Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seems to think he’s going to be the next governor of California.

“NEW POLL: Nearly 60% of the electorate WOULDN’T vote for Kamala Harris for Governor,” Bianco declared on X on Wednesday. “Californians are fed up. We’ve have had enough of the high taxes, high gas prices and high crime. We’re going to bring real change to Sacramento.”

As readers of these pages know, this editorial board certainly agrees that taxes are too high, that the state’s high energy costs are the result of well-intended but misguided policies and that the Democratic supermajority has been slow to respond to legitimate concerns about crime.

But there’s no serious reason to believe Bianco has a real shot of being the one to change things.

The poll Bianco refers to is a recently released one from the University of California, Irvine School of Social Ecology.

The poll did indeed ask Californians who they would pick between former Vice President Kamala Harris and a generic Republican, with the two other options being “Wouldn’t vote” and “Don’t Know.”

In that scenario, Harris got 41% support and the generic Republican got 26% of the vote, with 16% saying they don’t know how they’d vote and 14% saying they wouldn’t vote.

The poll then asked about the broader set of candidates, but bizarrely excluded Republican Fox News personality Steve Hilton, leaving Republicans with Bianco and the unknown Kyle Langford as the Republican candidates.

Even then, just 10% of Republicans said they’d back Bianco, with 27% saying they’d prefer Democrat Rick Carus and 38% saying they don’t know who they’d back.

Even here in the Inland Empire, just 10% said they’d pick Bianco, with 25% saying they’d pick Harris and 11% saying they’d pick Caruso.

A solid two-thirds of Californians indicated they’d never even heard of Bianco.

Once many Californians learn of Bianco’s record of overseeing a sheriff’s department legitimately sued left and right for misconduct and historic numbers of jail deaths and fundamentally being a local deputy union puppet, he’s toast.

There’s no serious case for Bianco unless you value style over substance — and have a poor sense of style.