Fitness mogul Jake Steinfeld seriously considers run for California governor after losing home to wildfires

"There's a good chance that I'm going to run for governor of California," Steinfeld said. 

"I'm meeting with a lot of different people, and there's a good, strong interest."

"In order to get a permit to do something, it takes you weeks and months and sometimes a year to rebuild, to do something, to put a roof on something," Steinfeld said. 

"It's insane."

He criticized state and local leaders for their handling of the crisis.

"You hear the mayor and the governor, all they're chirping about is we're at lightspeed, things are at lightspeed," he said. 

"I say, come on out. Come on out and take a walk with me, right. And I'll show you."

"This time they've sunk to a new low - exploiting the victims of the LA fires for political gain," the governor said in an official response.

Steinfeld, best known for his fitness empire, has also appeared in films like "Coming to America" (1988) and voiced a character in Disney's "Ratatouille" (2007). Originally from Brooklyn, he moved to California at 18 to chase his dreams.

"California is that place where dreams come true," he said. 

"Unfortunately, today, that dream has gone up in smoke-both literally and figuratively."

If he runs, Steinfeld said he would do so as a Republican, arguing that California has lost its way.

"It's got to stop," he said. 

"Because that dream of California and what California was and what it is today, it's just not there."