I’m not wild about Newsom, but I’d assume he’d stay calm while DeSantis became unhinged… at least I can hope.
But why the hell would Newsom agree to Hannity as an unbiased moderator? Hoping for air time (and a nomination if Biden croaks?), no matter what the setup, I assume.
Newsom challenged DeSantis to a debate on Hannity.
~Max
Newsom is an idiot.
AIUI Hannity asked Newsom if he’d debate DeSantis and Newsom immediately accepted. It’s been DeSantis holding back until now, but with the campaign in trouble and Newsom taunting him with “put up or shut up!” DeSantis has to accept in order to get some attention.
It’ll be interesting not so much for each stating their policy differences for considerate viewers to contemplate, but for the whole “Thunderdome” aspect of these two going at each other. Say what you will about Newsom, but he has shown no hesitation in calling out the MAGA lies or mixing it up with the likes of DeSantis. Ronny wont be able to hide, but he may have to back down.
It’d by funny as hell if Newsom chanted under his breath “woke woke woke woke…” whenever DeSantis blathered on with that nonsense.
Seriously. All Newsom has to do is ask DeSantis what “woke” means, since he is on a crusade to end it, then just sit back.
Say that five times fast.
“Newsom Mocks DeSantis with Duck Call”
“DeSantis Accuses Newsom of Quackery”
~Max
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck…
I’m picturing Ron going wild, gesturing and frothing, and Gavin just leans over the podium (and smirks at the camera of course), and says "“Oh, DO tell us more, Meatball…”
Ooh, maybe we can get this as a double bill, with the Musk vs Zuck cage match afterwards,
“Oh you know what it means, don’t sit there and lie and say you don’t.”
I think that’s all Ron has to say, as much BS as that answer is.
In a New Hampshire appearance, DeSantis "vowed that when it comes to federal bureaucrats, “we are going to start slitting throats on Day One.”
SelfDestructimonious, he is.
Here is another take on the Newsom-DeSantis debate:
Let’s be very clear about why this is happening: DeSantis’ presidential campaign is bleeding staff, money and support in the polls. He needs something, anything, to give his campaign life. Debating Newsom looks like an act of desperation because it is one.
Ron DeSantis losing to Newsom in a nationally televised debate would be campaign-ending stuff. Of course, when a candidate is doing as badly in the polls as DeSantis is right now, they have to take risks. But taking a risk of this magnitude for so little potential reward is a massive strategic blunder — not unlike the ones that put DeSantis in this position to begin with.
Central Florida is where the Disney complex is.
Trust in Ron, but count your fingers.
Yikes.
I hope Newsom holds out a pudding cup to him and says, “I forgot the spoon, but I hear you’re actually okay with that.”
DeSantis today said that “All those theories that were put out did not prove to be true.” Meaning the Big Lie theories. So he can’t quite come out and say Trump lied because then he’d lose MAGA votes, but he can’t agree with them either or he’ll lose people who dislike Trump. Poor Ronnie. /s
I’d pay to see that.
Ron DeSantis has moved his campaign manager to senior advisor and put his chief of staff in the spot. This seems like a big change for a hopeful POTUS, but he’s been shaking things up all week.
It’s a “not my fault, it’s your fault, here is a new person” thing. Typical politician.
nevermind
Shuffling but keeping your top advisers doesn’t seem like a huge shakeup. More like rearranging the deck chairs while the S.S. DeSantis continues listing heavily to starboard.