Appears on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, a conduit into the former president’s bloodstream

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Trump’s America, California Gov. Gavin Newsom seemed to enjoy trolling Republican presidential nominee Ron DeSantis.

Newsom said Trump will “clean his clock” in the GOP presidential primaries and immediately accepted Hannity’s challenge to debate Florida’s conservative governor. DeSantis fired back three days later, saying Newsom has a “bizarre” fixation on Florida

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needs to “stop walking around with a fuss” and run for president. Hours later, the DeSantis campaign began selling T-shirts with that slogan for $34.47.

The problem for DeSantis: Every time he waves back at Newsom, he gets into a fight with the wrong guy.

Employees at Newsom and DeSantis agree that there is no greater political antagonism

in America

right now than california and florida, and their

respectively

governors. But for now, the rivalry benefits one man more than the other.

DeSantis is campaigning for president in 2024, and rather than “knock down” in a fight with a governor, he’d do better sparring with candidates on his way to the White House: Trump and President Biden,

according to said

Nick Iarossi, a Tallahassee lobbyist and informal adviser to DeSantis.

“Newsom has been someone who is like a gnat or gnat in your face and is just trying to annoy you and get attention to distract from what’s really going on in his own state,” Iarossi said.

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comments, trying to appear presidential. Still, they celebrate every time DeSantis takes the bait, raising Newsom’s national profile and giving him a chance to fight DeSantis in a way that helps Biden in the presidential race.

“All Newsom does is tell him he got under his skin, and Newsom can keep stalling,” said Jim DeBoo,

the former Chief of Staff to the Governor of California. Newsom’s former chief of staff.

During the Fox News interview

,

this month, Newsom offered a full defense of

President

Biden’s “two-pronged” record as commander in chief. He slammed Hannity’s claims that Biden

is not was not mentally cognitive

able to run again

at his age

and praised the president’s work to boost the semiconductor industry, his infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act.

While acknowledging California’s homelessness crisis,

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pushed back on the GOP’s constant attacks

both

he and

the state of California

brag about

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thriving economy and challenging the argument that more Californians are fleeing to Florida than the other way around.

“With all due respect, Florida isn’t even close,” Newsom said. “Eat your heart out, Texas. California remains the dominant economic engine for the American [people].”

Newsom’s performance drew national praise from Democrats and some Republicans. DeSantis’ decision to

respond in kind

and his answer shows he’s “not ready for prime time,” DeBoo said. “He answered like a sixth grade bully would have answered something, unlike a presidential candidate.”

said DeBoo.

Iarossi claims that DeSantis’

last

response made sense to try to rouse GOP voters in California on the eve of a fundraising trip to the Golden State. Iarossi said DeSantis raised more money in California than

in

every other state

in the country

including Florida, in the

First

24 hours after launching his campaign.

DeSantis

on Monday

released a campaign video on Monday

drawing attention to a “major experiment in governance philosophy” between the two states and dragging on California’s crime, homelessness crisis and population decline. The next day, huh released another video of himself “in the once great city of San Francisco.”

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“We came in here and we saw people shitting on the street,” said DeSantis,

standing next to

on a sidewalk littered with trash. “We saw people using heroin. We saw people smoking crack cocaine, and if you look around, the city isn’t buzzing anymore. It’s really collapsed because of leftist policies.”

Iarossi said the

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juxtaposition

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for example, shows DeSantis why his conservative management style works. It’s also a smarter game for DeSantis than the

straight away

back and forth

straight away

with Newsum.

“I don’t expect there to be any focus on Gavin Newsom going forward,” Iarossi said. “There’s really no reason to get caught up in a fight with a governor of another state when you’re looking for the next president of the United States.”

Democrats view Newsom’s efforts nationally as helping the party and helping Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris win re-election.

“The biggest problem we had for a long time was that DeSantis had remarkably high name recognition across the country, but people didn’t know about him,” said Celinda Lake, a D.C. Democratic strategist. “They had no idea of ​​the policies DeSantis passed and the extreme positions he took.”

Newsom is pulling that out for voters across the country, she said.

The governor of California has loudly criticized DeSantis for banning instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida schools.

legislation that critics refer to as what critics call a

“Don’t say gay.”

law. https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1668844447470358528?s=20

DeSantis went to war with Disney and took control of government services in the Disney World theme park district after the company publicly opposed the law. Newsom posted a video of herself at Disneyland in Anaheim

recently

watching the first ever LGBTQ+ “Pride Night”.

Newsom called DeSantis a short, pathetic man and threatened kidnapping charges after his government helped transport migrants from Texas to California. In the Fox interview, he wondered what kind of faith tradition supports

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move people from one state to another and dehumanize them in an attempt to score political points.

The way in which

National Democrats

are now

crawling over Newsom marks a change from last year, when

Hey Newsom

ruffled feathers for saying the

Democratic

party did not do enough to push back on the

Republican GOP

agenda and fueling national interest in his presidential ambitions.

“I think some people were frustrated, and now I think most people are very happy,” Lake said. “He did it

in it

such an engaging and accessible way, and it really helped define DeSantis, which was an important business.”

Newsom has made it his personal mission to highlight and combat far-right policies.

The governor made headlines across the country a year ago when he ran a reelection ad in Florida

Comparison of laws in red states and California on abortion, banned books, and other topics. In April, DeSantis signed a bill banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The California Constitution guarantees the right to an abortion, and Newsom has invited women from other states to attend

here

for services prohibited elsewhere.

He also screwed DeSantis when Newsom donated $100,000 through the California Democratic Party to a political action committee in support of Charlie Crist, the Democratic challenger in Florida’s 2022 gubernatorial election.

Newsom formalized his fight against the GOP this spring, transferring $10 million of his state campaign funds to a new federal PAC, the Campaign for Democracy, which he said he founded to help Democrats in the 2024 election and support Republican leaders. reduce.

He has also played the role of Biden surrogate since the president announced his intention to run for re-election.

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On his recent trip to California, Newsom said that “no president in modern American history has done more” to address climate change.

than Biden.

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co-hosted a presidential fundraiser in Marin County.

Newsom made a point

from denying to denying

any interest in the White House even louder than before. In the interview with Hannity, he refused to take the host’s bait and talk about whether he had been begged to run.

Although Newsom is not in the 2024 presidential race,

said Iarossi

it would be “game on” if he jumps

sed

in

said Iarossi

.

“You have two governors of two big, powerful states, who have completely opposite political philosophies and leadership styles,” Iarossi said. “It was going to be a battle over the future of America and which way we’re going.”

Don’t rule out that matchup in 2028.