The California governor has been trying to get his Florida Republican counterpart to engage. On Wednesday, he got it.
“Desantis should put up or shut up. Anything else is just games,” an aide to California Gov. Gavin Newsom said. | AP PhotoGovs. Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom have tentatively agreed to debate — one hosted by Fox News.
A showdown between the two seemed unlikely as DeSantis ramped up his presidential campaign. But Newsom still has spent months trying to entice his counterpart into joining him on a stage. An aide to Newsom told POLITICO that the governor was also in. Newsom’s office had sent a formal request offer to Fox News last week with proposed debate dates of Nov. 8 or Nov. 10. That request called for Hannity to serve as the sole moderator for a 90-minute forum on Fox News that would not include an in-studio audience and would air live.A debate would — to put it mildly — be an unpredicted event in modern presidential politics even in an age of seemingly endless cable news town halls.
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