Republican presidential hopeful and right-wing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has agreed to finally meet California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on the debate stage. Fox News host Sean Hannity will moderate the live debate.
Hannity on Wednesday played a clip from his June interview with Newsom where the governor said he was “all in” to debate his Florida counterpart before cutting to a smiling DeSantis, who appeared remotely.
“Absolutely,” DeSantis said in response to the challenge. “I’m game. Let’s get it done. Just tell me when and where.” After DeSantis’s “Hannity” appearance, a spokesperson for Newsom said the California governor already sent DeSantis a formal debate offer last Friday.Advertisement, he proposed a 90-minute debate moderated by Hannity and focused on “the impact of representation at the state level.” The Fox News-hosted event will have no live audience and will air live on Nov. 8 or 10 in a battleground state, either Georgia, Nevada or North Carolina.
The two governors have been locked in an escalating feud for the past year, taking shots at each other on topics such as immigration, abortion, gun rights and education, each portraying the policies and conditions in the other’s state as an indictment on their respective parties’ politics. While President Biden, who is seeking reelection next year, has often tried to strike a tone of unity in a divided country, Newsom has emerged as a Democratic leader willing to take the fight for high-stakes policies such as abortion and LGBTQ+ rights to Republicans. He has openly expressed frustration that Republican leaders like DeSantis and Texas Gov.
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