Posted on 12/01/2023 12:31:46 PM PST by Red Badger
(Daily Caller)—Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife stepped in to end a Thursday debate with Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to multiple reports.
Newsom and DeSantis participated in “The Great Red State vs. Blue State” debate in Alpharetta, Georgia, hosted by Fox News’ Sean Hannity, where two governors later agreed to extend the debate past its original 90 minute duration. Hannity ended the debate following a commercial break directly after the agreement was made in real time, during which Jennifer Siebel Newsom interjected on behalf of her husband, both Politico and NBC News reported, citing DeSantis aides as well as unaffiliated sources.
The DeSantis campaign confirmed the events to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Gavin Newsom got beat so badly last night his wife literally had to throw in the towel for him,” Andrew Romeo, communications director for the DeSantis campaign, told the DCNF. “It was embarrassing.”
However, Newsom aides have since denied that his wife was the reason for the debate ending, arguing that staffers from both governors mutually agreed to the decision, both Politico and NBC News reported.
The two governors sparred over their respective states’ policies, largely over the issues of crime, the economy and numerous social issues.
Newsom dismissed data that Hannity cited over his state’s violent crime rate being higher than both the national average and Florida’s, where he instead claimed that “we’re near 50 year lows, down 55% violent crimes in the state of California from the 1990s.”
“So this is the slick politician — you put up the rates. He has 500 per 100,000. Florida is 250. So that’s almost twice as much, and he’s trying to spin that to say California’s doing good? People are leaving California in droves, largely because public safety has collapsed,” DeSantis pushed back.
The Florida governor presented a map of human feces that he said represented the city of San Francisco, of which Newsom previously served as mayor of.
DeSantis also pressed Newsom on his presidential aspirations for 2024 earlier in the debate, asking, “Why don’t you just admit that you’re running?”
I forgot about that guy, funny commercials. What was his name again? Joe Salesman or something?
Joe Isuzu!..................real name actor David Liesure...........
why i don’t trust Kimberly Guillfoyle.
They aren’t married any more. Newsome has a new squeeze..................
Bingo I was trying to think of his name, Joe Isuzu. The commercials were more popular than their cars.
Weird thing on Hannity’s radio show he mentioned that the agreed upon extra 20 minutes was shut down, but Hannity pretended it was just Newsome’s aides, he never mentioned his wife and he had to know.
They might get an ashtray thrown at them.....................Hillary 2.0
Wow I haven’t heard of that story in Thousand Oaks and my sister lives there and usually I hear everything pertaining to that place.
The jury didn’t buy her story. Weistein’s attorneys argued that it was “transactional sex.”
Don't be an asshole. I'm a Trump supporter and have posted that Ron did a good job.
Not everyone is a one-sided jerk. Trying to start the old Trump - Cruz war?
who cares. both losers. just like host hannity. a circle jerk of losers
FR has a lot of folks with “All-or-Nothing” mentality which is clinically dysfunctional thinking.
Sheesh, where else do you go?
Our world including FR is simply becoming more dysfunctional. It’s OK because this is just another sign that Jesus is coming soon.
CA no longer investigates or prosecutes most crime, so it probably does not go into the statistics.
Shoplifting is probably at record lows in the statistics.
Didn’t we suffer enough having Hillary in that role? Now another one.
Never knew there was a “helicopter first lady” like a helicopter mother in school. Or maybe a Tiger Mom as first lady.
There was a pro israel protest on Thousand Oaks Blvd and Westlake Blvd and Paul Kessler went to confront the pro hamas freaks across the street and this man hit him with a bull horn which caused him to hit his head on the floor, he died a few hours later..I had no idea how many Arabs are in Thousand Oaks so it was well, surprising
He sure did.
“Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife stepped in to end a Thursday debate with Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to multiple reports.”
NO MAS, NO MAS!
Newsom is running for President in the Republican primary...?
You have a bunch of posts here about DeSantis’ footwear in recent weeks as just one of many examples of the nonsense he’s responding to.
There is a noisy bunch here that if Donald Trump took a dump on the rally stage and people questioned the veracity of such an act, we would be attacked as deep state, GOPe operatives. They even defended his use of the Dems’ Mediscare tactics.
Today on Hannity’s radio program, he hinted at backstage issues. Wasn’t going to discuss today put will probably go into details on future programs.
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