DeSantis Rips Newsom After California Governor Tries To Save Face Following Televised Debate Blowout

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California Governor Gavin Newsom appeared on late night television on
Wednesday to bash Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after getting walloped by the
Republican presidential candidate during a recent debate.

The Newsom-DeSantis debate, hosted by Fox News personality Sean Hannity, got
so out of control that Newsom’s wife had to intervene to prevent it from
going into overtime because Newsom was getting embarrassed, pundits said.
Newsom’s team later claimed that the debate was “rigged.”

“I’m dead serious about this. I have developed a lot of animus towards him
because of his animus towards all of you,” Newsom claimed. “You know, this
guy’s out there scapegoating vulnerable communities. He’s attacking
minorities, attacking women, and I don’t like it. And I wanted to push back
against it. And I felt like the party was a little timid on all this. I mean,
you know, he’s out there talking about anti-woke, and I mean this, for me,
it’s not anti-woke. What he really means is anti-black.”

“He’s out there censoring historic facts, he’s rewriting history,” Newsom
claimed. “He was out there, you know, he eliminated AP African American
Studies. He said slavery was somehow some workforce development program. And
he doubled down on that. So for me, it’s a very serious moment where I just
felt it was important to blow back against that, against that narrative, and
hold these guys accountable on a network where they don’t hear from guys like
me ever.”

Newsom’s claims about DeSantis attacking women and minorities were not
supported by any evidence and his claims about Florida’s African American
history curriculum was inaccurate at best.

The DeSantis War Room responded to Newsom’s remarks by saying: “Americans
know that DeSantis has succeeded where Newsom has failed. And when Democrats
have nothing substantive to say, they default to accusations of ‘racism.'”

“No wonder why Newsom’s wife had to throw the towel in for him during the
Hannity debate,” the statement added.

Gavin Newsom says he’s developed a lot of animus toward Ron DeSantis.

Newsom lists all his reasons, saying that when DeSantis says he’s
“anti-woke,” what he really means is he’s anti-Black.
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— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) December 14, 2023

[Oh, the irony!]

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