This should be entertaining.
Gives both a stage that they can/hope to build on; gives Hannity a chance to come back at Fox (?) or at least thumb his nose at them one more time.
Ron DeSantis agrees to debate Gavin Newsom on Fox News - POLITICO
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Ron DeSantis agrees to debate Gavin Newsom on Fox News
The California governor has been trying to get his Florida Republican counterpart to engage. On Wednesday, he got it.
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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.
“Desantis should put up or shut up. Anything else is just games,” the aide said.
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. For DeSantis, it would provide a new venue and opponent to contrast his record in Florida after spending weeks bogged down in process stories about layoffs; tightened campaign budgets, and nervous GOP donors.
Newsom, should a debate happen, would feel the weight of his political party on his shoulders under a national spotlight brighter than he’s experienced before. Like he did opposite Hannity in a recent sitdown interview, he would be forced to defend attacks about the progressive policies in his own state as well as President Joe Biden’s record.
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