Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom will face off tonight in what is sure to be an epic red-state vs. blue-state debate. The debate over how red states and blue states govern is one that we should be having, and I’m certainly looking forward to it.
Unfortunately, I expect that an honest discussion about conservative and liberal governance is impossible. Earlier this week, I predicted that Trump supporters would inevitably pan Ron DeSantis’s performance at the debate because they want to strike a death blow to his presidential campaign, even at the expense of advancing the case for red-state governance.
I was somewhat wrong in my prediction. Trumpsters didn’t even bother waiting for the debate to pan DeSantis’s performance and “predict” that it would end his presidential campaign.
“It’s a big problem. He’s not a good debater, he’s had a rough time debating two weak opponents in each gubernatorial race,” WOR radio host Mark Simone and Trump ally told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow on Wednesday. “He’s not good at it. In this case, it is a no-brainer, 1000%, the facts are on his side. But he is a bad…
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