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Mark Z. Barabak: 'That's a lie!' 'You are just jabbering!' It was heat and not much light in Newsom-DeSantis debate

People watch a debate between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during a watch party at Manny's on Nov. 30, 2023, in San Francisco, California.

The prodigiously hyped debate between Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis was never going to be more than a diversion, a brief sideshow running parallel to the main attraction — the actual campaign for the White House.

California's Democratic governor is not a candidate for president, as he has oft stated and reiterated several more times Thursday night.

Florida's governor running for the Republican nomination, but that he stooped to participate in a publicity stunt, dressed up as a national policy forum, that fairly reeked with the

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