After Ron DeSantis debate, what’s next for Gavin Newsom ‘shadow campaign’?
The Fox News debate on Thursday between Florida governor Ron DeSantis and California governor Gavin Newsom was billed as the “Great Red vs Blue State debate,” a showdown between conservatism and liberalism itself.
But the spectre of the 2024 presidential election – and, well, maybe the 2028 one – hung over the conversation all night.
What exactly were these two men fighting for? And what comes next?
The immediate stakes were more urgent for Governor DeSantis, whose support in the 2024 presidential primary has dive-bombed since the beggining of the year to a measly 12 per cent. GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who’s been skipping the Republican debates and battling an onslaught of seemingly career-ended legal fights, has nearly six times the support.
It’s a fact.
