California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made the right choice to withdraw from the Republican race and may have saved his future.
Newsom disagreed when asked on MSNBC whether his cross-border rival had ruined his political career by not running for president in 2024.
“I wish he would have continued,” Newsom said.[DeSantis] He will be beaten in his own state. ”
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom. ((Fox News/Getty))
Newsom too reacted to the video DeSantis recently shared a video of his young son getting his NFL playoff predictions on X.
“On a human level, having just spent a little bit of time with him and obviously been studying him for a while, he's a different person,” Newsom told MSNBC's Alex Wagner. . “I just saw a video of him with a kid and I was like, 'Who is that?'
“He was very hurt,” Newsom continued about DeSantis on the trail. “I'm not happy. And you can say what you want about Trump. He seems to have calmed down a little bit. He's calmed down in terms of his rhetoric, but he's gotten a little more interesting in that way. You have to know why. I never felt like he had a reason.”
Mr. Newsom later criticized other Republican presidential candidates for believing they could somehow “outdo Mr. Trump” with the former president still in the race. Over the past year, all but Nikki Haley have been eliminated one by one.
“Now that President Trump is on the campaign trail, were you going to somehow deconstruct and connect Trumpism with President Trump and obsess over it and try to take that away from him?” Newsom said. Said.
“The premise is rather — and I don't mean a cheap shot — rather delusional,” he added. “Maybe you didn't think he would run away. Maybe you thought he would be convicted of a crime sooner. I don't know what they were thinking. , it was so predictable. All of this was predictable.”
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Newsom criticized Republican presidential candidates for believing that they can somehow “outperform Trump” with the former president still in the race. (Screenshot from MSNBC)
“When it comes to Nikki Haley, I don't know any states she can win, let alone her own state,” Newsom said. [of South Carolina]. ”
Trump defeated Haley by 10 points in the New Hampshire primary, following a landslide victory in the Iowa caucuses that prompted DeSantis to quit the race.
In New Hampshire, Ms. Haley won by a 24-point margin over a political moderate, but Mr. Trump won by the same margin (up 24 points) over a self-described “moderate conservative.” He boosted his score among very conservative voters (+68 points).
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Fox News' polling department contributed to this report.
