{"id":1948550,"date":"2023-06-15T19:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T23:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-torches-newsom-over-debate-challenges-stop-pussyfooting-around-and-get-in-presidential-race\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T19:04:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T23:04:01","slug":"desantis-torches-newsom-over-debate-challenges-stop-pussyfooting-around-and-get-in-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-torches-newsom-over-debate-challenges-stop-pussyfooting-around-and-get-in-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Torches Newsom Over Debate Challenges: \u2018Stop Pussyfooting Around\u2019 And Get In Presidential Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-torches-newsom-over-debate-challenges-stop-pussyfooting-around-and-get-in-presidential-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1948550&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed California Governor Gavin Newsom for repeatedly trying to elevate his own national profile by challenging DeSantis to a debate, saying that Newsom needed to \u201cstop pussyfooting around\u201d and get in the presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis made the remarks in response to a question from a reporter during a press conference on Wednesday over pro-Trump Fox News host Sean Hannity egging on Newsom to debate DeSantis, while knowing that DeSantis had already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ron-desantis-responds-to-gavin-newsoms-debate-challenge\">downplayed<\/a> the idea last year when Hannity interviewed the Florida governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m all in. Count on it,\u201d Newsom <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4046739-newsom-says-hed-agree-to-a-debate-against-desantis-moderated-by-hannity\/\">told<\/a> Hannity, saying that he would agree to a three-hour debate with only \u201cone day\u2019s notice with no notes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis chuckled in response,\u00a0\u201cYou know, it\u2019s interesting. He\u2019s got huge problems in his state. I mean, like, huge problems in his state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, you see it in San Francisco, you see it in L.A., you see it in the people fleeing,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cCalifornia, from its inception, gained population every single year until he became governor. I mean, California was probably the height of opportunity for middle class Americans for many, many decades in this country. No one would leave there, you know, you would go, people were drawn to there, and yet, he\u2019s the first governor that\u2019s overseen a massive exodus out of California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said that people understand why those who live in places with bad weather would want to move to Florida, but that if you\u2019re living in Southern California and you decide to move to Florida, it\u2019s because of how bad the Democrat-controlled state and local governments are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd yet with all those problems, he has a real serious fixation on the state of Florida,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cI mean, I think it\u2019s just bizarre that he does that. But what I would tell him is, you know, what, stop pussyfooting around. Are you going to throw your hat in the ring and challenge Joe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you going to get in and do it, or are you just going to sit on the sidelines and chirp?\u201d he continued. \u201cSo why don\u2019t you throw your hat in the ring, and then we\u2019ll go ahead and talk about what\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DESANTIS responds to Gavin Newsom:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has a real, serious fixation on Florida, but what I would tell him is \u2026 stop pussyfooting around. Are you going to throw your hat in the ring and challenge Joe? Or are you going to sit on the sidelines and chirp? Why don&#8217;t you throw your\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WGKDPMXKtD\">pic.twitter.com\/WGKDPMXKtD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DeSantis War Room \ud83d\udc0a (@DeSantisWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeSantisWarRoom\/status\/1669349369899024387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed California Governor Gavin Newsom for repeatedly trying to elevate his own national profile by challenging DeSantis to a debate, saying that Newsom needed to \u201cstop pussyfooting around\u201d and get in the presidential race. DeSantis made the remarks in response to a question from a reporter during a press conference on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1948551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4711,5533,3896,4980,3678,3849,28776,5069,5410,6865],"class_list":["post-1948550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-around","tag-challenges","tag-debate","tag-desantis","tag-newsom","tag-presidential","tag-pussyfooting","tag-race","tag-stop","tag-torches"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}