{"id":1957650,"date":"2023-06-26T19:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T23:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-walk-through-san-francisco-with-florida-governor-ron-desantis\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T19:44:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T23:44:25","slug":"a-walk-through-san-francisco-with-florida-governor-ron-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-walk-through-san-francisco-with-florida-governor-ron-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Governor Ron DeSantis strolls through San Francisco."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fa-walk-through-san-francisco-with-florida-governor-ron-desantis%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=1957650&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--><h2>The Rise of Ron DeSantis: A Walk Through San Francisco<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The following is a transcript excerpt from the Sunday Extra edition of Morning Wire. The full episode can he heard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\/ron-de-santis-2024-a-walk-through-san-francisco-6-25-23\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After months of speculation, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis entered the 2024 presidential race late last month and currently finds himself closer to former President Trump in the polls than the rest of the Republican field. Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley caught up with Governor DeSantis on the streets of San Francisco earlier this week to witness firsthand the twin crises of homelessness and the fentanyl epidemic. Along the way, they also encountered a group of police officers attempting to move some of the homeless people out of the area. Those officers approached the governor to thank him for his work. They then sat down in a nearby cafe afterwards for the rest of the interview.<\/p>\n<h3>BICKLEY:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Governor, we\u2019re here in the heart of San Francisco, behind enemy lines, if you will. We\u2019ve got a very progressive California and a very conservative Florida under your leadership. What are you hoping to see here in California? What are you trying to experience firsthand here?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>DESANTIS:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>I think what we\u2019re seeing is the failure of leftist policies. When we pulled in, I saw somebody defecating on the street. I think this is the urban defecation capital of America. You\u2019ve seen a city that used to be one of the best in the country in terms of vibrancy and prosperity. You\u2019ve seen it become hollowed out, as a direct result of leftist policy and ideology. It\u2019s sad. But, I can tell you I never saw a California license plate growing up in Florida. Then, I became governor, and especially in the aftermath of COVID, and we have Californians leaving San Francisco to go to Miami and other places. We like what we\u2019re doing. People appreciate it partly because it was intolerable to live in this area. They don\u2019t care about crime or homelessness. No one wants to live under those circumstances.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>BICKLEY:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>What are some different things you\u2019ve done in Florida, as opposed to California, that\u2019s keeping this kind of situation from happening?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>DESANTIS:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Whatever they do, we try to do the opposite on a lot of this stuff. They really facilitate increasing homelessness. They\u2019re very tolerant about illegal drug use, particularly in public. We will not countenance that. And their approach to criminal justice has been a total disaster. You cannot have somebody get into office and say, \u201cWe are not gonna prosecute criminals.\u201d That just doesn\u2019t work. And I\u2019ve talked to people that have moved to Florida from here and other parts of the country, and they say, \u201cSomeone mugged me,\u201d or \u201cThey robbed my car,\u201d or \u201cThey even broke into my home.\u201d No prosecution. Can you imagine that? Of course you\u2019re going to get more crime as a result. When you don\u2019t do those basics, the whole quality of life can collapse. The fact that that\u2019s happened here \u2014 in what would\u2019ve been one of the wealthiest areas in the entire world and probably was 10 years ago \u2014 shows you that the ideas we fight over matter. When we put our ideas into place in Florida, we thrived. When the Left wing ideas are put in here, the whole place crumbles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>BICKLEY:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>We have one of the hubs here of the homeless crisis, and we also have right here the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. And here, we have the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building on their front lawn. We\u2019ve seen a lot of really young drug addicts here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>DESANTIS:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s a little ironic. I mean, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has done a lot of damage in this country with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-agree-with-justice-barrett-jackson-dodges-on-court-packing-again\/\" title=\"\u2018I Agree With Justice Barrett\u2019: Jackson Dodges On Court-Packing Again\">left-wing rulings<\/a> over the years. It\u2019s gotten a little bit better, but it\u2019s still very far out there. And then of course, Pelosi\u2019s policies. In some respects, this is the logical culmination of the Pelosi liberalism that has been growing in San Francisco for many decades.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>(Police officers approaches Governor DeSantis)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>DESANTIS:<\/strong> Hey, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICER:<\/strong> It\u2019s a pleasure meeting you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DESANTIS:<\/strong> So, hey, good to see you, man. You\u2019re city police?<\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICER:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DESANTIS:<\/strong> How long have you been doing it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICER:<\/strong> 17 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DESANTIS:<\/strong> God bless you man. You got your work cut out for you here. How are you doing buddy? Thanks so much for your service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICER:<\/strong> Good luck, sir.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DESANTIS:<\/strong> We appreciate you guys. We appreciate you wearing the uniform.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICER:<\/strong> You\u2019ve got a fight coming up next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DESANTIS:<\/strong> Well if people aren\u2019t going to want a change in approach after seeing some of this, I mean, it\u2019s just sad. You guys deserve better support. It\u2019s unacceptable that you\u2019re going out there, risking your life \u2014 and like you can apprehend someone and they just let them go. It\u2019s absurd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICER:<\/strong> We appreciate it, sir. Have a great day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DESANTIS:<\/strong> Thank you. Great to see you guys.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>(After our walk and talk on the streets of San Francisco, we sat down in a nearby cafe to resume our conversation.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>BICKLEY:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Governor, I have to bring up the fact that police officers spontaneously came up and shook your hand. I just want to process that for a second. What do you think is going on there? We\u2019re in San Francisco \u2014 why are they enthusiastic about a Republican governor? What are they excited about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>DESANTIS:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Well, they\u2019ve personally lived through the BLM riots, which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-walk-through-san-francisco-with-florida-governor-ron-desantis\/\" title=\"Florida Governor Ron DeSantis strolls through San Francisco.\">local officials effectively facilitated<\/a> and urged on. They\u2019ve seen weak-on-crime policies where they\u2019ll apprehend some criminal, and then [local officials] just won\u2019t prosecute them for really serious crimes. In Florida, we\u2019ve stood for law and order across the board. If a cop in San Francisco isn\u2019t being treated well, we recruit them to Florida, and they get a $5,000 signing bonus if they come to our state. We\u2019re proud of that. Our crime rate in Florida\u2019s at a 50 year low. Obviously that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening here in San Francisco. In the heart of the BLM riots, I was one of the few guys willing to say, \u201cWe stand with the people that wear the uniform. We\u2019re not gonna tolerate rioting; we\u2019re not gonna do this.\u201d At that time, it was more fashionable to act like the police were the problem, and we never bought into that In Florida.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>BICKLEY:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>On a federal level, how do you think you could make the environment for law enforcement more positive?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>DESANTIS:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>There\u2019s probably a few levers you can pull, but basically to target these Soros funded prosecutors who get elected like they did here in San Francisco on a platform to not enforce laws they dislike. So I\u2019ve met people who lived in San Francisco. They had their homes broken into, they went to the cops, and cops apprehended the guy. \u201cDo you want to press charges?\u201d \u201cOf course we do,\u201d they responded. \u201cWell, they\u2019re not gonna prosecute, you know that.\u201d How would they not prosecute someone who breaks into your home? And so that\u2019s what ends up happening. And that\u2019s really a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nc-judge-delays-release-of-body-camera-footage-of-andrew-brown-jr-shooting-to-public\/\" title=\"NC Judge Delays Release Of Body Camera Footage Of Andrew Brown Jr. Shooting To Public\">civil rights crisis<\/a> for average people here because if the law is not enforced, you basically have anarchy reigning supreme. There\u2019s a lot of reasons why San Francisco\u2019s gone downhill. Covid lockdowns were devastating here. They overdid it for so long; it was draconian. You obviously have bad tax and regulatory policies, but I think criminal justice \u2014 not having public safety is \u2014 is really the root. If people don\u2019t feel safe, they\u2019re not going to want to be here. That\u2019s why so many people have fled San Francisco \u2014 because that\u2019s just the threshold that if you don\u2019t reach, people are gonna get out of Dodge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>LISTEN: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\/ron-de-santis-2024-a-walk-through-san-francisco-6-25-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catch the full interview with Governor Ron DeSantis on the Sunday Extra edition of Morning Wire.<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3>BICKLEY:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>You know, we heard the same kind of sentiment from the activists we talked to that are on the ground trying to work with the homeless crisis and the drug crisis. One of the things they brought up is actually the intersection of illegal immigration and crime issues here, and that the fentanyl crisis is driven a lot by the illegal immigration problem. You\u2019ve taken a lot of aggressive action on illegal immigration and actually had some public spats with Governor Newsom over that. Can you talk about that some?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>DESANTIS:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>There\u2019s no question that what Biden\u2019s allowed to happen at the border is killing Americans with fentanyl. In fact, I\u2019ve been on the streets here in San Francisco for like 10 minutes, and I\u2019ve seen defecation on the streets. We\u2019ve seen crack cocaine used openly on the streets, and we\u2019ve seen fentanyl use openly on the streets. This has really got a vice grip around this community. Part of it\u2019s because the government facilitates it, and they think it\u2019s good to let people do this. But, yes, the border\u2019s been a huge problem for a lot of reasons, but fentanyl is probably the most deadly. Our view in Florida is that we will help at the border. We\u2019re doing that. We\u2019re not a sanctuary state. We\u2019ve banned sanctuary cities. If you bring in illegals from the border and smuggle them into Florida, we\u2019re going to hold you accountable. We\u2019ve even authorized funds to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-should-not-help-biden-destroy-border-security\/\" title=\"Conservatives Should Not Help Biden Destroy Border Security\">transport illegal aliens<\/a> to sanctuary jurisdictions, whether it\u2019s Martha\u2019s Vineyard or whether it\u2019s California. And I\u2019ll tell you that part of the reason they want to go to California is because they know they\u2019re going to get benefits in California. And so California has made themselves a sanctuary state, and they\u2019re basically incentivizing people to come illegally. As president, we\u2019ll crack down on sanctuary cities nationwide and sanctuary states, and we\u2019ll pull every lever we have because I think what they\u2019re doing is flouting the law. The border, though, we\u2019ll do on day one, and we\u2019ll marshal all the assets: military, a civilian, you name it. We\u2019ve been talking about this in conservative circles for decades, and yet it\u2019s never been fixed. We\u2019ll bring it to a conclusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>BICKLEY:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Speaking of sanctuary states, California also defines itself as now a transgender sanctuary state. Florida has taken a very different sort of approach to this, through a lot of new policies. What would you do differently federally speaking, in terms of handling the transgender policies?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>DESANTIS:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>In Florida, we said \u201cno <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elliot-page-matrix-director-lilly-wachowski-back-aclu-lawsuit-protecting-sex-change-operations-for-transgender-children\/\" title=\"Elliot Page, 'Matrix' Director Lilly Wachowski Back ACLU Lawsuit Protecting Sex Change Operations for Transgender Children\">sex change operations<\/a>, sterilization, or puberty blockers for minors.\u201d They are sterilizing these kids and taking off their private parts \u2014 and they\u2019re minors. And what we found is as some of these kids get older, they have huge problems as a result of this. Many of them have huge regrets. And so we\u2019re saying, \u201cWe\u2019re not doing it in Florida.\u201d What does California do? Not only do they welcome that type of mutilation, they encourage kids, behind their parents\u2019 backs, to go from other jurisdictions where they don\u2019t have the ability to get this type of gender surgery and come to California to do it as minors. I think it\u2019s totally outrageous that that\u2019s happening. What they\u2019re also doing in California, is they want to tell a parent, \u201cIf you have a kid and the kid says, \u2018I know I was born a boy. I\u2019m 12, maybe I think I\u2019m a girl now.\u2019 If you don\u2019t accept that, you could lose custody of your kid.\u201d That\u2019s what they\u2019re debating right now. I think it\u2019s probably gonna end up passing just knowing the politics here, but how outrageous is that? So that\u2019s a massive attack on parental rights, and I think the modern Left thinks parents have a small role in the upbringing of their kid. And if there\u2019s a clash between leftist ideology and parental rights, they want the leftist ideology to trump the rights of the parents. In Florida, we completely reject that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>BICKLEY:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Now you\u2019ve gotten some pushback for your policies, specifically about parental rights. Some people have accused you of being kind of authoritarian in a sort of a strong government approach. How would you defend your policies?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>DESANTIS:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Well, if you look over the last three or four years, we took more action to limit government involvement in people\u2019s lives by eliminating COVID lockdowns. We would go into local communities, and I would overrule them. And I would say, \u201cYou can\u2019t force masks. You can\u2019t force kids to be locked out of school. You can\u2019t force businesses to close.\u201d To me, I think those are actions that promote freedom. I don\u2019t think those are authoritarian at all. I think what some people on the Left get frustrated with is the fact that we are successful in enacting policies. But I\u2019m getting this stuff through the legislature. That\u2019s the way the constitutional system works. We say, \u201cWe want a parent\u2019s bill of rights.\u201d We work with the legislature, they deliver it and put it on my desk, and I sign it. We say, \u201cParents\u2019 Rights in Education,\u201d and we fought Disney to say, \u201cNo gender ideology in the schools.\u201d Legislature passes it, I sign it, and it goes into law. That\u2019s the way it should be done. We\u2019ve taken very strong action to protect and expand people\u2019s freedom, and ultimately, that\u2019s the name of the game.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>BICKLEY:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>As president, could you carry over some of those policies, on a federal level?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>DESANTIS:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>I think so. First of all, Washington\u2019s different from a state; there\u2019s no question about that. The swamp and the bureaucracy are way more entrenched. But, you know that going in. One of the things I did as governor before I got in, I had a compendium of all the powers of the governor: statutory, constitutional, and customary. So, I knew which levers to push. Same thing\u2019s gonna happen as president. We\u2019ll know Article II, we\u2019ll know all the statutory powers \u2014 every little piece of leverage we have. And what you say is, \u201cOkay, I\u2019ve got this agenda, but I\u2019ve got to get it through a constitutional system.\u201d So what levers can you pull to be able to advance it? We\u2019ll be very active. On day one, spitting nails, we\u2019ll be on offense. And we\u2019re not going to just sit like a potted plant, like some of these Republicans, hoping that good things happen; we\u2019re gonna make these things happen. The good news is while the problems are more severe than what we deal with at the state level, I think your power to counteract them is greater as president. You have the powers and the bully pulpit, and you can really put issues on the agenda in a big way. We did that in Florida to great effect, but a governor is more limited in terms of the reach that he has. So, we\u2019ll be using all tools at our disposal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>BICKLEY:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Final question: What wins the 2024 election? What argument or quality wins it? Democrat or Republican, what\u2019s the deciding factor?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>DESANTIS:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>If the election is a referendum on Biden\u2019s failures, and we frame it that way with a candidate like me offering a better path for America, we will win the election. If it becomes a referendum on side issues or other things, and Biden\u2019s allowed to stay in his basement all campaign like he did last time, then I fear that the Democrats will be able to win. So focusing on his failures, how he\u2019s made America worse, and how we\u2019re gonna do it better, not only will you get Republicans, you\u2019re going to get these independents. That\u2019s what we did in Florida, and we won independents by 18 percentage points. We won over 60% of Hispanics because we were identifying the issues that mattered to them. We were fighting the fringe left on all the things they\u2019re trying to do. And I think there\u2019s a huge majority coalition for that. People want a restoration of sanity in this country, and we can deliver that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>BICKLEY:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Governor, thank you so much.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>DESANTIS:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Thank you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Extra edition of Morning Wire featured a transcript excerpt. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis joined the 2024 presidential race, sparking months of speculation. Surprisingly, he is now polling closer to former President Trump than other Republican candidates. 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