After Florida Republican Governor and GOP presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis accepted his challenge to debate, Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom belittled his wannabe opponent for making demands to cut down on the opportunity for DeSantis to make more gaffs, Politico reports.
After an earlier report on the demands for the two to debate–for which Sean Hannity will be moderator–noted that it will like happen in early November in Georgia if it happens at all, the two camps diverged: Newsom wanted a closed debate stage to DeSantis wanting cheering sections; Newsom wanted opening statements, while DeSantis wanted videos shown.
Newsom spokesperson Nathan Click released a statement calling out some of the DeSantis demands: “What a joke. Desantis’ counterproposal is littered with crutches to hide his insecurity and ineptitude — swapping opening statements with a hype video, cutting down the time he needs to be on stage, adding cheat notes and a cheering section. Ron should be able to stand on his own two feet. It’s no wonder Trump is kicking his ass.”