and welcome to this special of hannity. happy new year. now, tonight for the full hour, we ll highlight some of our big interviews from 2023. we start tonight with highlights from the first ever red state blue state debate between florida governor ron desantis and california governor gavin newsom. taka govern santis ae a look.t star well, let s get started. everybody ready? te all we are as we speak, theres is a phenomenon that is playings out across the entire country. americans, they are leavingr blue states in droves, in favor of red states. you can see numbers on the screestatesyou cas n rigm the year 2021 and 2022. these particularyears numbersst are stark. in the state that you lead sa in the castee, you, governor newsom, according to the u.s. census, this is where the numbers come from. ,e in 2021, 2022, california, california s lost 750,000 residents to other states. governor desantis, during that same two year period, you gained 454,000 residents0 re from oth
people while exempting himself from thoses ow restrictions and going to the french laundry while his people werh laune. lt he led the country in school closures, lockinheryg kids out of school while he had his own kids in private school in person. now, he s very good at spinning these these talehe s vending ts he s good at being slick and slippery heels. he wd of lies failur to be able to try to mask the failures. but the reality is they failedee because of his leftist ideology and the choice os leftis for am. this what biden and harris and newsom want to d harris ao is take the california model and do that nationally. modelin florida, we showed we h that conservative principles work. this country must choose freedom over failure. governor newsom, your reaction? well, it s good to be with your show. with you ande in a to se tie as well-connected to be with you, ron. and i imagin to e gassed up for the occasion, governor, that no, i m impressed and i m grateful. look it s an important
you had quarantines, you had quarantines, your checkpoints wy all over the state of florida. by the way, i didn t say that donald trump laid you outht on this day. right. you did that. you followed science. owedyou followed factually, godc answer. he followed science. he followets. ed sciend support. you know, he won leave all on you promoting lower taxes. you were open, you weren. promoting vaccines. you even wore a mask and tells you are closed. if it s if it s okay with you. well, why were you why don t we do this in a way where we both can have why are you supposed to be so long? all you know, let to bring september 2020. de he did all of that until he decided to fall prey to thefi fringe of his party. and as a consequence of that run, tens of thousands of people lost their lives. the equivalent if i had to your policies, the equivalent of ten 9/11, tens of thousands people lost their lives. and for what, ron? those are more lives. in facfor wh?t, the lancet just. a study