and welcome to hannity. and tonight, we are broadcasting live just nortand we ating liv norh of ate in alpharetta, georgia, where in justta, wheret a moment, we g to hear from the republican governor of florid a the democratic governor of the great state of california. what ie s the first ever red state blue state debate right here on the fox newswe wil channel? now, we will do our best to give equal time to each governor. our besequal to eachwe will lw seconds per question. we ll be a littlile as needed. let the debate breathe as needed along with a 32nd time for rebuttal. leh a 32ndt me start by introdug both florida governor ron desantis, governor gavin newsom. governors, thank you both for being here. really appreciate it. great to be on. i knowi know both of you person, i ve known you both for a long time. i know you re very bustime. y. i also know this.t i know that both of yobou loveth individual states. i know you both have a deep and abiding love for our country as i
a coin toss. i was not part of it. i missed it. but apparentlyit., governor newsom, you won the coin toss and you chos erst to let governor desantis have the first question. you will get the last word tonigh ast wordt. so i begin with you. you know, for governor newsom,.n i will ask, you know, what your response is on this as well. e s what he is it s a simple question. how do you explain this i phenomenon. what governor, what s going on? when i wass goin in the navy, i orders to go to a naval amphibious base, coronado in souther to n california.lifo and i was a lifelong floridian, but i went there and i was like, marniafloridhere andn, the most beautiful places on earth. and i think california has more natural earth advantages than the any state in the country. you almost have to try to mess california up. yeah, that s what gavin newsom has done since ewsom ha he s been governor. he s the first governor to ever lose population. nor to ethey actually at one pon out of you u-haul
states. so governor desantis, we had a coin toss. i was not part of it. i missed it. apparently governor newsom won the coin toss. you chose to let governor desantis have the first question. you will get the last word tonight. i begin with you. for governor newsom i will ask what your response is on this as well. it s a simple question. how do you explain this phenomenon? governor, what is going on? when i was in the navy i got orders to go to a naval amphibious base in southern california and i was a lifelong floridian. i went there and i said this is one of the most beautiful places on earth. california has more natural advantages than any state in the country. you almost have to try to mess california up. that is what gavin newsom has done since he has been governor. he s the first governor to ever lose population. they actually at one point ran out of you halls in the state of california because so many people were leaving. he has imposed restrictions on
to wait for evacuation orders to leave. you can leave now. of course, people can leave whenever they want. john, i think what we have to think about here is personal responsibility too. man, i m a lifelong floridian, and many of us heard the warnings and made the conscious decision to stay. based on years of seeing these kinds of storms coming through. part of the challenge, commissioner, is what a government says, what a government says to its own people. i completely get your point. we had a lot of resources in tampa. i want to put up these two maps that are in the new york times today. if you look at monday s 8:00 a.m. forecast, it was completely out of the water. even to the left, the storm surge in lee county was 4 to 7 feet. then you see the map on the right where the actual path again moved it over some.
education, policy. they defy the political norm to characterize your opponent. that s because he s done such a great job. his covers are extraordinary for sitting governor. i m a lifelong floridian and a florida voter, our primary is on tuesday, and he couldn t care less who wins because he prevails either way. he has a double-digit lead and i think it speaks to the store in a leadership that president trump set, saying the republican party needs to go this way, and a governor who followed and said he would listen. lisa: that s a good point about the ads. that is so smart. we have school board races as well, democrats have a primary at the top of the ticket so they ll be out, so republicans need to show up. kayleigh: and he is in the school board races, which governors do not do. kennedy: coming up, president biden s energy secretary has an out of touch pitch to low income families,