paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. florida governor ron desantis and gavin newsom squared off at a fiery debate in a battle between red and blue state policies with them clashing over everything from abortion to covid lockdowns to the biden/harris agenda. california represents the biden/ s harris agenda on steroids. they would love to get four years to take the california model. ron desantis signed the most a stream antiabortion bills in america. he signed a bill banning any exceptions for rape and incest and then he said it didn t go far enough and decided to sign a 6 week band. i had disney open during covid. we saved a lot of jobs. you had disney closed for over a year. you were not following science. you are a lockdown governor. you are trolling folks and trying to find migrants to play political games to get some attention to out trump trump. how is that going for you? paul: joining us is dan heninger and kyle peterson. what did we learn? how do they
him an advantage and he s hoping his organization with never back down will also give him a turnout advantage. actually, what we found in the des moines register poll is that desantis supporters are more likely to say they will definitely show up to caucus than donald trump s or nikki haley supporters. so he s hoping that ground game, that organization, gives him the ability to at least pull off a second place finish here. and nikki haley has spent a lot on her campaign apparatus as well as outside groups supporting her, spent a ton on tv. really has not done as much the retail politics as desantis has as you mentioned, going to all 99 counties. haley has not done that. so a lot of it is going to be about enthusiasm. it is expected to be the coldest ever caucus night. kay, from what you ve seen, which candidate, which campaigns are best suited for this extreme
back with us now, three powerful voices from three important states as we draw closer to midterm. elizabeth thompson editor-in-chief of nevada independent from las vegas. ben winslow reporter at fox 13 news from salt lake city, utah, brahm resnik, kpx anchor from arizona. brahm, make me look smart, give me something to take away about arizona that i might not know. well, we re so focused on the vote, i ll tell you two things, republicans in arizona during midterms have a built-in six to eight-point turnout advantage. we re looking to see that again this year. however, it appears the republican vote will show up late, so if you re watching our returns on election night, don t be surprised if the democrats show up in the lead in the first
she is a very polished presence on the campaign trail. very polished presence. of course, the other side that vaughn just mentioned, being with steve pan bannon. so very polished presence. she has campaigned more with blake masters and what happens is voters start to make up their minds and the question is why isn t that election denial piece the trump connection, the threat to democracy, making an impact, and i ll say above that, hold on, wait a minute, because let s see what voters actually say, and one more thing voters may not know, republicans have a built-in 8 point advantage, turnout advantage in midterm elections. it could be higher this time given the energy on the republican side. that s a very good point. let s wait and see how it has an effect. but let s also talk about another arizona candidate, brahm, mark finchim running for secretary of state, which is a powerful position in arizona, over elections, he is an election denier, but his
combined. so republicans just have a massive, massive cash advantage that is really difficult to overcome. that s number one. number two, as ashley said, all of these bills that they pass, i mean if you stack this congress up, against other previous congresses, this is probably the most productive congress we have ever seen. american rescue package, the transportation bill, the inflation reduction act, gun legislation, i mean the it s been incredibly, incredibly productive, but it seems to democrats that i m speaking to that they re going home and all they re hearing about is gas prices. yes, they ve fallen. yes, inflation might be easing. we don t have any hard evidence of that. it might be easing. but they, all of these pieces of legislation don t really mean much, as ashley said, if they re going to the supermarket and eggs are twice as expensive as they were a year before. and also, one other thing. and this is something we heard at the time and i think we even