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
so we do count gavin s in-lawsas as some of the people that havet fled california. i mean, come to the state of florida. and why are weo florida why ara getting people to come? we have a 50 year low in the crime rater t. years you don t see in the last ten years we ve had a 45%ssness decline in homelessness. california s. had a 45% increase in homelessness. we back thincreasee blue. i was walking the streets of san francisco a couple frle mono and i had some of the cops in san francisco do say.line to come over to me and i didn t know what they were going to say. and we want to thank you for standing for law enforcement don because we don t get that support in the state of california. so people understand he state o qualityity-of-l of life matters. they understand that florida s doing iters.d florid right. and i can tell you the numbers speak for themselves. we have way more people to goavo to this state. and leaving gavin can t say the opposite. more peoplreanleave an e are leavin