California Gov. Gavin Newsom stated Thursday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made the best selection by dropping out of the Republican race and might need saved his future.
When requested on MSNBC if his cross-country rival destroyed his political profession by failing in his 2024 presidential bid, Newsom disagreed.
“I think if he continued on,” Newsom stated, “[DeSantis] was going to get trounced in his own state.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom. ((Fox Information/Getty))
Newsom additionally responded to a video that DeSantis just lately launched of him on X getting his younger son’s NFL playoff predictions.
“Just on a humanizing level, having spent a tiny bit of time with him but obviously studying him for some time, he’s a different guy,” Newsom instructed MSNBC’s Alex Wagner. “Now I saw him with his kid on a video, I’m like ‘who’s that guy?’”
“He was so wound up,” Newsom continued about DeSantis on the path. “Joyless. And you know, you can say what you want about Trump. He seems a little less wound up. He is winding up in terms of his rhetoric but a little more entertaining in that respect. You have got to know your why. I never felt like he had a why.”
Newsom then criticized the opposite Republican presidential candidates for believing they might one way or the other “out-Trump Trump” with the previous president nonetheless within the race. One after the other, all of them have dropped out aside from Nikki Haley over the previous 12 months.
“With Trump in the race, you were going to somehow try to deconstruct and connect and attach yourself to Trumpism with Trump in the race and sort of take it from him?” Newsom stated.
“The premise of it is rather — I don’t mean this as a cheap shot — rather delusional,” he added. “Maybe you didn’t think he was going to run, maybe you thought he was going to be convicted earlier for a crime, I don’t know what they were thinking, but it was so predictable. All of this was predictable.”
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Newsom criticized the Republican presidential candidates for believing that they might one way or the other “out-Trump Trump” with the previous president nonetheless within the race. (MSNBC screenshot)
“With respect to Nikki Haley,” Newsom stated, “I don’t know any state she can win, let alone her own state [of South Carolina].”
Trump beat Haley by 10 factors within the New Hampshire main, following up his landslide win within the Iowa caucuses that prompted DeSantis to stop the race.
Haley received political moderates in New Hampshire by 24 factors, whereas Trump received self-described “somewhat conservatives” by the identical margin (+24 factors). He ran up the rating amongst very conservative voters (+68 factors).
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Fox Information’ Polling Unit contributed to this report.
