The California governor has been trying to get his Florida Republican counterpart to engage. On Wednesday, he got it.

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On Wednesday, DeSantis agreed, telling Fox News’ Sean Hannity: “Absolutely I’m game. Just tell me when and where.”

An aide to Newsom told POLITICO that the governor was also in. Newsom’s office had sent a formal request offer to Fox News last week with proposed debate dates of Nov. 8 or Nov. 10. That request called for Hannity to serve as the sole moderator for a 90-minute forum on Fox News that would not include an in-studio audience and would air live.

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Smart to not have an audience.

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Yeah, that caught my attention, too.

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Newsom has some balls for agreeing to Hannity as a moderator

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When you speak the truth, you don’t need a special referee. Bernie went on a Fox News town hall and got an audience to mostly all raise their hands in support of Medicare for all.

We all have more in common, once we all sober up…

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You do however need an impartial one. Going on Fox to debate facts is a bit like train to explain quantum physics to a duck.

It won’t work and everyone will think you’re weird for trying.

Fox doesn’t have right wing leadings, it’s straight up propaganda. Truth and objective reality are completely irrelevant. They’re the one saying trump will run from prison, which obviously he won’t be allowed to do, but they say it anyway, they are not going to care about the truth.

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True, but he will only do it live and that is an opportunity to reach people, and it will be obvious if they are being unfair

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Looks like Lemmy has not seen Newsom debate. And apparently didn’t see Newsom school Hannity on his show last month.

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That could be interesting.

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I’m not a big Newsom fan - I have a grudge against him for some of his decisions as governor- but if he pulls this off looking good, I will definitely be impressed.

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I can’t imagine this going well. DeSantis will not properly debate, he’ll probably just try to talk over him. And Fox ‘News’ won’t do anything to properly moderate DeSantis, like muting his mic when he speaks out of turn.

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That’s kind of my point - if he can turn something positive out of a no win situation, then he might have the charisma to stand up to the gop.

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This shows confidence. Hope we get the full uncut broadcast - I’ll bootleg the hell out of this. Fox News YouTube won’t get my views.

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Fox Entertainment*

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Faux angertainment

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