But her point was that this spectacle did not benefit voters. 'I should’ve poured a glass of wine before the debate started,' she texted during the final commercial break. She's the director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. 'It's political theater in its most ridiculous form,' Mindy Romero told me before the debate, and watching it didn't change that opinion. They held a debate Thursday night on Fox News, moderated by far-right provocateur Sean Hannity, an event that was hyped so much you'd be forgiven for thinking the stakes were high, that this made-for-television stunt actually mattered.īut it did hurt to watch - especially DeSantis pulling a gender identity book out of his pocket, followed by a poop map of San Francisco.
The culmination of the Gavin Newsom-Ron DeSantis bromance was a mano a mano mess of a matchup of two governors who depend on each other to whip up the kind of polarizing frenzy that feeds headlines and advances careers. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and Vice President Kamala Harris.
