California Governor Gavin Newsom has said he has no plans to run for president in the immediate future, but speculation has intensified.
Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis dropped a new campaign ad on Monday targeting California Governor Gavin Newsom.
The GOP Florida governor, a former Donald Trump ally, launched his presidential campaign last month at a Twitter Spaces event co-hosted by Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Newsom, meanwhile, has said that he has no plans to run for president in the immediate future, but speculation about a run has intensified because of the Democrat’s repeated appearances on the national stage to criticize GOP politicians and policies in other states. Much of the recent criticism has been firmly focused on DeSantis.
This month, Newsom called the Florida governor a “small, pathetic man” while also threatening him with kidnapping charges for purportedly orchestrating flights of migrants from Texas to California. He has also taken on DeSantis over such issues as abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, as well as his ongoing war against Disney.
DeSantis defended the flights to California, saying, “I don’t think we should have any of this. But if there’s a policy to have an open border, then I think the sanctuary jurisdictions should be the ones that have to bear that.
