A panel of younger California voters joined FOX Information’ ”The Story” on Friday to react to The Nice Crimson vs. Blue State Debate between California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on ”Hannity,” providing blended evaluations for the contributors.
Fordham College college students Andrew McDonald and Parker McGinley — Democrat and Republican respectively — advised FOX Information that neither would help DeSantis.
McGinley indicated he’s leaning towards former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, whereas McDonald leaned towards re-electing President Biden.
McDonald additionally dismissed mounting notions that Newsom is working a shadow marketing campaign for the presidency as a last-minute substitute for Biden whereas suggesting DeSantis’ efficiency was an try to realize traction in a main the place former President Trump is working away within the polls.
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Govs. Gavin Newsom, Ron DeSantis (DeSantis (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket by way of Getty Photographs) Newsom (Photograph by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP by way of Getty Photographs))
”I am watching all of the debates, however this debate mattered simply as a lot as all the opposite Republican debates,” he mentioned.
”I do not assume that both of those males might be president in 2025.”
McDonald, whereas a Democrat, mentioned he’s additionally ”not a fan” of Newsom. Nevertheless, he sees the governor as clearly making an attempt to construct help for an ”inevitable” 2028 presidential bid.
Requested about polls exhibiting People general opposing a Biden re-election marketing campaign, McDonald mentioned surveys certainly confirmed ”generic Democrats” working forward of the incumbent in a match-up with Trump.
Nonetheless, he hedged on Biden’s claims the MAGA motion is actually a ”menace to democracy,” saying that if that had been true, the president would have seen the polling towards his favor and instantly bowed out of the race to let both Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro or Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer take his spot.
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Shapiro, a first-term governor and the primary Democrat in a long time to comply with a previous Democratic governor in Harrisburg, in addition to Whitmer, a high-profile, second-term liberal in Lansing, are amongst a number of names usually mentioned as future occasion leaders along with Newsom.
McGinley, the Republican voter, mentioned he was ”slightly bit embarrassed” by DeSantis’ efficiency.
”I hoped that he’d present slightly bit extra of an enthralling character that we see in Trump, and proper now he is simply been pounding out — going for performs, going for ticks, making an attempt to get on Instagram, making an attempt to get on all these social media apps and making an attempt to appear like the cruel, Trumpier-than-Trump than every other Republican,” McGinley mentioned.
He mentioned DeSantis comes throughout as making an attempt to be the subsequent iteration of a Trumpian candidate however lacks the ”allure” of the forty fifth president.
”That is why I might lean extra in direction of Trump,” he mentioned. ”After all, I might additionally lean in direction of Nikki Haley. I feel she’s stolen numerous what DeSantis had.”
Nevertheless, McGinley later mentioned DeSantis would make an excellent vice chairman.