‘We saw people defecating in the streets’: Ron DeSantis takes his war with Newsom to San Francisco – and rips homelessness and people openly using heroin
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis released a video slamming California Gov. Gavin Newsom for allowing the state to fall into disarray
- Detailed seeing homeless people do drugs and go to the bathroom in the streets
- DeSantis has dared Newsom to enter the 2024 Democratic primary – but the California governor has said he will not do so ‘under any circumstances’
Ron DeSantis isn’t taking attacks from California Gov. Gavin Newsom sitting down – releasing a video from San Francisco to share the horrors he saw walking through what he called a ‘once-great city.’
The Florida governor continued the east v. west coast feud with Newsom during his western campaign swing over the last week, which included a campaign fundraising event in Sacramento.
He said Newsom is ‘doing it all wrong’ and detailed some of the sights of the city, including seeing homeless people go to the bathroom on the streets and using drugs out in the open.
Newsom has continuously attacked DeSantis for his policies in Florida – even releasing an ad earlier this year urged Americans not to vote for the governor with the tagline ‘don’t make America Florida.’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis released a video from the streets of San Francisco where he slammed California leadership for allowing the state to fall into disarray
DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom have been in an ongoing war of words about the differing governance styles between the east and west coast states
DeSantis’ team is using that same rhetoric in return, releasing an email with the one-minute video with the subject line: ‘Don’t California Our Nation.’
‘We’re here in the once great city of San Francisco,’ DeSantis said in a straight-to-camera video shot on the streets of the California city.
‘We came in here and saw people defecating on the street. We saw people using heroin. We saw people smoking crack cocaine,’ he detailed. ‘And you look around and the city is not vibrant anymore. It’s really collapsed because of leftist policies. And these policies have caused people to flee this area.’
Newsom claims that DeSantis’ policies are too far right, but DeSantis says on the flip side that his California counterpart’s laws have led to a collapse of the Golden State.
‘They don’t prosecute criminals like they do in most parts of the country and the wreckage has really been sad to see,’ DeSantis said in the video. ‘I’ve seen so many businesses boarded up. I’ve seen so much riff-raff just running around. It just shows you these policies matter. Leadership matters.’
‘They are doing it wrong here,’ he added.
‘No wonder why we’ve had so many people move from San Francisco to Florida over the last few years. We got to stop this madness. We need to restore sanity to this country.’
The battle of the opposing coastal state leaders has heightened after DeSantis entered the Republican presidential primary race last month.
DeSantis last week dared Newsom to enter the 2024 primary against President Joe Biden as the California Democrat continues to say that he doesn’t plan to run.
DeSantis said that during his time in San Francisco he saw homeless people go to the bathroom on the streets and use drugs out in the open
Homelessness and crime has been on the rise in recent years in California and other Democratic cities
‘He has a real serious fixation on the state of Florida,’ DeSantis said of Newsom during a press conference in Florida last Thursday. ‘I mean, I think it’s just bizarre that he does that.’
‘What I would tell him is: You know what, stop pussy-footing around. Are you going to throw your hat in the ring and challenge Joe?’ the Florida governor questioned. ‘Are you going to get in and do it, or are you just going to sit on the sidelines and chirp?’
Newsom said over the weekend that there’s no chance ‘on God’s green earth’ he’s running for president in 2024.
But he also made clear that he does think DeSantis is a ‘weak’ and ‘undisciplined’ candidate that will get ‘crushed by Doanld Trump’ in the primary.