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Gavin Newsom won his Ron DeSantis debate with a murder by words – and it was just beautiful

It’s slightly less than a year until the US goes to the polls to choose their next president, but the battle between Democrat and Republican was in full swing during Thursday night’s head-to-head debate between California’s Governor Gavin Newsom and Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis.

Despite the debate being hosted by the right-wing Fox News channel, with Trump loyalist Sean Hannity as moderator, the Democrat ran rings around DeSantis, calling out his ultra-conservative attack on established freedoms and ending with a spectacularly brutal bit of honesty.

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If DeSantis plans to do this again, he should probably invest in some body armour and a helmet …

And then not bother.

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