A lot of people obviously assume that the 2024 race is going to once again be between
Biden and Donald Trump, right.
Basically a repeat of the 20, 20 election, but behind the scenes what's actually happening
right now is we basically have a shadow presidential race happening between California, governor
Gavin Newsom and Florida, governor Ron DeSantis.
Those are the two names that are both starting to emerge as possible.
Real contenders for 2024.
Obviously DeSantis name has been out there long, uh, much longer than Newsom's has, but
new polls show that Newsom actually polls better than vice president Kamala Harris.
Now, I don't know if he polls better than Biden right now, but Biden's poll numbers
are about as low as you could possibly get.
He should not seek a second term.
So what's happening.
Gavin Newsom is surging.
His name is of course being floated out there in the media, national polls, all of that.
So it's out there, but what we could see would actually be quite fascinating if these two
men ran against each other, cuz we're talking about two men running two of the biggest states
in the country that could not be more different.
And to be honest, I, I, I do feel like that would really give Americans a choice because
they would have actual examples to look at who do you wanna be?
Do you want to be California?
Or do you wanna be Florida now?
Republicans, of course, they're gonna say, well, hell yeah, I want to be Florida.
Democrats are gonna say, well hell yeah, hell yeah, I wanna be California.
So we know where the party divide would be on that.
But here's the thing when independence actually get to look at the facts, look at how each
state has been run over the years by these respective men.
It's a no brainer to pick California.
And by the way, this is coming, of course from somebody who's in the state of Florida,
Florida under Ron DeSantis has seen our housing prices rise faster than at any other than
in any other state in the entire country.
We are now one of the most unaffordable states to live in inflation is killing us.
We're destroying our own environment with these toxic algae blooms.
Ron DeSantis allowed, uh, close to 90,000 of his own constituents to die from COVID
because he refused to put any protections in place versus California that did put all
these protections in place, you know, had 'em in place a lot longer than most other
states.
And they did not percentage wise see the same amount of death that we saw here in the state
of Florida, obviously by virtue of having tens of millions of more residents, they saw
more death, but they didn't ha they had a lower percentage, right?
They had a lower death rate than what we had here in Florida.
So again, that's another parallel state of California got a budget surplus over here
in Florida.
Not so much, not so much, you know, we've cut taxes in the state for businesses.
We've banned books, we've banned math books.
We've made it legal to run over protestors.
If they're in the middle of the street, we've got our abortion ban, of course, that the
courts are currently holding up.
But we have, uh, we we've had the, the voting restrictions.
We've had all these horrible things under Ron DeSantis.
This is, you know, ground zero for his culture war, the entire Republican party's culture
war.
Really California has none of that.
The two states could not be more different.
And I know Republicans love to talk about because of warn you with all the homeless
people.
Again, listen, I'm in Florida.
I can't drive to and from work every day without seeing homeless people on the corner, most
of them homeless vets because the area I'm in is actually surrounded by three different
military bases.
So don't gimme that crap about California because we've got homeless problems here that
are so bad that they've enacted a lot of the things that California has done.
Like, oh, you're not allowed to legally panhandle anymore.
You can't be here.
We're putting up all the, the things on the benches.
So they can't sleep there.
Like we're doing that here too.
It's just that the media doesn't cover it when it happens here, but they do cover it
when it happens in California.
We're just as cruel to the homeless people as those folks in California can be too.
So don't gimme that crap.
Don't act like Florida doesn't have those same exact problems that we try to pin on
California.
Don't act like Texas doesn't or New York doesn't we all do.
And we're all failing on that particular issue by the way.
But beyond that, there could not be a more stark difference between these two states
and honestly giving the country a choice to choose which one you wanna be based on.
Policy kind of seems like that's what elections are supposed to be about anyway.
Right?