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Shadow Campaign? Biden Advisors Fume Over Gavin Newsom's 'Disrespectful' Plan to Debate Ron DeSantis (radaronline.com)

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President Joe Biden’s advisors are furious about Gavin Newsom’s plan to debate Ron DeSantis in the middle of the 2024 presidential campaign cycle, RadarOnline.com has learned.

In a surprising development to come after the California governor challenged DeSantis to a one-on-one debate earlier this summer, White House sources revealed that Biden’s advisors are “angered” about the potential Newsom-DeSantis “spectacle.”

Also surprising are reports that some Biden staffers fear Newsom is running a “shadow 2024 campaign” against President Biden and that the Newsom-DeSantis debate is part of that shadow campaign.

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[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

DeSantis also dumped a plane full of migrants in Sacramento and then showed up in town a few weeks later for a fundraiser.

Newsom may in fact have his eye on 2028, but for him this debate is personal. He wants to embarrass DeSantis publicly. All reports indicated those migrants were in bad shape and Newsom, if I remember correctly, ended up personally involved in helping them get sorted.