The California governor criticized DeSantis' transport of dozens of migrants to Martha's Vineyard and similar moves by GOP-led states as 'reprehensible.'
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday challenged his Florida counterpart, Ron DeSantis, to a televised debate, escalating his criticism of Republican governors’ mass transport of migrants to liberal bastions as “reprehensible” and possibly illegal.
On Wednesday evening, DeSantis sent a group of around 50 migrants by plane to Martha’s Vineyard, a Massachusetts playground for wealthy liberals. On Thursday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bused a group of nearly 100 migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington, D.C., ramping up a tactic that GOP governors have turned to in recent months to protest illegal immigration.
When asked about the letter during an event Friday, DeSantis responded with a quip about Newsom’s hair.Newsom took the opportunity to lay down his challenge to DeSantis, sharing an August tweet in which former CBS News anchor Dan Rather raised the idea of a potential prime-time debate between the two governors, both thought to be harboring presidential ambitions.Friday calling DeSantis’ and Abbott’s migrant transports “a shameful stunt.