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Get ExpressVPN right now at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. At the end of the dark night, probably the best movie of the last 20 years, Commissioner Gordon, Commissioner Gordon, Commissioner Gordon describes why Batman has to go into hiding and wrongly take the blame for Harvey Dent's death. He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now, says Commissioner Gordon. Well, folks, there's the debate America deserves, and then there's the debate America needs

right now. Last night, Fox News held a debate between Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and

Governor Gavin Newsom of California. It was a stark contrast in visions. DeSantis laid out his

record plainly. He criticized California's shortcomings accurately. Newsom obfuscated his own record and that

of his opponent, but it was, all things told, a relatively normal political debate, a debate in which

both sides came with their information and points and then argued over that information and those

points and those policy positions. It was, in short, the debate America deserves. It was not, in fact,

the debate America needs right now. Here was DeSantis'

generalized take on California's failures. So I was talking to a fella who had made the move from

California to Florida, and he was telling me that Florida is much better govern, safer, better

budget, lower taxes, all this stuff, and he was really happy with the quality of life. And then he

paused and he said, oh, by the way, I'm's really happy with the quality of life. And then he paused,

and he said, oh, by the way, I'm Gavin Newsom's father-in-law. So we do count Gavin's in-laws as some of the

people that have fled California. They understand that Florida's doing it right. And I can tell you,

the numbers speak for themselves. We have way more people moving to this state than leaving.

Gavin can't say

the opposite. More people are leaving California than are moving into California. But the reality

is they have failed because of his leftist ideology. And the choice for America is this. What Biden and

Harris and Newsom want to do is take the California model and do that nationally. In Florida, we

showed that conservative principles work. This country must choose freedom over failure.

This is what a good conservative candidate looks like. And here was Gavin Newsom on the other side

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