DeSantis is correctly playing this because if any Democrat has a debate with any Republican, what do the Republicans say when it's over? The Republicans say that Republican, whoever he was, won that so easily. So in the context of the primaries, it's probably really smart. I'm going to have to give DeSantis his first A for campaigning. He just hasn't been interesting. And it's the right play because he can't lose. It's kind of Trump-like. You can win two ways. If Newsome shows up and wins the debate, DeSantis's base will never even know that. But they'll see the news reports and say, well,

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