Your guide to understanding Newsom and DeSantis ahead of their Thursday debate — and how they are shaping life in California and Florida.

It took months of haggling over the details, but the debate between Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis is really happening.

Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom will battle it out in Alpharetta, Georgia in what the network is calling "The Great Red vs. Blue State Debate." Political talk show host Sean Hannity will moderate the broadcast without a studio audience.

Florida's Ron DeSantis, a GOP presidential candidate, took on California's Gavin Newsom, who is a Biden surrogate and not a 2024 candidate, in a debate moderated by Fox's Sean Hannity.

Gavin Newsom didn’t mince words about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ’ electoral prospects in a Fox News “debate” the two men took part in Thursday. “You’re

Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.The event was billed by some as a 2028 preview but it was more of a bizarro version of 2024—one where neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden were running for a second term.

Ron DeSantis has been mocked by supporters of Donald Trump ahead of the Florida governor's debate with his California counterpart, Gavin Newsom. The unusual debate between a Republican 2024 hopeful and a Democratic governor who is touted as a potential future presidential candidate is set to be broadcast on Fox News and moderated by Sean Hannity from 9 p.

DeSantis called Newsom a “slick, slippery politician whose state is failing.” Newsom said DeSantis is “down 41-points [to Trump] in your own home state.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) took a personal shot at California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), saying the Democrat’s father-in-law told him he moved to Florida from California because of high taxes and the cost of living.