This is really good messaging. Newsom is a really good orator and has a lot of charisma. He'd be a force to be reckoned with if he ran for President.
DeSantis vs Newsom would be a pretty interesting race
It would be a high turnout race for sure. Both are liked by the base but also they're absolutely loathed by the other side.
Oh sure though probably not to the level Biden/Harris vs Trump for example and there probably would be a more clear policy debate as well here too.
Sort of, but the hatred towards Trump and (to a lesser extent Biden) is much more personal, whereas people hate Newsom and DeSantis because they're basically mascots for the party they hate.
I actually don't think Republicans hate Biden personally too much. That applies more to Obama and Hillary Clinton. I mean, even look at the names and attacks they give Biden compared to HRC and Obama. Biden is just simply "Sleepy Joe," whereas Clinton was "Crooked Hillary." They attack Biden more as a sleepy, clueless puppet controlled by his advisors and political handlers - whereas they were much more vitriolic towards Hillary Clinton (also because there's so much more to attack her on - she's just objectively got more controversies/scandals than Biden, such as the emails and the Comey letter) and Barack Obama (he wasn't even controversial -
Fox and Republicans invented 'controversies' like the 'scandal' about the tan suit and the mustard on the burger, not to mention the baseless 'Birther' conspiracy theories that dogged Obama).
Democrats obviously really, really hate Trump, both personally and politically (and with good reason to be sure).
