{"id":26279,"date":"2023-06-23T11:05:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T15:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26279"},"modified":"2023-06-26T09:22:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:22:12","slug":"image-of-the-day-the-desantis-newsom-debate-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26279\/image-of-the-day-the-desantis-newsom-debate-illustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  The DeSantis\/Newsom Debate, Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Governor Gavin Newsom, who faced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/09\/13\/1036158468\/the-california-recall-and-its-very-real-political-consequences-explained\">recall<\/a> despite his state&#8217;s deep-blue status, continues his bizarre campaign to pick fights with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and can attempt to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/newsom-admits-california-made-progress-homeless-crisis-pressed-hannity-we-own-this\">spin<\/a> California&#8217;s disastrous social and economic decline any way he&#8217;d like.\u00a0 The numbers, however, don&#8217;t lie.\u00a0 Rhetoric is cheap, but people vote with their dollars and feet.\u00a0 And in that measure, Newsom&#8217;s California suffers alongside his deep-blue brethren, as illustrated by our economist friend <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/31bc2025ef74\/unleash-prosperity-hotline-867924?e=313568bbd7\">Steve Moore<\/a> using official U.S. Census Bureau data:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/dc8d30edd7976d2ddf9c2bf96\/images\/eed6823e-f98d-eba7-8d78-ad94977cee06.png\" alt=\"DeSantis vs. Newsome in One Picture\" width=\"561\" height=\"351\" \/> DeSantis vs. Newsom in One Picture<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Governor Gavin Newsom, who faced recall despite his state&#8217;s deep-blue status, continues his bizarre campaign to pick fights with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and can attempt to spin California&#8217;s disastrous social and economic decline any way he&#8217;d like.\u00a0 The numbers, however, don&#8217;t lie.\u00a0 Rhetoric is cheap, but people vote with their dollars and feet.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,5150,354,5234,2444,5233,1912],"class_list":["post-26279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-desantis","tag-florida","tag-laboratories-of-democracy","tag-migration","tag-newsom","tag-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26282,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26279\/revisions\/26282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}