Nate Silver Calls Newsom Attention Whore for Debate Challenge to DeSantis

Gov. Gavin Newsom is bending his pick-me muscles after challenging Gov. Ron DeSantis to a dispute — a lot so, it’s unfortunate … a minimum of according to a man well-known for calling elections.

Political expert and FiveThirtyEight creator Nate Silver — who when properly anticipated the governmental results in almost all 50 states in the ’08/’12 elections — had some extreme words for Newsom Friday … this after GN tossed down the proverbial onslaught versus DeSantis.

After Dan Rather drifted the concept — Newsom piggybacked … “Hey @GovRonDeSantis, clearly you’re struggling, distracted, and busy playing politics with people’s lives. Since you have only one overriding need — attention –let’s take this up & debate. I’ll bring my hair gel. You bring your hairspray. Name the time before Election Day. @CNN.”

The hair gel thing remains in action to a crack RDS made about Newsom asking the DOJ to examine the Martha’s Vineyard stunt (more on that later) … the Gov. plainly registered it.

Enter Silver … whose political hot takes get seen, and this one was no exception. He blasted Newsom, composing — “Hard to think of more of a pot-calling-the-kettle-black situation than Gavin Newsom calling someone else attention-starved. Like DeSantis, he’s trying to run a 2024 (presidential) campaign while dozens of his colleagues are in tight midterm races.”

The man’s getting dragged for apparently coming out in defense of DeSantis/on the attack versus Newsom — however on the problem of attempting to take in the spotlight and frame himself as a natural foil to the Florida Gov. … Silver is not actually incorrect about Newsom here.

As we have actually seen over the previous couple of months, Newsom has actually headed out of his method to troll DeSantis … and has frequently name-dropped him in an effort to knock his policies in his state. Some political experts state Newsom’s increase for a governmental run — and obviously believes DeSantis will too, wishing to set the narrative early in a potential match in 2024.

Of course, this most current dustup in between them comes from a wild episode today — when Govs. DeSantis and Abbott discarded airplanes and busloads of Venezuelan migrants at both Martha’s Vineyard and VP Kamala Harris‘ D.C. house … simply to make a political point.

Those relocations are now being identified as straight-out kidnapping and human trafficking — or at least … utilizing genuine individuals as pawns to score inexpensive headings and outrage points.