Both Florida governor Ron DeSantis and California governor Gavin Newsom have a lot riding on tonight’s prime-time debate on Fox News Channel at 9 p.m. ET. This is both men’s best chance at standing out to their respective bases as champions of their party’s values. We should expect each to come out swinging — and that means there’s a fair chance that one could stumble.
It’s unusual, but not entirely unheard of, for two prominent politicians who are not their party’s presidential nominees to debate on television. Then-governor Ronald Reagan famously took on New York senator Robert F. Kennedy in a 1967 CBS debate. Reagan’s cool, assured performance convinced even pundits that there was more to the former movie actor than they had thought.
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