America got a preview this week of what the 2024 presidential campaign might look like if President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump stepped aside.
Gov. Newsom asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether transporting migrants across state lines as "political props" broke the law.
DeSantis and Abbott forced the immigration issue by sending migrants to liberal areas because they know there are few issues that do more to fire up the GOP base -- but also because that's the turf they want to fight elections on in 2022 and 2024.
Newsom, DeSantis and Abbott are testing what the next phase of that playbook looks like. This week, DeSantis cribbed the moves of other GOP governors like Abbott and Arizona's Doug Ducey, who have been sending busloads of migrants from the border to liberal cities like New York, Chicago and Washington, DC, to protest the glaring shortcomings of the Biden administration's immigration policy.
& secure the border." Domingo Garcia, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, retorted that "they were just literally dumped like human garbage" on the street. At a Friday news conference, DeSantis responded to the assertions in Newsom's letter with an insult: "I think his hair gel is interfering with his brain function." He also said he intends to use "every penny" of some $12 million that Florida budgeted to relocate migrants, calling this week's moves "just the beginning."
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