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California’s liberal governance is a disaster. @RonDeSantis’ conservative policies have Florida thriving, and would do so for the nation. pic.twitter.com/c4a8P5g5UQ

— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) June 19, 2023

“We’re here in the once-great city of San Francisco,” DeSantis says while standing in front of a graffiti-covered wall on an undisclosed street. “We came in here and saw people defecating on the street. We saw people using heroin. We saw people smoking crack cocaine.”

“You look around and the city is not vibrant anymore,” he states in the spot. “It’s really collapsed because of leftist policies. And these policies have caused people to flee this area.”

Touting Florida as a “law and order” state, DeSantis bashed California’s city and state leaders for prosecutorial leniency and the “wreckage” left in its wake.

“They are doing it wrong here,” he says. “No wonder why we’ve had so many people move from San Francisco to Florida over the last few years. We got to stop this madness. We need to restore sanity to this country.”

[It’s not even a law-and-order issue as much as it is a hygiene issue. San Francisco is collapsing into a failed city-state, a trend which John Sexton and David Strom cover with some vigor. It probably explains why its former mayor, Gavin Newsom (2004-11), spends a lot of his time in Florida and Texas too. — Ed]