Newsom July 4 advertisement targets DeSantis: 'Freedom is underneath attack'

California Gov. Gavin Newsom took intention at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a new campaign ad, proclaiming "flexibility is beneath assault" in states these as Florida that are run by Republican governors.

"Your Republican leaders, they're banning textbooks," Newsom says in the advert as photos of DeSantis enjoy on the monitor. The California Democrat goes on to say Republican governors are also "generating it more difficult to vote, limiting speech in school rooms, even criminalizing women of all ages and doctors."

Newsom appeared to be referencing a DeSantis go to reject 41% of the state's math publications in excess of issues that the guides used materials that provided themes of social-emotional studying, Typical Core standards and crucial race idea, which are all banned under Florida legislation.

"Some publishers tried to slap a coat of paint on an outdated residence crafted on the foundation of Prevalent Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, in particular, bizarrely, for elementary faculty students," DeSantis reported about the transfer before this yr.

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Newsom then calls on Floridians to "join the fight" towards DeSantis, but also quips that the state's inhabitants are welcome to shift to California.

"I urge all of you dwelling in Florida to sign up for the fight," Newsom says, introducing that Floridians could also "sign up for us in California, wherever we nonetheless think in flexibility."

"Liberty of speech, freedom to opt for, independence from dislike and the independence to adore," he carries on. "Never enable them consider your liberty."

But data compiled by the South Florida Business enterprise Journal indicates that it is really Californians fleeing the Golden Condition in favor of Florida, with above 18,000 California people relocating to Florida in 2019 and over 17,000 performing the identical in 2020.

Still left: California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Suitable: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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DeSantis has in the earlier expressed concerns about California residents fleeing for Florida, pointing to the hundreds of Californians that have moved to Texas in recent years that continue on to vote for Democrats.

"It is really like the leftism, they will not attract the connection involving their leftist ideology and the destruction that is all all around them," DeSantis said in April. "It is a trouble due to the fact I do feel there is a class of voters who would come to Florida, and they would continue to vote the very same way."