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and welcome to this special of hannity. happy new year. now, tonight for the full hour, we ll highlight some of our big interviews from 2023. we start tonight with highlights from the first ever red state blue state debate between florida governor ron desantis and california governor gavin newsom. taka govern santis ae a look.t star well, let s get started. everybody ready? te all we are as we speak, theres is a phenomenon that is playings out across the entire country. americans, they are leavingr blue states in droves, in favor of red states. you can see numbers on the screestatesyou cas n rigm the year 2021 and 2022. these particularyears numbersst are stark. in the state that you lead sa in the castee, you, governor newsom, according to the u.s. census, this is where the numbers come from. ,e in 2021, 2022, california, california s lost 750,000 residents to other states. governor desantis, during that same two year period, you gained 454,000 residents0 re fr ....
You guys actually want us to succeed in florida. and they feel like whe orida.n they re in california, they don t want businesses to see that. what did all that say in the tampa bay rays? well, actually, yeah, i think [ tt s an interesting poin with because i had disney open during and we made them a fortune. we saved a lot of jobs. .you disney closed inexplicably for over a year. ly for oyou were not following e you were a locked down governor. you di a locgovernord a lot of r people. you had more kids locked out of schoohad morecked outl for at of time in california than anywhere else in the countryhay it was the working class kids. it was the middle income kids. his kidslass kidthe midd were il school. they were in class. and i know teachers unionsachers u you re going to see is owned by the teachers union. they will never cross the teachers. it s just a lot of blocks the uns knocking back about covid. let s talk about your record on covioud. you passed an emergency declaration ....
Years to be able to take the california model nationallay that would be disastrous for working people. and well, let s talk work.g people.your s pay more in your state than the state of california. charges for billionairesstat an, millionaires. and it s just a value proposition. it s a fact. again, you can t milliact. makee six or seven year or a gallon gas. how do they how dgas. ofolk they afford that? these are folks that are blue collar people talkings that about everybody to buy an electric vehicle. how are they going to be able to afford electricc vehicl w can th vehicles ife wo you re working class people? and i think the thing about california , they have one of the highest inequality rates because, yeah, they ve got silicoe of theighestn valleo billionaires, they ve got a lot of very wealthy people. they ve got a lot of peoplalthye are on government assistance, but they ve hollowed out their middle class. that sed out the who s been payh rate. they ve been living in other ....
So we do count gavin s in-lawsas as some of the people that havet fled california. i mean, come to the state of florida. and why are weo florida why ara getting people to come? we have a 50 year low in the crime rater t. years you don t see in the last ten years we ve had a 45%ssness decline in homelessness. california s. had a 45% increase in homelessness. we back thincreasee blue. i was walking the streets of san francisco a couple frle mono and i had some of the cops in san francisco do say.line to come over to me and i didn t know what they were going to say. and we want to thank you for standing for law enforcement don because we don t get that support in the state of california. so people understand he state o qualityity-of-l of life matters. they understand that florida s doing iters.d florid right. and i can tell you the numbers speak for themselves. we have way more people to goavo to this state. and leaving gavin can t say the opposite. more peoplreanleave an e are leavin ....