California Gov. Gavin Newsom took purpose at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a new campaign advert, claiming "freedom is underneath attack" in states these kinds of as Florida that are operate by Republican governors.

"Your Republican leaders, they are banning books," Newsom states in the ad as images of DeSantis engage in on the display. The California Democrat goes on to say Republican governors are also "making it tougher to vote, proscribing speech in school rooms, even criminalizing ladies and medical professionals."

Newsom appeared to be referencing a DeSantis shift to reject 41% of the state's math publications above fears that the textbooks used materials that included themes of social-psychological mastering, Prevalent Core expectations and important race concept, which are all banned under Florida legislation.

"Some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an previous property developed on the foundation of Prevalent Main, and indoctrinating principles like race essentialism, specially, bizarrely, for elementary college students," DeSantis explained about the transfer previously this year.

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Newsom then phone calls on Floridians to "be part of the struggle" from DeSantis, but also quips that the state's inhabitants are welcome to move to California.

"I urge all of you living in Florida to join the combat," Newsom states, including that Floridians could also "join us in California, where by we continue to believe in independence."

"Flexibility of speech, flexibility to pick out, liberty from hate and the flexibility to adore," he carries on. "Never permit them get your independence."

But information compiled by the South Florida Business Journal indicates that it is basically Californians fleeing the Golden Point out in favor of Florida, with in excess of 18,000 California inhabitants going to Florida in 2019 and around 17,000 accomplishing the exact same in 2020.

Remaining: California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Ideal: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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DeSantis has in the previous expressed considerations about California residents fleeing for Florida, pointing to the countless numbers of Californians that have moved to Texas in recent years that continue to vote for Democrats.

"It is really like the leftism, they will not attract the link in between their leftist ideology and the destruction that's all all around them," DeSantis stated in April. "It is a trouble for the reason that I do think there’s a course of voters who would appear to Florida, and they would continue to vote the similar way."