Two people present at the DeSantis/Newsom debate said that California first partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom was the one who stepped in and ended the debate on her husband’s behalf after Hannity invited the two governors to go deeper into overtime.
“Gavin Newsom got beat so badly last night his wife literally had to throw in the towel for him. It was embarrassing,” DeSantis spokesperson Andrew Romeo said.
The statement is at odds with a tweet Newsom posted sometime after the debate, where he suggested he could have stayed longer.
The DeSantis campaign had a little fun with it: