4. Homelessness

The governors debated the issue of homelessness.

Newsom said that the issues has been “decades” in the making in California since the sate started shutting down mental health institutions. He said he was the first governor in the country to tackle the issue “head on.”

“We are investing unprecedented resources, more accountability, we’ve gotten 68,000 people off the street, it’s close to 6,000 encampments we’ve gotten off the streets,” he said. “We’ve also invested unprecedented resources in reforming our behavioral health system, Ron has literally the worst mental health system in America, forgive me outside of Mississippi and Texas.”
DeSantis then held up a map of San Francisco that showed incidents of feces and human waste being reported on the street.

“This is an app where they plot the human feces that are found on the streets of San Francisco, and you see how almost the whole thing is covered, because that is what has happened in one of the previous greatest cities this country has ever had,” he said.


DeSantis said that feces on the street has become a fact of life in San Francisco, except “when a dictator comes to town.”

He was referring to a recent visit by China’s leader Xi Jinping.

“Then they cleaned up the streets, they lined the streets with Chinese flags, they didn’t put American flags there, they cleaned everything up,” DeSantis said. “So they’re willing to do it for a communist dictator, but they’re not willing to do it for their own people.”
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