Why on earth did Ron DeSantis think it was a good idea to debate Gavin Newsom?

• Ron DeSantis squared off against Gavin Newsom on Thursday night in a pointless debate.
• It's difficult to accurately say who "won" a debate, but the night didn't go smoothly for DeSantis.
• The Florida governor's calculated risk agreeing to the debate didn't seem to pay off.

There's nothing people love more than watching a likely catastrophe live.

Case in point: around 40,000 Texans lined up to watch two trains crash into each other in 1896 for a marketing ploy by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad that ended in death and disaster.