Ron DeSantis decries public crack smoking in San Francisco

It’s the streaks of San Francisco.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis painted a bleak picture of the City by the Bay in a campaign spot released Tuesday night, asserting that “leftist policies” have brought it to its knees.

The Republican presidential contender toured the California town Monday amid a deepening rift with Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Francisco’s former mayor.

“We’re here in the once-great city of San Francisco,” DeSantis says while standing in front of a graffiti-covered wall on an undisclosed street. “We came in here and saw people defecating on the street. We saw people using heroin. We saw people smoking crack cocaine.”

DeSantis, 44, has routinely lashed Democrat-controlled cities as blighted dystopias while elevating the Sunshine State as a thriving counterpoint.

While dodging dung and al fresco drug use, DeSantis said, he observed rows of boarded-up businesses and “so much riffraff running around.”

“You look around and the city is not vibrant anymore,” he states in the spot. “It’s really collapsed because of leftist policies. And these policies have caused people to flee this area.”

Touting Florida as a “law and order” state, DeSantis bashed California’s city and state leaders for prosecutorial leniency and the “wreckage” left in its wake.

“They are doing it wrong here,” he says. “No wonder why we’ve had so many people move from San Francisco to Florida over the last few years. We got to stop this madness. We need to restore sanity to this country.”

Saddled with growing crime and homelessness, San Francisco’s downtown has seen the exit of several major retailers in recent months, including Nordstrom and the area’s largest shopping mall.

DeSantis’ Bay Area broadside was the latest volley in his ongoing war with Newsom, who has happily returned fire.

The Californian, who served as San Francisco’s mayor from 2004 to 2011, sought to quiet speculation about a possible White House bid this week.

“Not on God’s green earth, as the phrase goes,” Newsom told the Associated Press after being asked about any presidential urges.

“I have been pretty consistently — including recently on Fox News — making the case for his candidacy,” he said of President Biden.

DeSantis — who remains second by a wide margin in most polls to former President Donald Trump — will hit South Carolina, Washington, DC, and Texas in the coming days as he attempts to close the gap.

He will also sit for an interview with Trump’s former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday night on Fox News.