He was the big winner of the election and made the evening even more bitter for Donald Trump, who now sees his future threatened. 46 years old, married to a former TV host and three young children, the Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis earned nearly 20 points on Tuesday to renew his term.
The triumph was his great one stepping stone to the White House and could compete with the former president himself in the internal ones for the 2024 elections.
The fight can be fierce.
This man ultra conservativea military man with Top Gun credentials, a lawyer who claims to fight “for freedom,” against Disney, sex education in schools, communism and illegal immigration, has a chance to become president of the United States, especially now that Americans have shown at the polls that they are no longer so prone to chaotic and extremist candidates within the Republican Party.
Beyond Florida
Many say that DeSantis is as popular as the tycoon, but without scandals, more “orderly” and with a greater political vision. Magazine The New Yorker subtleties abandoned defining it as “A Trump with a brain”.
DeSantis won heads-up in his state, which became decidedly “red” and crossed the borders of Florida to look at in the national magnifying glass. The governor doesn’t talk about his plans, but everything indicates that in 2024 he will run for the Republican party inmates to compete with anyone.
For now only the former president, who also flirts with the return to the ring, beats him in popularity, but in the elections on Tuesday Trump was badly beaten.
An important fact is the money: DeSantis has broken the collecting record $ 200 million for his campaign, according to Politico, when his Democratic rival Charlie Christ raised just 31. The funds reach beyond Florida’s borders, indicating it already has a national projection. He only spent 100, he keeps another 100 for his future.
Its popularity is huge in Florida, in the rural hinterland, even in the more mundane Miami, where Latinos are strong. He also won at Miami Dadewhere the Republicans hadn’t won for 20 years, and where he got a good part of the Latin vote.
Lawyer graduated from prestigious universities such as Yale and Harvard, joined the army as “Top Gun” and came to fight in Iraq. He then turned to politics, first as a member of the state Congress until he became governor.
took off when faced the White House during the pandemic and withstood the closure of businesses and the mandatory use of the chin strap. It has also lowered taxes and the Sunshine State has become a magnet for many large American cities that seek a more relaxed climate and pay less.
its ideology
“He says the things that need to be said.” “He is a family man”. “He understands how business works.” “He has the courage to fight crime and illegal immigration.” “It will stop socialism”were some of the phrases Clarín heard the most among ordinary people, even among some who have ever voted for Democrats.
The more progressive sectors, on the other hand, are horrified by many of its more aggressive policies, like his fight against sex education and the critical theory of prayer in schools. DeSantis hasn’t hesitated to ban shows statewide on the grounds that these topics are taught in the family.
Nor did he hesitate to withdraw some mathematics textbooks from circulation they mentioned homosexuals. He also clashed with the Disney company and withdrew the autonomy of the Orlando land where their parks are located because the owners of Mickey Mouse criticized their policy towards the LGTBQ community.
Another of his most controversial measures was when put dozens of undocumented immigrants on a plane who had arrived in Florida and shipped them to liberal cities considered “sanctuaries” like Martha’s Vineyard and Washington DC.
DeSantis is also a strong critic of the regimes of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, with which he has earned the sympathy of most of the state’s Latins.
He implemented the “Day of the Victims of Communism”so that every 7 November there will be 45 minutes of conversation in public schools about “how victims suffered under these regimes through the repression of speech, poverty, hunger, migration and systemic lethal violence”.
His most recent advertisement called him “a warrior sent by God” to Earth. The more religious sectors – key to any election in the United States – view the character with admiration.
An editorial published on Wednesday Fox NewsThe conservative Democrat called DeSantis “the new leader of the Republican Party,” while the front page of the New York Post dubbed him “DeFuture.” Trump looks in horror at the rise of the governor.
Mindful of the upcoming combat and true to his style of baptizing his enemies, Trump has already nicknamed him “Ron De-Sanctimonious,” a pun that accuses him of being hypocritically religious. The governor waits and analyzes when it suits him to launch his candidacy. He does not want to confront Trump directly, in order not to lose his millions of voters.
Biden, on the other hand, disqualifies him by saying that he is “the reincarnation of Donald Trump. In a post-election White House conference, reporters asked the president if, if he were to run for re-election, which rival he’d rather face: Biden smiled, anticipating a carnal battle between the two Republicans: “It will be fun to watch you two!”
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Source: Clarin
