Populist political style.
Refusal in the face of the corona pandemic.
And a promising candidate for the US elections in 2024: Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis.
Washington - is he the new Trump? Could he even be the Republican Party's presidential candidate in the 2024 US elections? Ron DeSantis, the controversial governor of the US state of Florida, has made a name for himself among conservative voters in the United States. From "DeathSantis" - as he was called due to his refusal to lockdown
according to
the local newspaper
Orlando Weekly
- to the new star of the Republicans. A steep climb. That began in 2018 on the shoulders of the then US President Donald Trump *. DeSantis is currently polarizing with a controversial "anti-riot" law.
DeSantis was a candidate for governor on the Trump card: his election campaign was marked by rhetorical slip-ups, a populist political style and high-profile productions.
In a commercial, for example, he built a wall from giant Lego bricks with his child - whom he cheered on with “Build the wall”.
He read a story to another of his children in the clip: "Then Donald Trump said: You are fired!" Without Trump, the once unknown congressman would probably not have become governor of one of the most densely populated states in the United States.
The state in which Trump settled after leaving the White House: Florida *, which is increasingly developing into the new epicenter of the Republicans.
Trump heir Ron DeSantis: Florida's governor relied on keeping the state open radically during Corona
Ron DeSanti's star dropped rapidly at the beginning of the corona pandemic *.
Florida quickly became a hotspot for the pandemic.
The governor refused to take strict countermeasures and adhered to a radical course of keeping the economy and the public open.
As the death toll skyrocketed last summer, the Republican temporarily issued a lockdown.
To open completely again just a few weeks later.
Not least because of the economy.
He is also currently working to make the cruise industry possible again - a driving economic force of the state.
"If there's one thing we've learned over the last year, it's that lockdowns don't work and the people of Florida have the right to make a living," DeSantis said at a March news conference.
And sharply attacked US President Joe Biden.
Part of the full picture is that DeSanti's corona policy is being reassessed again after more than a year in the pandemic.
The state's death rate is no higher than in many other US states - and even lower than in some with stricter restrictions, as
reported by the
Axios
portal
.
Even the
New York Times
wrote: "Most of the state has a boomtown feeling".
At the same time, exuberant spring break celebrations * without any Corona precautions in the sunny state caused horror nationwide.
But it is precisely his refusal to face the pandemic that has promoted DeSantis directly into the ranks of promising candidates for the next US election.
DeSantis embodies, among other things, the attitude of those Americans who feel that wearing a mask to contain a pandemic is already an interference with their right to freedom.
In the "land of the free".
US election 2024: Promising Republican candidate - Controversial new law in Florida
A survey by the independent polling agency Mason-Dixon Polling & Stratey in February 2021 gave a clear picture of opinion: 53 percent of those surveyed gave the governor a good job evaluation (43 percent said they did not agree, five percent were undecided). And a poll by Tony Fabrizio, a former pollster for Donald Trump's election campaign, among Republicans listed Ron DeSantis as the number two candidate for the Republican Party. Right behind the ex-US president.
The current accusation by critics in the case of a controversial "anti-riot law" fits into this situation. The reasoning: The Republicans inside Florida wanted to secure the votes of the Trump base above all. The Senate of Florida, which is dominated by the Republican Party, passed a so-called anti-riot law on Thursday, according to Agence France-Press. In response to the nationwide “Black Lives Matter” protests against police violence and racism. The regulation provides for stricter penalties for participating in violent demonstrations.
Opponents argued that the new law restricted freedom of expression and was primarily aimed at the black US population and other minorities.
Before it comes into effect, Ron DeSantis, in his capacity as governor, must sign the new law.
Knowing that the Trump base is also his constituent base.
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A police officer in the USA shot and killed a 20-year-old after a traffic stop. Big protests followed.
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