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The Republican Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantismade the announcement of his presidential run for the 2024 election on Wednesday and expanded his political ideas like “Free Florida” to a national dimension.
The Florida-born governor, a 44-year-old Navy veteran who has been elected to the House three times, won a landslide re-election for governor in 2022 and has pushed his agenda far to the right in the state.
DeSantis wields power very aggressively, such as by removing an elected prosecutor and putting a board he appointed in charge of the Walt Disney World property. He has passed laws that challenge the pillars of democracy, restricting access to the vote and creating a police force to prosecute voter fraud, he has decided how education should be provided in Florida, he has restricted the right to abortion by signing a law that prohibits most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
Many of the Governor’s policies have impacted marginalized groups and minoritiesincluding banning a course on African-American history, transporting immigrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, reducing health care for transgender people, and reshaping Florida’s education system, from kindergarten to college, to limit the way issues of race and the LGBTQ community are discussed.
And on Wednesday, when announcing his candidacy for the Presidency, He vowed to lead America to a “Great Comeback” should he win the White House.
“I’m running for president to lead our Great American Comeback,” DeSantis wrote on his Twitter account, accompanied by what is his first official campaign video for the Republican primaries, in which his former mentor, former President Donald Trump (2017- 2021), is the favorite.
During his hour-long conversation with Elon Musk and tech entrepreneur David Sacks, a DeSantis campaign donor, The Republican presidential candidate deployed many of the postulates in favor of freedom and against “ideological indoctrination.”
“If they nominate me I will do the job,” DeSantis promised in a chat followed by more than 300,000 people on Twitter that had technological failures and in which he promised reverse the immigration policies of the Biden Administration, among others, and no hints were kept against Trump: “Government is not entertainment. It is not about building a brand or pointing out virtues”.
The governor also responded to the Florida travel alert issued over the weekend by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) calling it a “political stunt.”
In this context, DeSantis defended the low crime rates in the state and the high reading rates of the African-American population in the schools of this state.
DeSantis highlighted Twitter’s position regarding freedoms and recalled the criticism that the governor faced when he established his policies against covid-19, contrary to confinements and the mandatory use of masks.
“I think what was done with Twitter was significant for the future of our country,” DeSantis said, clearly alluding to the moment the social network became property of Musk.
DeSantis also signed, shortly before announcing his candidacy, a package of 20 state laws, among which SB 7050 stands out, that exempts candidates for president or vice president from the obligation to resign from the position they hold before running for office.
DeSantis goes to the campaign for the 2024 elections with the letter of presentation of the laws approved during his second term as governor, after winning re-election last year with historic figures and securing a Republican “supermajority” in both chambers of the state Legislative.
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