Gov. Ron DeSantis is poised to position himself as a champion of conservative causes during a State of the State address that will likely be as much about his national ambitions as an assessment of Florida’s status.
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis sits with his family before addressing supporters at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., March 5, 2023.
Instead of focusing on rising rents and cost of living, a property insurance market that’s in distress and preparing for rising sea levels in the state that’s most vulnerable to climate change, DeSantis will kick off a session where the GOP will push issues like telling teachers what pronouns they can use for students, making guns more available to Floridians, keeping immigrants that are in the country illegally out of the state and criminalizing some drag shows, as Tennessee recently did.
DeSantis acknowledges that his decisions as governor are based on what he thinks is right and not necessarily what’s popular in the mainstream. He said that’s why he was able to turn a 32,000-vote, recount-confirmed victory in 2018 into a 1.5 million vote victory last year — the largest margin a Republican governor has ever won in the state.
When he shuns mainstream media in favor of friendly conservative outlets, the more mainstream media covers him. And he has the luxury of not having to make a presidential run “official” at this point. DeSantis’ State of the State is sure to include some of the same “anti-woke, pro-freedom” messages he’s taken around the country. While critics argue that he has taken freedom from marginalized groups, it’s become a catch word for the governor.
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