Ron DeSantis Drops Out of Republican Presidential Race

THE GUARDIAN: Hard-right Florida governor at one point thought to be future of party ends campaign to be GOP nominee

Ron DeSantis, the hard-right governor of Florida, has ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsed Donald Trump.

“It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,” he said in a statement posted on X. “He has my endorsement because we can’t go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”

DeSantis’s withdrawal in the days ahead of the New Hampshire primary follows a disappointing result in the Iowa caucus, where he finished second place but trailed Donald Trump by a large margin. In New Hampshire, his numbers were far behind former South Carolina governor Haley and Trump.

The withdrawal was the culmination of a long, agonising decline. » | Martin Pengelly in Washington | Sinday, January 21, 2024

Where Donald Trump, Nikki Haley & Ron DeSantis Stand before the Iowa Caucuses | The Warning

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The Observer View on Ron DeSantis, Shakespeare and Sex: ‘Man, Proud Man… Most Ignorant of What He’s Most Assur’d’

THE OBSERVER – EDITORIAL: Application of the Florida governor’s ‘don’t say gay’ law has led to the banning of plays such as Romeo and Juliet in some schools

You imagine that Shakespeare might have had some fun with Ronald Dion DeSantis. The Florida governor is attempting to win the Republican nomination for the US presidency by first stoking nasty and divisive “culture wars”. His campaign would no doubt have been fertile ground for a writer who delighted in dramatising the self-destructive fallout of “vaulting ambition” and in ruthlessly exposing the “smile and smile and be a villain” strategies of grinning populists.

The latest application of the governor’s homophobic 2022 “Parental Rights in Education Act” – widely known as the “don’t say gay” law because it prohibits discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in classrooms – has led some Florida school boards to remove Shakespeare plays from the curriculum and the library, in order to avoid anything “racy or sexual”. Romeo and Juliet has been deemed beyond the pale in this regard (and don’t get the governor and his book-banning minions started on the non-binary shenanigans in Twelfth Night and As You Like It). Floridian students will therefore no longer be free to spend enlightening afternoons pondering the textual notes to Mercutio’s various pieces of amorous advice to his pal, Romeo: “If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down”; or, that favourite of school students down the ages: “If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. /Now will he sit under a medlar tree,/ And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit/ as maids call medlars when they laugh alone./ Romeo that she were, O, that she were/ An open-arse, or thou a popp’rin pear.” » | Observer editorial | Sunday, August 13, 2023

Buttigieg Blasts DeSantis for Campaign Ad | #shorts

Click here to hear Pete Buttigieg put down DeSantis.

Florida Suffers Consequences of DeSantis Political Games with Public Health

Jul 7, 2023 | Alex Wagner shares exclusive NBC News reporting on the resignation of two key Florida state health officials who have yet to be replaced as the state is facing the first instances of native malaria transmission in decades and DeSantis has installed a scientifically dubious state surgeon general in a bid to curry favor with the anti-vaccine radicals he hopes will support him over Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary.

Fed Up Pete Buttigieg Delivers KNOCKOUT Blow to Ron DeSantis

Jul 3, 2023

”Ron DeSantis Has Had a Humiliating Collapse and Shown He’s Not Ready for Prime Time" | #shorts

Click here to hear what Steve Schmidt has to say.

DeSantis’s Stalling Campaign: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

Ron DeSantis remains publicly upbeat: ‘Biden beats Trump in the swing states and I beat Biden handily in the swing states. That’s ultimately the election right there. Photograph: Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
THE GUARDIAN: Florida governor launched his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential pick as Trump’s main challenger but finds himself sinking in the polls

Among the books still available in Florida despite Ron DeSantis’s ongoing purge of “unsuitable” material is one the Republican governor might want to peruse.

Dale Carnegie’s 1936 bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People would appear to be the antithesis of DeSantis’s stuttering push for his party’s 2024 presidential nomination, as Donald Trump’s closest challenger traverses the country turning off voters to his dull personality and extremist policies.

By almost every measure, the rightwinger has had another lackluster week on the campaign trail, with “clumsy” missteps in New Hampshire, Texas, California and New York. Now, barely one month after his glitch-ridden launch on Twitter, DeSantis finds himself sinking in the polls, closer to the large field of optimists below him than the twice-indicted, twice-impeached former president who retains a stranglehold over the Republican party. » | Richard Luscombe in Miami | Sunday, July 2, 2023

DeSantis Is Pathetic!

Nicole Wallace shows how pathetic and stupid DeSantis is. Check it out here.

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Jun 7, 2023 | Florida's Governor, who's in the running for the Republican presidential nomination, has repeatedly t

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Ron DeSantis’ Pastor Says Gay People Should Be “Put to Death”

LGBTQNATION: The pastor tweeted in support of Uganda's new "Kill the Gays" law.

Tom Ascol | Photo: YouTube screenshot
The pastor who delivered the invocation at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R) second inauguration has said that gay people should be put to death.

Tom Ascol — senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida — made his comment on Twitter while criticizing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). On Monday, Cruz issued a tweet criticizing Uganda’s new “Anti-Homosexuality Act,” a law that punishes “aggravated homosexuality” with death.

Cruz’s tweet called the law “horrific & wrong,” adding, “Any law criminalizing homosexuality or imposing the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’ is grotesque & an abomination. ALL civilized nations should join together in condemning this human rights abuse.”

Ascol disagreed, writing on Tuesday, “Tell it to God, Ted.” » | Daniel Villarreal | Friday, June 2, 2023

This "dude" is supposed to be a 'man of the cloth'. But, to put it into disgusting American jargon, he's "kinda" ignorant and "kinda" stupid. He needs to go back to seminary (if he ever attended one) in order to re-learn the theology and lessons of true Christianity.

I've got news for this ignorant, cruel dude. Jesus never spoke of putting anyone to death. On the contrary, Jesus spoke of compassion and mercy, saying:

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. KJV: King James Version, John 8:7

You, Sir, are a disgrace! An embarrassment to the Christian world. – © Mark Alexander

'What Happened to Donald Trump': DeSantis Goes on the Offensive

May 26, 2023 | Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, now officially a candidate for president, is no longer tiptoeing around former President Donald Trump – nor is he being shy about his plans to flex the powers of the presidency like never before if he wins the White House.

DeSantis Joins 2024 Presidential Race

May 24, 2023 | Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has entered the 2024 presidential race. He’s stepping into a crowded Republican primary contest that will test his national appeal as a cultural conservative firebrand and the party’s willingness to move on from former President Donald Trump.

What is there about Americans that so many of them find themselves incapable of embracing moderate politics? – © Mark Alexander

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Disney Scraps $867m Florida Plan amid Ron DeSantis Feud – BBC News

May 18, 2023 | The Walt Disney Company has scrapped a plan to invest nearly (£806m) to build a new corporate campus in Florida, it announced. The company made the decision amid an escalating legal battle with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Disney and Florida have both sued each other in recent weeks.

MAGA Group Unleashes Devastating Ad Attacking DeSantis for Disgusting Pudding Habit

Apr 15, 2023 | Not long ago, reports said that Florida governor Ron DeSantis has a habit of eating pudding with his fingers - a claim that DeSantis has denied. But the pro-Trump PAC MAGA War Room decided to put out a devastating and disgusting ad against the governor for his habits, while also attacking him for wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare. Farron Cousins discusses the ad, and what they left out about Donald Trump.

Trump warnt DeSantis vor Kandidatur

Donald Trump am 9. November am Wahltag in Palm Beach | Bild: DPA
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FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Donald Trump warnt Floridas Gouverneur DeSantis davor, für das Präsidentenamt zu kandidieren. Er wisse mehr über den Republikaner als jeder andere – „mit Ausnahme vielleicht seiner Frau“.

Der frühere Präsident Donald Trump hat Floridas Gouverneur Ron DeSantis mit unangenehmen Enthüllungen gedroht, wenn dieser 2024 ins Rennen ums Weiße Haus gehen sollte. Er könne über DeSantis „Dinge erzählen, die nicht besonders schmeichelhaft sind“, sagte Trump am Dienstag Fox News Digital. „Ich weiß mehr über ihn als jeder andere – mit Ausnahme vielleicht seiner Frau.“ » | Quelle: dpa | Mittwoch, 9. November 2022

DeSantis Launches New Ad Claiming He Was Anointed by God

Nov 7, 2022 | With just a few days left before the midterm election, Florida governor Ron DeSantis released the cringiest new ad that proclaims that he was anointed by God to "be a protector" of the people. The ad is about as sacrilegious as you can get, but it will certainly move the faux Christians that make up the base of the Republican Party. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses the new ad.

Moral Panic, Culture Wars and Ron DeSantis: Will Florida Stay Red in 2022? | Anywhere But Washington

Oliver Laughland travels to Walt Disney World, Florida, to see how a law restricting the teaching of LGBTQ+ issues is affecting voters in the run-up to the midterm elections.

Republicans extended their majority in the state in 2020, and with far-right Governor Ron DeSantis up for re-election, will his divisive culture wars help him win a second term?

Trump Rages as Fox News Turns on MAGAWorld

Jul 29, 2022 The tug-of-war within Fox News continues as the network ignores a Trump speech to air Ron DeSantis instead. The former President hitting back and reportedly “tracking which hosts he can count on.” MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the devastating shift for Trump. Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson joins, adding: “Trump] sits in Mar-A-Lago and throws things at the walls every time he sees DeSantis on Fox, which is about every 35 seconds now. He is the guy Rupert [Murdoch] has picked…"

Micky Maus wird zum LGBTQ-Aktivisten

NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: Ein neues Gesetz in Florida verbietet den Unterricht über Geschlechtsidentitäten bis zur dritten Klasse. Disney hat deshalb die Spenden an die Republikaner eingestellt und will die Vorschrift bekämpfen. Im Internet entlädt sich ein konservativer Shitstorm.

Das symbiotische Verhältnis zwischen den Micky-Maus-Erfindern und der Republikanischen Partei in Florida steht vor eine Zerreissprobe. | Alisha Jucevic / Bloomberg
Die Beziehung zwischen der in Florida dominierenden Republikanischen Partei und der Walt Disney Company gestaltete sich bisher weitgehend harmonisch. Schliesslich ist der Unterhaltungsriese mit seinen Vergnügungsparks einer der grössten Arbeitgeber im Sunshine State und ein Touristenmagnet. Während die Politik den Konzern mit Steuerentlastungen und anderen Privilegien unterstützte, revanchierte sich die Traumfabrik mit grosszügigen Parteispenden. Gemäss dem «Orlando Sentinel» soll Disney seit Jahresbeginn 2021 mindestens 2,2 Millionen Dollar an politische Kandidaten und Komitees in Florida überwiesen haben. Rund 80 Prozent dieser Gelder seien an die Republikaner und konservative Kreise gegangen.

Am Montag jedoch unterzeichnete der republikanische Gouverneur Ron DeSantis ein neues Gesetz, welches das symbiotische Verhältnis zwischen den Micky-Maus-Erfindern und der konservativen Mehrheitspartei in Florida vor eine Zerreissprobe stellt. Offiziell heisst die neue Regelung «Gesetz für elterliche Rechte in der Bildung». Ihre Gegner sprechen jedoch vom «Sag nicht schwul»-Gesetz, weil es den Unterricht über sexuelle Orientierungen und Geschlechtsidentitäten vom Kindergarten bis mindestens zur dritten Klasse verbietet. Hält sich eine Schulbehörde oder ein Lehrer nicht an diese Vorschrift, können Eltern gegen sie klagen. » | Christian Weisflog, Washington | Freitag, 1. April 2022

Disney's opposition to gender identity law angers DeSantis: Florida’s tetchy Republican governor Ron DeSantis is threatening retaliation against the state’s largest private employer Disney after it pledged to work to overturn the state’s controversial new “don’t say gay” law banning gender identity discussions in schools. »