Florida’s population continues to boom, but many of the state’s new residents are older and come from parts of the country friendlier toward Republicans. Before last November’s presidential election, Republicans had narrowed the registration gap with Democrats to about 117,000. On Election Day four years earlier, Democrats had a 327,000 voter registration lead. Since then, Republicans have continued to gain with the Democratic advantage now barely over 100,000.
Both sides will try to nationalize the race, partly to draw support from big-money donors from outside the state. For DeSantis, it’s also about raising his national profile.
That of course, probably will become a line of attack for Crist and Fried, who accuse DeSantis of being more interested in pursuing his political ambitions than in tackling the concerns of Floridians.
As he heads into his 2022 reelection campaign, Florida's Ron DeSantis has emerged from the political uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic as arguably the country’s most prominent Republican governor.
As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis struggled to contain the coronavirus pandemic, Democrats readied to pounce. The state's economy was in tatters, infections and deaths were on the rise and there were doubts about the Republican's plan to lead Florida out of crisis. Now that the pandemic appears to be waning and DeSantis is heading into his reelection campaign next year, he has emerged from the political uncertainty as one of the most prominent Republican governors and an early White House front-runner in 2024 among Donald Trump's acolytes, if the former president doesn't run again.
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Trump’s Battle to Win the First 100 Days
The former president has been on an increasingly manic crusade to knock his successor and buff his own battered legacy.
Illustrations by Barry Blitt
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There’s not just one 100-day clock that’s reached its peak this week there are two.
First, of course, is Joe Biden’s the collective assessment of what he’s said and done since his inauguration as the 46th president on January 20.
Then, though, there is Trump’s the
45th president’s first 100 days as the antipope of Mar-a-Lago. On full display has been his guiding, lifelong, zero-sum belief: For there to be a winner, there must also be a loser and if Biden is the one, then Trump is the other. And as this arbitrary but important and traditional mile-marker has gotten closer and closer as Biden’s ambitious agenda has continued to elicit higher favorability ratings and polling numbers and early comparisons to some of history’s most eff