Associated Press
Chatting with a mom in a New Hampshire diner on Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis paid no attention to the Mickey Mouse shirt worn by her young son. But the woman said she has been paying attention to him.
“If DeSantis announced a campaign to run for President I would probably vote for him over anybody else,” Jillian Sybert, of Deerfield, said later.
DeSantis made the swing to the early voting state as he prepares to launch a 2024 Republican presidential campaign. He spent the morning meeting with state GOP lawmakers still licking their wounds a day after the New Hampshire House rejected a bill that would have required school officials to inform inquiring parents if their child was using a different name or being referred to as a different gender.
Republicans hold a razor-thin majority in the 400-member House, but Democrats had a one-vote edge in attendance for Thursday’s session.
In contrast, GOP supermajorities in the Florida Statehouse have helped DeSantis push through an aggressive agenda on multiple fronts, including gender identity, and he has made anti-LGBTQ+ legislation a large part of his messaging as he prepares to seek the Republican presidential nomination. He signed bills Wednesday that ban gender-affirming care for minors, target drag shows, restrict discussion of personal pronouns in schools and force people to use certain bathrooms.
“We just completed what I would say is the boldest and most far-reaching agenda that we’ve seen in the modern history of the Republican Party,” DeSantis told about 30 New Hampshire lawmakers in Bedford.
Their ensuing discussion was closed to the media, but one attendee said he thinks the defeat will motivate Republicans to back DeSantis.
“We really need to push back, because that’s a big issue, and DeSantis is for it,” said state Rep. Ralph Boehm. The lawmaker said he also is a fan of former President Donald Trump but doesn’t think Trump will be able to overcome the “lies” that Boehm said are spread about him by the media.
“DeSantis, with what he’s done in Florida, is what we need for this country,” he said.
It remains to be seen how DeSantis will fare in New Hampshire, where independents can vote in the Republican primary and voters are accustomed to questioning candidates at town hall forums and other events. Trump won the GOP primary in both 2016 and 2020 but twice lost the state in the general election.
9 comments
corruption and abuse of power in Florida
May 20, 2023 at 4:19 pm
lol one person they probably got a free meal and then lied to by DeSantis said she would probably vote form 15 minutes after her meal
Give me a freaking break. DeSantis is a loser. And then the only reason he won last election was because people didn’t come out and vote.
I General Election cycle he would’ve got stomped
In five months forward with a sycophant legislators he pushed through legislation that is turn Florida into a dystopia
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F DbagSantis
May 20, 2023 at 6:11 pm
Dude just radiots creep. He should keep his flatlander ass down in meth head alley. We’re not fans of dirt bags up here.
Ron da Booger Wiper
May 20, 2023 at 10:07 pm
Did he wipe a booger on that kid too?
What a creep
May 21, 2023 at 10:51 am
This guy makes me wish his house had a co2 leak lol
MoRon
May 21, 2023 at 2:04 pm
A video of Gov. Ron DeSantis laughing uproariously at an Iowa reception has been making the rounds, but at home, Floridians aren’t laughing. Not after Disney’s announcement that it’s pulling the plug on a $1.3-billion plan to relocate 2,000 high-paying jobs to a big office complex in Orlando.
The shrapnel from Disney’s announcement isn’t limited to the shelving of its plans for a massive campus in Lake Nona or the loss of jobs that carried an average salary of $120,000. It’s also the upswing in commercial real estate and homebuilding that would have created thousands more jobs to support those affluent residents. It extends to the dreams of students at UCF and local colleges who hoped to join the ranks of Disney’s famed Imagineers.
All gone.
Dont Say FLA
May 22, 2023 at 10:48 am
And Rhonda spins it as a positive, keeping those undesirable college educated types out of Florida, same as with those Tesla space jobs he shook off from Florida. We don’t want no colledge edumacated types here, boasts Ivy League Ron, graduate of both Yarvard and Hale. The words coming out Ron’s mouth do not pass the smell test. Casey’s nose must have been destroyed by snorting meth.
Leave Flee Or Die
May 22, 2023 at 2:18 pm
Florida is the New Hampshire of… Florida. “Leave, flee or die.”
MoRon DeSantis
May 22, 2023 at 6:23 pm
“I’m waiting for DeSantis to show me an economic prosperity agenda,” Kudlow said. “This is going to be a pocketbook election. This is going to be a kitchen table election. And the candidate who has a good, strong, pro-growth, pro-prosperity agenda is going to win.”
Kudlow chided DeSantis over his vendetta against Disney – one of Florida’s largest employers – after the company opposed legislation he signed into law last year.
“It is all about attacking a company in his state named Disney,” he continued. “He won’t let up. Conservative free market people don’t attack businesses. They do promote jobs and businesses. He hasn’t done that.”
“Everything about Florida that you love – Desantis inherited,” Simone said. “The no state tax, all that stuff. He’s done a great job of running it. But most of that was inherited. You watch DeSantis turn Disney into World War III. Imagine what he would do with Putin. This guy has got problems. He’d be great in 2028. Wait ’til then.”
Hegseth chimed in to hit DeSantis over his handling of questions about Ukraine.
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