Ron DeSantis
February 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
It is all over but the shouting in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, so it is reasonable for attention to turn to Donald Trump’s choice of a running mate. As Trump himself has pointed out, vice presidential picks generally have little or no impact on presidential races. Still, given the advanced age of the prospective nominees, voters might pay a little more attention than usual to their choices
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January 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Donald Trump. It is, I think, a bitter day for the Republican Party and for America. This election season started with high hopes. DeSantis was, I thought, an excellent candidate with an unparalleled record of success. He would have made a fine president and may still, one day. But for now, we are stuck with Trump. I have voted
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December 7, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Scott and I have been writing together for many years, and a consistent theme of our partnership has been that I am an optimist, while Scott–it is fair to say–is not. So not surprisingly, my view of last night’s GOP debate is a little more optimistic than Scott’s. I admit I might be whistling past the graveyard at this point, but I hold out hope that come 2025, we might
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November 28, 2023 — Steven Hayward
As everyone knows, this Thursday Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis will square off in a debate on Fox News that is clearly meant to be a proxy for the presidential race a lot of people in both parties wish we would have next year. Think of it as the undercard for the heavyweight bout to follow between the aging champs hanging on past their prime. Don’t underestimate Newsom: he’ll come
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September 4, 2023 — John Hinderaker
As always, the Democrats are trying to make political hay out of a natural disaster, in this case Hurricane Idalia. The fact is that hurricanes have not increased in either frequency or severity, but that doesn’t stop the ghoulish liberals. A reporter asked Governor Ron DeSantis about Joe Biden’s politicization of Idalia, and DeSantis responded beautifully: NEW: DeSantis scathes blaming climate change for #Idalia, saying the most powerful storm for
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September 3, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
Two days after the Aug. 23 Republican primary debate, a poll showed that support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had jumped by 7 points in the state of Iowa. The headline at Fox News screamed, “Iowa poll shows Florida gov closing the gap on Trump after first Republican debate.” Excited about his post-debate bounce, I was all set to write about it until I saw that the poll had been
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August 9, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Under Ron DeSantis’s leadership, Florida has attained the enviable status of the state that liberals most like to hate, and to denigrate irrationally. Thus it is no surprise to see this headline: Pro-woke professors leave Florida universities in protest. The Tampa Bay Times reported on a July meeting of the Florida Board of Governors. During the meeting, a number of professors expressed concern about the political climate in Florida. Professors
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August 3, 2023 — Steven Hayward
With Donald Trump sucking all the oxygen out of the GOP tent with his ongoing dramas, Gov. DeSantis made a smart move yesterday by accepting the challenge to debate California Governor Gavin Newsom one-on-one. It’s a great idea, as it not only features a generational shift from the old guys currently in the lead, but may also contrast with Trump’s possible boycott of the first GOP debate scheduled for next
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August 1, 2023 — Steven Hayward
One of the largest political anomalies of our moment is that our economy is, by the standard general measures, doing okay or maybe slightly better than okay given the impact of our misbegotten COVID policies that killed so many small businesses. But a majority of Americans think it isn’t. Employment and economic output are finally back to the favorable levels reached before COVID, and while inflation is still too high
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July 27, 2023 — Steven Hayward
I recall Daniel Oliver telling the story of being appointed chairman of the Federal Trade Commission by President Reagan, and immediately downsizing the FTC staff and curtailing its harassment of business. Sure enough, the Washington Post ran a front page “news” story a few weeks later about how Oliver had “brought the FTC to a standstill.” Dan said, “It was my proudest moment. Reagan appointees called up from other agencies
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July 16, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Jennifer Rubin is a left-wing columnist for the Washington Post. So, naturally, she hates Ron DeSantis. On Friday, she published a column arguing that DeSantis’s conservative policies endanger Florida’s economy. The headline was, “Florida might pay for MAGA cruelty and know-nothingism.” Just another objective day at the office at WaPo! Unfortunately, her entire column was based on a grotesque factual error. The Washington Post has had to post a correction
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July 9, 2023 — Steven Hayward
The Wall Street Journal reports today: DeSantis Campaign Stalls as He Tries to Court Trump’s GOP Fans and Foes Alike Six weeks after launching his campaign, DeSantis has stalled. His support in national polls has stayed flat, despite increased travel and advertising and widespread expectations that he would be a formidable challenger to Trump. Signs also have emerged that he is struggling to gain traction in the states that will
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June 6, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a far-left hate group with zero credibility. The people who run it are grifters: for a “poverty” organization it has a remarkable amount of money stashed in offshore accounts. SPLC literally doesn’t know what to do with all of the money that rich people and corporations shower on it. I am hoping defamation lawsuits can take up the slack. SPLC’s childishly simple dodge is
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June 3, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Remember when Donald Trump made opposition to political correctness a hallmark of his 2016 campaign? That seems like the quaint, good old days. Now we are dealing with the Woke, a small but vicious and often violent minority who are bullying their way into power, often with a frightening degree of success. Who is taking on the woke fascists? More than anyone else, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. As he created
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June 1, 2023 — John Hinderaker
That the Democrats are scared to death of Ron DeSantis is evident from the quality of their attacks on him. They don’t want to talk about his record as governor; from their perspective, the less said about that the better. So they have launched one silly broadside after another. But this one takes the cake. It comes from Axios, a web site for the mentally below average: Dee-Santis or Deh-Santis?
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May 27, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
Methinks they protest too much. It took about a nanosecond for the legacy media, former President Donald Trump, and his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination to pounce following the launch of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign on Wednesday evening. True, the technical glitches which delayed the livestream event weren’t exactly ideal and it was a missed opportunity for DeSantis. But the derision that has ensued is way out of
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May 24, 2023 — Steven Hayward
When I first saw this headline appear on Twitter, I assumed it was fake. But no—it is real. Take a bow, Vanity Fair: The author of this trenchant piece is Bess Levin, whom I have never heard of either, but Vanity Fair describes her as “An essential voice of our current tragicomedy, she is an incisive, hilarious daily narrator of the horrors that never seem to stop. If you need
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