Florida starts turning on DeSantis

[brooklynite]

Politico

TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been untouchable for the past year as he commanded the Republican culture wars to become heir apparent to Donald Trump. The latest coronavirus surge is starting to change that.

Covid infection rates continue to climb as the state faces shortages of health care staff, morgue space and even oxygen for patients. About 16,000 people are hospitalized. Child infection rates have shot up. School districts — even in Republican strongholds — have rebelled against DeSantis’ anti-mask mandates. And cruise lines are resisting DeSantis’ vaccine passport ban. Even his recent poll numbers are slipping.


It’s new terrain for a Republican governor who defied dire expectation during the first wave of Covid-19 but has continued his hands-off approach as the more contagious Delta variant infects large swaths of Florida’s unvaccinated population.

The most recent defeat came Friday when Leon County Circuit Court Judge John Cooper ruled DeSantis can’t punish school districts for passing mask mandates, as his administration had threatened after instituting emergency rules aimed at banning mask mandates in schools. The DeSantis administration has said those districts are breaking the law, an assertion directly refuted in a blistering ruling from Cooper read from the bench during a nearly two hour hearing.

[regnaD kciN]

1. It won't matter...

I’m sure he’ll be re-elected anyway. Florida always votes about +10 R compared to poll results.

[cinematicdiversions]

3. You realize he barely won last time against a very weak candidate

And he has less voters this time around... cough cough

[mcar]

4. He "won" by about 40,000 votes last time

[ffr]

6. Currently

39,000
38,000
37,000
36,000
35,000

[mcar]

12. Ooh, dark humor

[Escurumbele]

7. I am one of those who believes he cheated, his opponent was slightly ahead in the polls

it was a surprise that DeSantis won.

[Ligyron]

11. I agree

[mcar]

13. I am too

[dchill]

18. That's the way I remember it, too.

[questionseverything]

19. It is illegal to hand count the ballots in Florida

Recounts are just running the ballots through the same machines

Until that changes repubs will win

[rso]

10. DeSantis

He won by a mere four tenths of one percent.

[mcar]

14. And yet Amendment 4, which restored voting rights

to returning citizens, won with 65% of the vote.

Go figure.

[rso]

26. DeSantis

Indeed, I was pleasantly surprised at the results of the referendum, though DeSantis and the legislature have been working hard to try to reverse the effects of the referendum.

[Irish_Dem]

30. As of today there have been 43,979 covid deaths in Florida.

[mcar]

31. Yep, more deaths than his margin of victory

Like I said, I don't get the "strategy."

[Irish_Dem]

32. I know, killing off your voters doesn't seem like a winning strategy.

But I guess he is really running for the president. And he figures he will win his state in a presidential election no matter how many of his voters he kills.

[mcar]

33. He's gotta get reelected governor first

I would think - but perhaps not.

[Irish_Dem]

34. Maybe he figures he can win by cheating, like his fellow GOPers.

[mcar]

35. That's got to be it

[Irish_Dem]

36. If killing off a big chunk of his constituents doesn't bother him, what is a little cheating to win?

[Joinfortmill]

2. This is a good thing.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. And it's about damn time. n/t

[Saoirse9]

8. STARTS? Some of us hated him from the get go.

[monkeyman1]

23. "YA THINK"

I was down there visiting the relatives & had to listen to his campaign ad's on how he was backing TFG & he was going help the floriduh people . talk about bull shit from the git go ! well , if he was running a 3rd world country , I.C.C. would have him up on mass murder charges so quick it would make your head swim ! that's fact !

[Saoirse9]

25. He's a fucking lunatic

[monkeyman1]

27. he has no business being in politics !

he is strictly a trump tail dragger that doesn't have the mentality to do the job ! his kid's go to a private school & have mask mandate's & whole nine yard's ! wtf ! all a con job to follow tfg in biggest con in American history ! bragged about his trophy wife that was a porn lady by way of Jeffrey Epstein at a party ! give me a break ! run our our ex -president'a corporate rap sheet & it'll stagger your mind ! DeSantis is a nobody but a loser ! republican saddles with him , they will lose everything ! in 22' he'll be lucky to to stay out of jail ?

[Darwins_Retriever]

9. My neighbor just drove by in his pickup

with a "DESANTS 2022' flag flying. I was suspicious when I moved in a couple months ago since he had the blue line American flag on his house.

[Traildogbob]

17. He may very well

NOT be a neighbor for long. Drape that flag over his casket. Another vote DeSatan may not get. I feel bad for ya. Trump KKKlan, DeSatan KKKlan, Gaetz, Rubio, Rick Scott, the stench in Florida must be sickening on windless days.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. What part of death don't Floridians understand? Mind-numbingly incomprehensible.

[groundloop]

16. "emergency rules aimed at banning mask mandates".... emergency my ass

The only "emergency" that rule addressed was sucking up to MAGATs.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

20. Florida - "Covid shithole"

Way to go Ron, you shithole governor.

Happy to see him maybe thrown out of office.

I’d rather see him publicly flogged but... that’s just me.

[monkeyman1]

24. best advice & can afford it - get the hell out of Florida if ya got kid's or not !

lived there !

[IronLionZion]

21. Killing off your voters is a risky strategy

[AllaN01Bear]

22. heir apperent ? following orders from lard lips .

[monkeyman1]

28. just think , the tfg can't stand ron desantis !

had some friends in Florida tell me that !!

[Blue Owl]

29. The dewormer has turned