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As DeSantisâ GOP star rises, the money is following. He raised $2.7 million in February.
It was his largest monthly haul since he was sworn in as governor in 2019.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference following the State of the State address during the joint session of the Florida Legislature at the Capitol in Tallahassee on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. [ IVY CEBALLO | Times ]
Updated Mar. 4
The national stature of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is rising swiftly among the countryâs Republicans, and the checks from deep-pocketed donors are following.
His political committee, Friends of Ron DeSantis, brought in $2.7 million in February, its largest monthly haul â by far â since the Republican was sworn in as governor two years ago. Itâs the latest signal that DeSantis is putting the pandemic in the rear-view mirror and shifting focus to his political future.
Once a template for a governor's serious long-range policy agenda, the annual State of the State speech has devolved to red-meat talking points. In his speech, Gov. DeSantis highlighted his divisive, racially charged anti-mob bill, his CPAC-ready crusade against Facebook and other tech giants, and pap about voting integrity that only makes it harder for Democrats to vote by mail in the 2022 election, when DeSantis himself is on the ballot.
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No political policy but revenge: How the Big Lie and its acolytes threaten the survival of our democracy
Conservative pundit William Kristol wrote in “The Bulwark” on March 1 what a number of us have been saying for a while now, and it dovetails cleanly with the current Republican attempt to suppress voting. Kristol warns that our democracy is in crisis.
For the first time in our history, we have failed to have a peaceful transfer of power. The Republican Party launched a coup which fortunately failed and “now claims that the current administration is illegitimately elected, the result of massive, coordinated fraud. The logical extension of this position would seem to be that the American constitutional order deserving of our allegiance no longer exists.”
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