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Ron DeSantis elected governor in close race, giving victory to Donald Trump
Anthony ManPrivacy Policy
Ron DeSantis was elected governor of Florida on Tuesday, fueled by the power of President Donald Trump and propelled by the votes of Trump supporters.
By electing DeSantis, Florida voters demonstrated their support for the president, who championed the Republican nominee and repeatedly trashed Democrat Andrew Gillum, who lost.
Gillum conceded just before 11 p.m.
DeSantis’s victory is significant several ways:
Fox News. He drew national attention for a primary-season TV ad expressing his devotion to Trump, going so far as teaching one of his children how to build a border wall with cardboard blocks and reading to one of his kids from Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal.”
The president was an enthusiastic booster of DeSantis on Twitter. Helping DeSantis was a major focus for the president in the final six days of the campaign when he held two of his Make America Great Again rallies in Florida.
Gillum promised voters that he’d stand up to Trump. After he voted Tuesday in Tallahassee, Gillum told reporters if he’d won it would send a message to Trump and DeSantis “that the politics of hatred of division and separation, that they’ve come to an end.”
-- DeSantis is an outspoken conservative, who champions policies popular with the Republican Party’s base.
County by county vote totals for governor's race »
He said he’d cut taxes on business, boost charter schools and appoint conservatives to the state Supreme Court.
The governor-elect is an outspoken Second Amendment advocate, who opposed restrictions on gun ownership, including limits imposed by the state after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in February.
Gillum was supported by leading gun-control organizations. DeSantis had an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association.
DeSantis differs with some Republicans, however, in promising to champion the environment, including cleaning up the Everglades and finding ways to reduce the blue-green algae and red tide fouling many of the state’s waters.
-- He continues Republican dominance of the governor’s office. The Democrats haven’t won an election for Florida governor since 1994.
The new governor will be in an extraordinary position to change state government, first by appointing three justices to the Florida Supreme Court. Later in his term, he’ll be in a position sign into law a map of new Florida’s congressional districts when they’re redrawn to reflect population changes uncovered in the 2020 census.
DeSantis was one of the most conservative members of the U.S. House in his three terms, until he resigned in September. He came to prominence among Republicans as a frequent guest on Fox News, where he praised everything the Trump did and slammed critics of the president. Trump came to his aid, pushing DeSantis to victory in the Republican primary.
Trump’s support helped — and hurt — DeSantis.
Roger Casado, a Republican from Plantation, said he voted for DeSantis because of the stamp of approval from the president. “Trump sponsored him, endorsed him,” he said.
Rich Gutzky, of Fort Lauderdale, also voted for DeSantis. “That was easy. I’m a Republican. I like his fiscal policies and his border policies,” Gutzky said. “Trump’s endorsement had a big impact on my voting for DeSantis. Trump has us on the right track.”
Trump’s support for DeSantis turned off some voters.
Matt Wallach, a Democrat from Boca Raton, said he was sticking with his party and voting for Gillum. “I can’t stand anymore what’s going on. It’s disgusting.”
“The man’s insane,” Terezinha Andrade, a no party affiliation voter from Boca Raton, said about Trump. “If he was more stable, I wouldn’t have anything against him.”
Gillum was dogged throughout the campaign by questions about his ethics, including his acceptance of tickets to the Broadway musical “Hamilton” from someone who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent investigating possible corruption in Tallahassee government, where Gillum is mayor. He also faced questions about his travel to Costa Rica with lobbyists.
Gillum said he hadn’t done anything wrong and wasn’t the target of an FBI investigation, but DeSantis and Trump repeatedly cited the ethical cloud to sow doubts about the Democratic nominee. The president called Gillum “a thief.”
The ethical questions resonated with Casado, who said he was concerned about “possible corruption, that he accepted gifts, money and tickets.”
The campaign was marked by racial tensions from the beginning. The morning after DeSantis and Gillum won their primaries, the Republican was back on Fox News, where he told Florida voters not to “monkey this up” by embracing the Democrat’s policies. The NAACP and others denounced the comment as racist, a charge the DeSantis camp rejected.
On the final weekend of the campaign, Trump’s agriculture secretary, Sonny Perdue, a former governor of Georgia, was on the campaign trail in Florida for DeSantis when he said the election is “cotton-pickin’ important to the state of Florida.”
Especially in its final weeks, the DeSantis campaign was negative. At an Oct. 28 campaign rally in Coral Springs, for example, DeSantis spent most of his speech outlining what was wrong with Gillum, prompting shouts of “lock him up” from the crowd.
DeSantis also sought to make inroads with Jewish voters, long a constituency important to Democrats. If elected, he told a campaign event at a Broward synagogue, he’s “that very day we will have the most pro-Israel governor in America here in Florida.
The result is also a rebuke to former President Barack Obama and a long list of national progressive Democrats, all of whom came to Florida to support Gillum.
Gillum was just what many Democrats wanted in a candidate. “We need Gillum in Tallahassee leading the state. DeSantis is bad for the state,” said Kellie Kilgore of Pompano Beach.
Gillum provided Democrats with something they hadn’t had in several gubernatorial elections, said Broward state Sen. Gary Farmer, adding that his party hadn’t experienced the level of excitement since Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.
“The last few gubernatorial cycles, we failed to excite our base,” Farmer said. “You couldn’t have a clearer choice.”
DeSantis has an Ivy League education, holding degrees from Yale and from Harvard Law School. He served in the U.S. Navy as an officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He was first elected to U.S. Congress in 2012 and represents a district that includes the Daytona Beach area. He resigned in September.
He started running for U.S. Senate in 2016 when U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was running for president. When Rubio lost the presidential nomination, DeSantis ran for re-election to the House and began eyeing the governor’s office.
DeSantis is 40, which means he’ll bring a generational shift to the leadership of Florida. The governor-elect will be youngest Florida chief executive in more than a century.
@Desert Fox @Talwar e Pakistan @Nilgiri @KAL-EL @AyanRay @Rajesh Kumar @Aryan0395 @Tshering22
Anthony ManPrivacy Policy
Ron DeSantis was elected governor of Florida on Tuesday, fueled by the power of President Donald Trump and propelled by the votes of Trump supporters.
By electing DeSantis, Florida voters demonstrated their support for the president, who championed the Republican nominee and repeatedly trashed Democrat Andrew Gillum, who lost.
Gillum conceded just before 11 p.m.
DeSantis’s victory is significant several ways:
Fox News. He drew national attention for a primary-season TV ad expressing his devotion to Trump, going so far as teaching one of his children how to build a border wall with cardboard blocks and reading to one of his kids from Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal.”
The president was an enthusiastic booster of DeSantis on Twitter. Helping DeSantis was a major focus for the president in the final six days of the campaign when he held two of his Make America Great Again rallies in Florida.
Gillum promised voters that he’d stand up to Trump. After he voted Tuesday in Tallahassee, Gillum told reporters if he’d won it would send a message to Trump and DeSantis “that the politics of hatred of division and separation, that they’ve come to an end.”
-- DeSantis is an outspoken conservative, who champions policies popular with the Republican Party’s base.
County by county vote totals for governor's race »
He said he’d cut taxes on business, boost charter schools and appoint conservatives to the state Supreme Court.
The governor-elect is an outspoken Second Amendment advocate, who opposed restrictions on gun ownership, including limits imposed by the state after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in February.
Gillum was supported by leading gun-control organizations. DeSantis had an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association.
DeSantis differs with some Republicans, however, in promising to champion the environment, including cleaning up the Everglades and finding ways to reduce the blue-green algae and red tide fouling many of the state’s waters.
-- He continues Republican dominance of the governor’s office. The Democrats haven’t won an election for Florida governor since 1994.
The new governor will be in an extraordinary position to change state government, first by appointing three justices to the Florida Supreme Court. Later in his term, he’ll be in a position sign into law a map of new Florida’s congressional districts when they’re redrawn to reflect population changes uncovered in the 2020 census.
DeSantis was one of the most conservative members of the U.S. House in his three terms, until he resigned in September. He came to prominence among Republicans as a frequent guest on Fox News, where he praised everything the Trump did and slammed critics of the president. Trump came to his aid, pushing DeSantis to victory in the Republican primary.
Trump’s support helped — and hurt — DeSantis.
Roger Casado, a Republican from Plantation, said he voted for DeSantis because of the stamp of approval from the president. “Trump sponsored him, endorsed him,” he said.
Rich Gutzky, of Fort Lauderdale, also voted for DeSantis. “That was easy. I’m a Republican. I like his fiscal policies and his border policies,” Gutzky said. “Trump’s endorsement had a big impact on my voting for DeSantis. Trump has us on the right track.”
Trump’s support for DeSantis turned off some voters.
Matt Wallach, a Democrat from Boca Raton, said he was sticking with his party and voting for Gillum. “I can’t stand anymore what’s going on. It’s disgusting.”
“The man’s insane,” Terezinha Andrade, a no party affiliation voter from Boca Raton, said about Trump. “If he was more stable, I wouldn’t have anything against him.”
Gillum was dogged throughout the campaign by questions about his ethics, including his acceptance of tickets to the Broadway musical “Hamilton” from someone who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent investigating possible corruption in Tallahassee government, where Gillum is mayor. He also faced questions about his travel to Costa Rica with lobbyists.
Gillum said he hadn’t done anything wrong and wasn’t the target of an FBI investigation, but DeSantis and Trump repeatedly cited the ethical cloud to sow doubts about the Democratic nominee. The president called Gillum “a thief.”
The ethical questions resonated with Casado, who said he was concerned about “possible corruption, that he accepted gifts, money and tickets.”
The campaign was marked by racial tensions from the beginning. The morning after DeSantis and Gillum won their primaries, the Republican was back on Fox News, where he told Florida voters not to “monkey this up” by embracing the Democrat’s policies. The NAACP and others denounced the comment as racist, a charge the DeSantis camp rejected.
On the final weekend of the campaign, Trump’s agriculture secretary, Sonny Perdue, a former governor of Georgia, was on the campaign trail in Florida for DeSantis when he said the election is “cotton-pickin’ important to the state of Florida.”
Especially in its final weeks, the DeSantis campaign was negative. At an Oct. 28 campaign rally in Coral Springs, for example, DeSantis spent most of his speech outlining what was wrong with Gillum, prompting shouts of “lock him up” from the crowd.
DeSantis also sought to make inroads with Jewish voters, long a constituency important to Democrats. If elected, he told a campaign event at a Broward synagogue, he’s “that very day we will have the most pro-Israel governor in America here in Florida.
The result is also a rebuke to former President Barack Obama and a long list of national progressive Democrats, all of whom came to Florida to support Gillum.
Gillum was just what many Democrats wanted in a candidate. “We need Gillum in Tallahassee leading the state. DeSantis is bad for the state,” said Kellie Kilgore of Pompano Beach.
Gillum provided Democrats with something they hadn’t had in several gubernatorial elections, said Broward state Sen. Gary Farmer, adding that his party hadn’t experienced the level of excitement since Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.
“The last few gubernatorial cycles, we failed to excite our base,” Farmer said. “You couldn’t have a clearer choice.”
DeSantis has an Ivy League education, holding degrees from Yale and from Harvard Law School. He served in the U.S. Navy as an officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He was first elected to U.S. Congress in 2012 and represents a district that includes the Daytona Beach area. He resigned in September.
He started running for U.S. Senate in 2016 when U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was running for president. When Rubio lost the presidential nomination, DeSantis ran for re-election to the House and began eyeing the governor’s office.
DeSantis is 40, which means he’ll bring a generational shift to the leadership of Florida. The governor-elect will be youngest Florida chief executive in more than a century.
@Desert Fox @Talwar e Pakistan @Nilgiri @KAL-EL @AyanRay @Rajesh Kumar @Aryan0395 @Tshering22
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