The case for DeSantis in 2024
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The biggest issue our federal elections face is not absentee and/or early voting, which has been with us in one form another as long ago as 1980. and historically has benefited Republican candidates. The problem, as others have rightly assessed, is in the fact that many swing states in 2020 lowered their standards for mail-in voting as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. When those changes to mail-in-voting occurred in the spring of 2020, Trump—the president at the time—did little more than complain about the problem at some of his rallies.
Meanwhile, there was one Republican leader who spent the last two years addressing the problems in our election system at the state level: Ron DeSantis. Because of his visionary leadership, Florida had the cleanest election in the country in 2022. Imagine scaling his policies up and making them national as would happen if he were president.
Another argument the budding “Never DeSantis” movement is making is the false claim that DeSantis must “wait for 2028.” Destiny does not wait. Imagine if the founders had waited to declare independence from the British Empire until a more opportune time had arisen (spoiler alert: life rarely presents perfect moments of the kind Trumpists think DeSantis should wait for).
These arguments bely a dangerous degree of decadence on the part of those making such specious claims. Imagine the chutzpah it takes for one to insist, as everything is burning, that our best and brightest should “wait their turn” to step forward. Simply to protect the bruised ego of a former president whose negative attributes now outstrip his positive ones in the eyes of most voters?
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I will certainly support DeSantis if he is the nominee. He has done an excellent job in Florida which is outperforming blue states by a wide margin.
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