by Sundance
Perhaps it’s the Ron DeSantis national pretending 2024 campaign driven by a “book tour.” Perhaps it’s the international travel that distracts a sitting governor from supporting a Republican candidate in the largest geographic metropolitan area in the state. Whatever the reason, the Jacksonville Florida mayoral contest was won by a Democrat, Donna Deegan.
I have warned, against some of the most vitriolic pushback, that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is setting up the state of Florida for some major problems in the future. There are lots of granular points that I can reference, but the bigger picture they create is one that will be very damaging in the future. The class division in Florida, the distance between the haves and have-nots, is growing exponentially.
Lower and middle-income Floridians are being crushed as the ‘Instagram selfie-my-lunch’ crowd, the largest coalition of support for Ron DeSantis, ignores it.
Believe me on this, DeSantis Republicans representing the financially elite and being condescendingly dismissive of the non-elite, is not a path to future Republican electoral victory. From my perspective the backlash is visible. It only takes a few thousand voters staying home in protest to make a difference.
Those same enforcement police, newly empowered with tools against ANTIFA woke protests, will hold those same tools when it’s Joe the plumber protesting his economic status.
JACKSONVILLE – Democrat Donna Deegan won the Jacksonville mayor’s race Tuesday night, a shocking upset that hands Florida Democrats a major shot of energy less than six months after they were trounced in the 2022 midterms and considered left for dead by the national party.
Deegan came into Election Day as the decided underdog against Republican Daniel Davis, who is the head of the city’s Chamber of Commerce and had a significant fundraising advantage. He was endorsed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, but that support was lukewarm. DeSantis did not do events with Davis or put his political muscle behind his candidacy.
With all of the city’s 186 precincts reporting, Deegan had a 52% to 48% advantage over Davis, who was vying to replace current Republican Mayor Lenny Curry, who was term-limited. “Everyone said it could not be done in Jacksonville, Florida,” Deegan said, according to video of her victory speech. “We did it because we brought the people inside.” (read more)
Ron DeSantis has checked-out of his job in Florida. A tiara dreaming Casey DeSantis is measuring the drapes in the White House. The billionaire donors are pumping them both up.
The Florida middle class is being destroyed at the fastest rate in the state’s history. The lower socioeconomic group is looking for snorkel extensions, and the illegal alien workers, who support the lifestyle indulgences of the affluent class, are being targeted for removal.
Jacksonville was the only large city in the U.S. NOT to be run by a dem so this may be reading more into it than is necessary. DeSantis would make a great POTUS but at this point, I think he better serves the cause by keeping Florida solid Red and by setting the example for other Republican governors on how to take on the Communist dems head on and win. Assuming PT can overcome the massive dem and DS voter fraud operation this time around, he will have his hands full. Destroying the DS will need to be a priority, if not the most important one. With all the other messes he’ll have to clean up, he’ll need a good right hand man as VP to take on the role of taking out the DS. That person will need to have an integral knowledge of how it works and not be tied to the RINO’s. That man is General Michael Flynn.
Yeah, Jacksonville hasn’t had the taste of ruinous leftism.
If Trump wins again (for the third time), he needs to surround himself with ruthless people. They need to make sure staff and cabinet are absolutely loyal to the Constitution and serving the citizens first, foremost and only.
For sure. He made some bad choices the worst of which was probably Bill Barr.
Barr was a bigger traitor than pence
The whole Durham investigation was to cover for his buddies which is why Durham was given the mission to write a report, not to prosecute. He knew from the start they were all guilty of trying to overthrow the sitting POTUS. Remember the public Barr-Comey spat? That was probably all staged.
I think the one I thought had the most hope for that disappointed the most was Mattis.
Yes and also Jeff sessions. He was good as a senator but no so much as AG.
Agreed. His choices for SCOTUS turned out to be somewhat disappointing with the exception of Gorusch. We should have a clear cut 5-4 conservative majority on the bench and we don’t.