The republican governor of “Sunshine State” won him 20 points ahead of his democratic opponent. He thus confirms his status as a only credible alternative to Donald Trump within the Grand Old Party.
by Arnaud Leparmentier (New York, correspondent)
In 2018, Ron Desantis had only won from a hair, by 32,463 votes, to the point that it had been necessary to recount the bulletins. Four years later, the Florida Republican Governor benefits from a tidal wave and won with 20 points ahead (59.3 % of the votes for 88 % of stripped bulletins) against his Democratic adversary Charlie Crist, former Governor of the State from 2007 to 2011. He can now claim the republican investiture for the White House.
His victory was announced by the agency AP before 9 p.m., unheard of in this old rocking state, which had given extreme accuracy the victory to George W. Bush in the year 2000. For the first time , the Republicans had more registered voters than the Democrats.
The triumph is general: even the county of Miami-Dade, who had given Hillary Clinton 29 points ahead of Donald Trump in 2016, gave himself to his republican governor, while the Latinos voted for Him more than 56 %, according to a CBS survey. In his victory speech, Mr. Desantis boasted of having “redrawn the political map”. The Republican of Florida Marco Rubio was also re -elected to the Senate for a third term, cementing Florida control by the Republicans.
Acrimony relations with Donald Trump
At 44, Ron Desantis sees his national stature confirmed – he is currently the only credible alternative to Donald Trump within the Republican Party. Relations between the two men have become recently acrimonious. They did not campaign together, Mr. Trump made a bad word game against his former protégé by dealing with “Ron Desanctimous”. Trump could accelerate his candidacy by announcing it next week from his golf course in Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, to cut the movement in favor of the governor of Florida.
Ron Desantis is however one of the “Trump babies”, but he acquired a more polite profile, which could seduce the annoyed republicans of the outrageous behavior of the former president. This Catholic born in Florida, son of a television installer and a nurse, studied history in the prestigious Yale University and distinguished himself by becoming captain of the baseball team . He studied the right to Harvard then joined the Navy in 2004. He became adviser to the Special Forces Navy Seals and was deployed in Iraq, where a photo shows him in combat clothes in front of a chariot.
Trumpist before the time
Returning to the United States, he was appointed to the team of the Federal Prosecutor of Florida, which he leaves quickly to be elected representative at the Congress of the State in 2012, at 34 years old. The young Desantis is Trumpist before the hour and accompanies the populist revolution which will tip the great Old Party (GOP). In the TEA Party anti-tax movement, he opposes the Obamacare Health Act.
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