2023-05-30 11:00:00
Ron DeSantis Will Be Trump’s Main Opponent in GOP Primary Election
The current governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, made his candidacy official last Wednesday (24) to run for the elections
2024 for the Presidency of the USA
. Member of the Republican Party, he will compete with Donald Trump within the legend.
DeSantis
must be the main opponent of the former US president to be the republican name in the likely dispute against Joe Biden
in the election next year. However, while Trump
appears with 55% of the voting intentions in the primaries, the governor of Florida has 21%, according to the survey carried out by the website Real Clear Politics.
But who is the politician who is seen as the only real threat to a new race between Biden and Trump in the US presidential election?
From Yale to Iraq
Ronald Dion DeSantis is 44 years old and was born in Jacksonville, Florida. His family is from the American middle class and is of Italian origin. As far as his schooling is concerned, he majored in History from Yale University and in Law from Harvard.
While studying at Harvard, the current governor of Florida became an officer in the United States Navy, a fact that saw him become a legal adviser at Guantánamo, Cuba, and with American troops deployed to Iraq.
In 2012, DeSantis won a seat in the US House of Representatives, being re-elected twice. In the six-year period in office, he was strongly opposed to the government of Barack Obama, and was praised on several occasions by Donald Trump.
governor of florida
In 2018, Ron decided to take new flights within politics and ran for governor of Florida and, in his first race, he was elected in a very tight election where he had Democrat Andrew Gillum as his opponent.
Much of his tenure in the state was marked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the health measures imposed during this period. In 2020, for example, the conservative imposed a lockdown across Florida, but backtracked just three weeks later.
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He also opposed the mandatory use of masks and, also in 2020, allowed the reopening of schools even amid a rise in cases of coronavirus in the region.
Already in 2022, he won re-election in the state, this time with a much calmer margin in relation to Democrat Charlie Crist by obtaining about 20 percentage points of advantage against his opponent.
DeSantis has maintained a conservative agenda throughout his tenure as governor. An example of this was the ban on abortion in the state after six weeks of pregnancy, and the expansion of the ban on classes on gender identity and sexual orientation to all elementary schools in Florida.
Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
Relationship with Trump
DeSantis and Trump had a good relationship within American politics, especially in the period between Ronald’s terms in Congress and his election as governor. However, that has changed in recent years.
And the main factor that contributed to this wear and tear was the Florida governor’s intention to run for the 2024 presidential election. .
After DeSantis said he would run in the primary election, Trump used Truth Social, his own social network, to pin the politician who is also part of the Republican Party.
“After campaigning for five months, and going nowhere but down, it looks like Ron ‘DeSanctimonious’ will soon be entering the race. He has ZERO chance and the MAGA (‘Make America Great Again’, Trump’s slogan, which stands for ‘Make America Great Again’) will never forget!”
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