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Ron DeSantis

January 19, 2024

Ronald Dion DeSantis (/dɪˈsæntɪs, diː-/; born September 14, 1978) is an American politician serving since 2019 as the 46th governor of Florida. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Florida's 6th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018. DeSantis is a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Ron DeSantis
DeSantis in October 2023
46th Governor of Florida
Assumed office
January 8, 2019
LieutenantJeanette Nuñez
Preceded byRick Scott
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Florida's 6th district
In office
January 3, 2013 – September 10, 2018
Preceded byCliff Stearns (redistricting)
Succeeded byMichael Waltz
Personal details
Born
Ronald Dion DeSantis

(1978-09-14) September 14, 1978 (age 45)
Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
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(m. 2009)​
Children3
ResidenceGovernor's Mansion
Education
Signature
WebsiteOfficial website
Military service
Branch/serviceUnited States Navy
Years of service2004–2010 (active)
2010–2019 (reserve)[1]
RankLieutenant commander
UnitJudge Advocate General's Corps
United States Navy Reserve
Battles/warsIraq War
AwardsBronze Star
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
Iraq Campaign Medal

Born in Jacksonville, DeSantis spent most of his childhood in Dunedin, Florida. He graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School. DeSantis joined the United States Navy in 2004 and was promoted to lieutenant before serving as a legal advisor to SEAL Team One. He was stationed at Joint Task Force Guantanamo in 2006, and was deployed to Iraq in 2007. When he returned to the U.S. about eight months later, the U.S. attorney general appointed DeSantis to serve as a special assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida, a position he held until his honorable discharge from active military duty in 2010.

DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and was reelected in 2014 and 2016. During his tenure, he became a founding member of the Freedom Caucus and was an ally of President Donald Trump. He briefly ran for U.S. Senate in 2016, but withdrew when incumbent senator Marco Rubio sought reelection. DeSantis won the Republican nomination for the 2018 gubernatorial election and narrowly defeated the Democratic Party nominee, Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum, in the general election by 0.4%.

DeSantis was governor during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Nicole. He encouraged the passage of the Parental Rights in Education Act. In the 2022 gubernatorial election, he defeated Charlie Crist by 19.4 percentage points, the state's largest margin of victory for a governor's election in 40 years.

On May 24, 2023, DeSantis announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president of the United States, and he continues to serve as governor during the campaign. He has written two books: Dreams From Our Founding Fathers was published before his first campaign for Congress in 2011, and The Courage to Be Free was published in 2023.

Early life and education

Ronald Dion DeSantis was born on September 14, 1978, in Jacksonville, Florida, to parents Karen DeSantis (née Rogers) and Ronald Daniel DeSantis. His middle name, Dion, honors the singer Dion DiMucci,[2] and his family name has different pronunciations.[3] His mother's family name, Rogers, was chosen by her grandfather upon immigrating from Italy.[4][5][6] All of DeSantis's great-grandparents immigrated from Southern Italy[a] during the first Italian diaspora.[12] His parents and all of his grandparents were born and grew up in Western Pennsylvania and Northeast Ohio.[2]

DeSantis's mother worked as a nurse and his father installed Nielsen TV-rating boxes.[13] They met while attending Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, during the 1970s and moved to Jacksonville, Florida, during that decade.[14] His family then moved to Orlando, Florida, before relocating when he was six years old to the city of Dunedin in Florida's Tampa Bay area.[15] His only sibling, younger sister Christina, died in 2015 at age 30 from a pulmonary embolism.[16][17][18] He was a member of the Dunedin National team that made it to the 1991 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.[19][20] DeSantis attended Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School and Dunedin High School, graduating in 1997.[13]

After high school, DeSantis studied history at Yale University. He was captain of Yale's varsity baseball team; he played outfield, and as a senior in 2001 he had the team's best batting average at .336.[21][22][23][24] DeSantis was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and of the St. Elmo Society, one of Yale's secret societies.[20][25][26] While attending Yale, he worked a variety of jobs, including as an electrician's assistant and a coach at a baseball camp.[13] DeSantis graduated from Yale in 2001 with a B.A., magna cum laude.[27]

After Yale, DeSantis taught history and coached for a year at Darlington School in Georgia,[28] then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 2005 with a Juris Doctor, cum laude.[29] At Harvard, he was business manager for the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.[26]

Military service

 
DeSantis as a US Navy ensign of JAG c. 2005

In 2004, during his second year at Harvard Law, DeSantis was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy and assigned to the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG). He completed Naval Justice School in 2005. Later that year, he reported to the JAG Trial Service Office Command South East at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, as a prosecutor. He was promoted from lieutenant, junior grade to lieutenant in 2006.

In the spring of 2006, DeSantis arrived at Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), working with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[30][31][32] The publicly released records of his service in the Navy were redacted, with the Navy citing a personal-privacy exception to the Freedom of Information Act.[33] Mansur Ahmad Saad al-Dayfi, who was held at Guantanamo, alleged in 2022 that DeSantis oversaw force-feeding detainees[34][35][36][37][32] and DeSantis acknowledged that he advised the commander of the base about the use of force feeding.[38]

In 2007, DeSantis reported to the Naval Special Warfare Command Group in Coronado, California, where he was assigned as a legal adviser to SEAL Team One; he deployed to Iraq in the fall of 2007 as part of the troop surge.[39][40] He served as legal adviser to Dane Thorleifson, the SEAL Commander of the Special Operations Task Force-West in Fallujah.[30][31]

DeSantis returned to the U.S. in April 2008, reassigned to the Naval Region Southeast Legal Service. He was appointed to serve as a special assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida.[39] DeSantis was assigned as a trial defense counsel until his honorable discharge from active duty in February 2010. He concurrently accepted a reserve commission as a lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the U.S. Navy Reserve.[41][42][43]

During his military career, DeSantis was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Iraq Campaign Medal.[30][31] His Navy Reserve service ended in February 2019, a month after his gubernatorial inauguration, with the rank of lieutenant commander.[44]

Post-naval career

With two law-school friends, DeSantis founded an LSAT test-prep company, LSAT Freedom, that one of the other co-founders billed as "the only LSAT prep courses designed exclusively by Harvard Law School graduates". DeSantis also worked as a litigator at the Miami-based law firm Holland & Knight before running for Congress in 2012.[26]

U.S. House of Representatives (2013–2018)

 
DeSantis's U.S. House of Representatives official portrait (c. 2013)

Elections

DeSantis defeated six candidates in the 2012 Republican primary for Florida's 6th congressional district,[45] and defeated Democratic nominee Heather Beaven in the general election.[46] He was reelected in 2014[47] and 2016.[48]

In May 2015, DeSantis announced his candidacy for the 2016 United States Senate election in Florida. He ran for the seat held by Marco Rubio, who initially did not file to run for reelection due to his 2016 presidential campaign.[49] DeSantis was endorsed by the Koch Brothers' fiscally conservative Club for Growth.[50] When Rubio ended his presidential bid and ran for reelection to the Senate, DeSantis withdrew from the Senate race, instead running for reelection to the House.[51]

Tenure

 
DeSantis speaking at the Hudson Institute in June 2015

DeSantis signed a 2013 "No Climate Tax Pledge" against any tax hikes to fight global warming.[52] He voted in favor of H.R. 45, which would have repealed the Affordable Care Act in 2013.[53] DeSantis introduced a bill in 2014 that would have required the Justice Department to report to Congress whenever any federal agency refrained from enforcing laws.[54][55][56] In 2015, DeSantis was a founding member of the Freedom Caucus, a group of congressional conservatives and libertarians.[31][57][58]

DeSantis opposes gun control, and received an A+ rating from the National Rifle Association.[59] He has said, "Very rarely do firearms restrictions affect criminals. They really only affect law-abiding citizens."[60]

DeSantis was a critic of Obama's immigration policies, including deferred action legislation (DACA and DAPA), accusing Obama of failing to enforce immigration laws.[61][62] In 2015 he co-sponsored Kate's Law, which would have increased penalties for aliens who unlawfully reenter the U.S. after being removed.[63] DeSantis encouraged Florida sheriffs to cooperate with the federal government on immigration-related issues.[64]

In 2016, DeSantis introduced the Higher Education Reform and Opportunity Act, which would have allowed states to create their own accreditation systems. He said this legislation would also give students "access to federal loan money to put towards non-traditional educational opportunities, such as online learning courses, vocational schools, and apprenticeships in skilled trades".[65]

In 2016, DeSantis received a "0" rating from the Human Rights Campaign on LGBT-related legislation.[66][67] Two years later, he told the Sun Sentinel that he "doesn't want any discrimination in Florida, I want people to be able to live their life, whether you're gay or whether you're religious."[68]

DeSantis was present before the June 2017 congressional baseball shooting, and the perpetrator asked him whether the players were Republicans.[69] Later that summer, DeSantis proposed legislation that would have ended funding by November of that year for the Mueller investigation of President Trump.[70] He said that the May 17, 2017, order that initiated the probe "didn't identify a crime to be investigated" and was likely to start a fishing expedition.[71][72]

DeSantis supports a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress, so that U.S. representatives would be limited to three terms and senators to two.[73] He served three terms in the House of Representatives, retiring in 2018 to run for governor of Florida.[74]

Committees

During the 114th United States Congress, DeSantis served on the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and chaired its Subcommittee on National Security.[75] He also served on the Foreign Affairs Committee, Judiciary Committee, and the Republican Study Committee, along with several subcommittees of those.[76]

Fiscal policy

DeSantis said that the debate over how to reduce the federal deficit should shift emphasis from tax increases to curtailing spending and triggering economic growth.[77] He is a past supporter of replacing the federal income tax and the IRS with a federal sales tax called the FairTax, by cosponsoring legislation to do so as a U.S. representative.[78][79] He supported a "no budget, no pay" policy for Congress to encourage passage of a budget resolution.[80] DeSantis endorsed the REINS Act, which would have required that regulations significantly affecting the economy be subject to a vote of Congress before taking effect.[81] He also supported auditing the Federal Reserve System.[82]

Conservative think tank Citizens Against Government Waste named DeSantis a "Taxpayer Superhero" in 2015.[83] For alleged IRS targeting of conservatives, DeSantis asked for IRS commissioner John Koskinen's resignation for having "failed the American people by frustrating Congress's attempts to ascertain the truth".[84][85] He cosponsored a bill to impeach Koskinen for violating the public's trust.[86] DeSantis criticized IRS employee Lois Lerner and asked that she testify to Congress.[87]

In 2015, he introduced the Let Seniors Work Act, which would have repealed an incentive to retire instead of keep working and would have exempted senior citizens from the 12.4 percent Social Security payroll tax; he also cosponsored a measure to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits.[88][89] According to PolitiFact, it is "half true" that DeSantis voted to cut Social Security and Medicare and voted to increase the retirement age, because those votes were on non-binding resolutions that would not have become law even if passed, and because the objective was to stabilize those social programs to avoid steeper cuts later.[90][91]

DeSantis sponsored the Transportation Empowerment Act, which would have transferred much of the responsibility for transportation projects to the states and sharply reduce the federal gas tax.[92][93] He opposed legislation to require online retailers to collect and pay state sales tax.[94] He voted for the 2017 Trump tax cuts.[95][96]

DeSantis opted not to receive his congressional pension, and filed a measure that would eliminate pensions for members of Congress.[82][97]

Gubernatorial campaigns

2018 candidacy

Main article: 2018 Florida gubernatorial election
 
2018 election results map by county
DeSantis:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Gillum:      50–60%      60–70%

On January 5, 2018, DeSantis filed to run for the office of governor to replace term-limited Republican incumbent Rick Scott.[98] President Trump had said the previous month that he would support DeSantis should he run for governor.[99] During the Republican primary, DeSantis emphasized his support for Trump by running an ad in which DeSantis taught his children how to "build the wall" and say "Make America Great Again".[100] Asked whether he could name an issue on which he disagreed with Trump, DeSantis declined.[101] On August 28, 2018, DeSantis won the Republican primary, defeating his main opponent, Adam Putnam.[102]

DeSantis's gubernatorial platform included support for legislation that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry firearms openly.[103] He also supported a law mandating the use of E-Verify by businesses and a state-level ban on sanctuary city protections for undocumented immigrants.[103] DeSantis promised to stop the spread of polluted water from Lake Okeechobee.[103] He expressed support for a state constitutional amendment to require a supermajority vote for any tax increases.[104] DeSantis opposed allowing able-bodied, childless adults to receive Medicaid.[104] He said he would implement a medical cannabis program, while opposing the legalization of recreational cannabis.[104][105][106]

The day after his primary win, in a televised Fox News interview, DeSantis said, "The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state". His use of the word "monkey" received widespread media attention, and was interpreted by some, including Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo, as a racist dog whistle alluding to the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Andrew Gillum, who is African-American.[107][108][109][110] DeSantis denied the racism charge.[111][112][113][114] Dexter Filkins, writing in The New Yorker in 2022, called it a "disastrous gaffe", and quoted an unnamed ally of DeSantis lamenting that afterward, "We were handling Gillum with kid gloves. We can't hit the guy, because we're trying to defend the fact that we're not racist."[111]

The general election was "widely seen as a toss-up".[115] Some sheriffs endorsed DeSantis, while other sheriffs backed Gillum.[116] DeSantis was endorsed by the Florida Police Chiefs Association.[117] On September 5, he announced state representative Jeanette Núñez as his running mate.[118] He resigned his House seat on September 10 to focus on his gubernatorial campaign.[119] The same month, he canceled a planned interview with the Tampa Bay Times to have additional time to put together a platform before an in-depth policy interview.[120] On election night, initial results had DeSantis winning, and so Gillum conceded.[121] Gillum rescinded his concession when the margin narrowed to 0.4 percent, and an automatic machine recount began with a November 15 deadline.[122] Although three counties missed the deadline, it was not extended.[123][124] DeSantis was confirmed as the winner and Gillum conceded on November 17.[125]

2022 candidacy

Main article: 2022 Florida gubernatorial election
 
2022 election results map by county
DeSantis:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Crist:      50–60%      60–70%

In September 2021, DeSantis announced he would run for reelection.[126] On November 7, he filed the necessary paperwork to officially enter the race.[127] In the general election, he faced Democratic nominee Charlie Crist, a U.S. representative and former Florida governor.[128] Crist heavily criticized DeSantis's decision to transport illegal immigrants to Democratic states, arguing that it was human rights abuse.[129] During an interview with Bret Baier on Fox News, Crist called DeSantis "one of the biggest threats to democracy".[130]

The gubernatorial debate was held on October 23, and the candidates exchanged attacks. At one point, Crist asked DeSantis whether he would serve a full four-year term, in relation to talk about a potential DeSantis campaign for president in 2024. DeSantis responded, "the only worn-out old donkey I'm looking to put out to pastures is Charlie Crist".[131] On the campaign trail DeSantis criticized Crist's role as a U.S. representative, and at the debate said that Crist showed up for work for only 14 days during 2022.[132]

DeSantis won the November 8 election in a landslide,[133][134][135] with 59.4 percent of the vote to Crist's 40 percent; it was the largest margin of victory in a Florida gubernatorial election since 1982.[136] Significantly, DeSantis won Miami-Dade County, which had been a Democratic stronghold since 2002, and Palm Beach County, which had not voted Republican since 1986.[137][138] Crist conceded the election shortly after DeSantis was projected as the winner.[139] At DeSantis's victory rally, supporters chanted "two more years" at various times rather than the common "four more years" to show support for DeSantis for president in 2024.[140]

Governor of Florida (2019–present)

Main article: Governorship of Ron DeSantis
 
DeSantis with Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, Chief Finance Officer Jimmy Patronis, and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried in 2019

DeSantis became governor of Florida on January 8, 2019.[141] He has generally governed as a conservative.[142] On January 11, three days after taking office, he posthumously pardoned the Groveland Four, a group of black men falsely convicted of rape in 1949.[143][144] The same day,[145] he officially suspended Broward County sheriff Scott Israel, ostensibly for his responses to the mass shootings at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, appointing Gregory Tony to replace him.[146][147] In its 2021 session, the Florida legislature passed DeSantis's top priorities.[148][149] During his tenure, the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature enacted much of DeSantis's legislative agenda, often on rapid timelines.[150][151] Maximizing the power of the governor's office, DeSantis exerted pressure on Republican legislative leaders.[152][153]

Economic

Main article: Economy of Florida

Taxation and budget

During his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, DeSantis pledged to lower corporate income taxes to 5 percent or lower.[154] During his tenure, corporate income taxes in Florida got as low as 3.5 percent in 2021, but by 2022 they had increased to 5.5 percent.[155] DeSantis has maintained Florida's low-tax status during his time as governor.[156] In June 2019, DeSantis signed a $91.1 billion budget the legislature passed the previous month, which was the largest in state history at the time, though he cut $131 million in appropriations.[157][158] In June 2021, he signed a $101.5 billion budget; he used his line-item veto to veto $1.5 billion (of which $1 billion was in federal American Rescue Plan Act money for an emergency response fund).[159][160] The budget DeSantis signed was more than $9 billion higher than Florida's current state spending plan.[159]

On November 22, 2021, because of a significant increase in gasoline prices, DeSantis announced that he would temporarily waive Florida's gasoline tax in the next legislative session, in 2022.[161] Florida had a record state budget surplus in 2023.[162]

Unemployment insurance and retirement age

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, DeSantis blamed former governor Rick Scott for "revamping the state's unemployment insurance system with pointless roadblocks that he said were designed to prevent people from claiming benefits", claiming it created massive backlogs earlier in the year as the pandemic decimated the economy.[163] Afterward, Florida's economy swiftly started recovering, and the unemployment rate fell below 7 percent by the latter half of 2020.[164] In December 2020, DeSantis ordered the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to extend unemployment waivers until February 27, 2021.[165] Since May 2022, Florida's unemployment rate has sat around two percent, below the national average.[166]

While in Congress, DeSantis supported proposals to raise the retirement age (i.e., the age to qualify for Medicare and Social Security) to 70 and to privatize Medicare, turning it into a "premium support" system.[91][167][90] While running for president in 2023, DeSantis reversed his position, saying, "we’re not going to mess with Social Security."[91][167][90]

Education

In June 2021, DeSantis led an effort to ban the teaching of critical race theory in Florida public schools (though it had not been part of Florida's public school curriculum). He described critical race theory as "teaching kids to hate their country", mirroring a similar push by conservatives nationally.[168] The Florida Board of Education approved the ban on June 10. The Florida Education Association criticized the ban, accusing the board of trying to hide facts from students. Other critics said the ban was an effort to "politicize classroom education and whitewash American history".[169][170]

On September 14, 2021, DeSantis announced that Florida would replace the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) test with a system of three smaller tests throughout the school year, in the fall, winter and spring. The new system was implemented in the 2022–23 school year.[171]

On December 15, 2021, DeSantis announced a new bill, the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act ("Stop WOKE Act"), which would allow parents to sue school districts that teach critical race theory. He framed the bill as a bill to combat "woke indoctrination" that would "teach our kids to hate our country or hate each other."[172][173][174][175] On August 18, 2022, federal judge Mark E. Walker blocked enforcement of the act as applied to businesses, ruling that it violated the First Amendment and was impermissibly vague.[176] Walker later blocked enforcement of the act as applied to public universities for similar reasons, writing that the legislation is "positively dystopian" because it "officially bans professors from expressing disfavored viewpoints in university classrooms while permitting unfettered expression of the opposite viewpoints."[177]

Election law and voting rights

DeSantis expressed support for the Voting Rights Restoration for Felons Initiative after it passed in November 2018, saying he was "obligated to faithfully implement [it] as it is defined" when he became governor. After he refused to restore voting rights for felons with unpaid fines, which voting rights groups said was inconsistent with the referendum's results, he was challenged in court. The Florida Supreme Court sided with DeSantis on the issue,[178] and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit also sided with DeSantis in a 6–4 ruling.[179]

In April 2019, DeSantis directed Florida's elections chief to expand the availability of Spanish-language ballots and Spanish assistance for voters. In a statement, DeSantis said, "It is critically important that Spanish-speaking Floridians are able to exercise their right to vote without any language barriers."[180]

In June 2019, DeSantis signed a measure that would make it harder to launch successful ballot initiatives. Petition-gathering for ballot initiatives to legalize medical cannabis, increases to the minimum wage, and expansion of Medicaid were also under way.[181][182][183] DeSantis instructed Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to investigate whether Michael Bloomberg had criminally offered incentives for felons to vote by assisting in a fundraising effort to pay off their financial obligations so they could vote in the 2020 presidential election in Florida. No wrongdoing was found.[184]

In February 2021, DeSantis announced his support for eliminating ballot drop boxes and limiting voting by mail by requiring that voters re-register every year to vote by mail and that signatures on mail-in ballots "match the most recent signature on file" (rather than any of the voter's signatures in the Florida system).[185][186] The changes to mail-in voting were notable given that Republicans had historically voted by mail more than Democrats, but Democrats outvoted Republicans by mail in 2020.[185] According to a Tampa Bay Times analysis, DeSantis's signature match proposal could have led to rejections of his own mail-in ballots due to changes in his signature history over time; voting rights experts argued that the signature matching proposal could be used to disenfranchise voters whose signatures varied over time.[186]

Abortion limits

After the U.S. Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, DeSantis pledged to "expand pro-life protections".[187] On April 14, 2022, he signed into law a bill that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy; under the previous law, the limit had been 24 weeks.[188] The law includes exceptions for abortions beyond 15 weeks if they are necessary to avert "serious risk" to the pregnant woman's physical health or if there is a "fatal fetal abnormality" but makes no exceptions for rape, human trafficking, incest, or mental health.[189]

The law was expected to go into effect on July 1, 2022,[190] but a state judge blocked its enforcement, ruling that it violated the right to privacy guaranteed by the Florida Constitution.[191][192] After DeSantis appealed the ruling, the law went into effect on July 5, pending judicial review.[193] In January 2023, the Supreme Court of Florida agreed to hear a legal challenge to the law.[194]

In April 2023, DeSantis signed a six-week abortion ban.[195] The legislation contains exceptions allowing abortion up to 15 weeks in cases in which the pregnancy was a result of rape, incest, or human trafficking, but requires the woman to provide proof of a crime before being permitted an abortion under any of those exceptions.[196][197] The bill will make providing an abortion a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, ban telemedicine for abortion, and limit the availability of medication abortion.[198] The six-week ban is set to go into effect 30 days after the Supreme Court of Florida rules on the 15-week ban.[197]

Tech platforms

On February 2, 2021, DeSantis announced support for legislation to hold tech companies accountable to prevent alleged political censorship.[199][200] In response to social media networks removing Trump from their platforms, DeSantis and other Florida Republicans pushed legislation in the Florida legislature to prohibit tech companies from de-platforming political candidates.[201] A federal judge blocked the law by preliminary injunction the day before it was to take effect, on the grounds that it violated the First Amendment and federal law.[202] When Twitter suspended DeSantis administration critic Rebekah Jones's account for violating rules against spam and platform manipulation, DeSantis's office applauded the decision, calling it "long overdue".[203][204] DeSantis supported Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, believing "it illegal for tech platforms to block or demote content that might otherwise run afoul of their terms of service".[205]

COVID-19 response

See also: COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and COVID-19 pandemic in Florida

During 2020 and 2021, scientists and media outlets initially gave mixed reviews of DeSantis's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.[206][207][208] From March 2020 through March 22, 2023, Florida had the 12th-highest rate of cases and deaths per 100,000 people among the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, without adjusting for the age of Florida's large and vulnerable elderly population.[209][210] Florida's age-adjusted death rate, which takes its disproportionately elderly population into account, was roughly near the median among states as of 2021, and a 2022 study placed it at the nation's 12th lowest.[211][210][212] By 2023, many political scientists acknowledged that DeSantis's management of the pandemic may have benefited him in his reelection campaign, and he was credited with turning "his coronavirus policies into a parable of American freedom".[213][214]

LGBT rights

Further information: LGBT rights in Florida § Education

On June 1, 2021, DeSantis signed the Fairness in Women's Sports Act (SB 1028). It bans transgender girls and women from participating and competing in middle-school and high-school girls' and college women's sports competitions. The law took effect on July 1.[215]

In February 2022, DeSantis voiced support for the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act (HB1557), commonly known as the "Don't Say Gay" law, which prohibits discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in school classrooms from kindergarten to grade 3. He said it was "entirely inappropriate" for teachers and school administrators to talk to students about their gender identity.[216][217][218] DeSantis signed the bill into law in March 2022, and it took effect on July 1, 2022.[219] This statute also includes a provision "requiring school district personnel to encourage a student to discuss issues relating to his or her well-being with his or her parent or to facilitate discussion of the issue with the parent", and does not limit such issues to sexual orientation or gender identity.[220] As of March 2023, DeSantis was considering further similar legislation for all grades.[221][222] On April 19, the state board of education extended the act's restrictions on classroom instruction to grades 4–12, unless the instruction is required by existing state standards or is part of an elective course on reproductive health.[223][224]

Dispute with Disney

The Walt Disney Company, owner of Walt Disney World in Florida, called for the law's repeal, beginning a dispute between Disney and the state government.[225] In April 2022, DeSantis signed a bill eliminating the company's special independent district and replacing its Disney-appointed board of overseers.[226][227] He also threatened during a press conference to build a new state prison near the Disney World complex.[228] On April 26, 2023, Disney filed suit against DeSantis and several others, accusing them of retaliating against protected speech.[229]

Policing and law enforcement

 
DeSantis at a pro-law enforcement rally in Staten Island

DeSantis opposes efforts to defund the police, and as governor has introduced initiatives to "fund the police".[230] In September 2021, he introduced a $5,000 signing bonus for Florida police officers in a bid to attract out-of-state police recruits.[231]

In April 2021, DeSantis signed into law the Combating Public Disorder Act he had been advocating. Aside from being an anti-riot statute, it forbade intimidation by mobs; penalized damage to historic properties or memorials, such as downtown Miami's Christopher Columbus statue, which was damaged in 2020; and forbade publishing personal identifying information online with intent to harm.[232] DeSantis had argued for this legislation by citing the George Floyd protests of 2020 and the 2021 United States Capitol attack, although only the former was mentioned at the signing ceremony.[233] Several months after the signing, a federal judge blocked the portion of the law that introduced a new definition of "riot", calling it too vague.[234]

On May 5, 2021, DeSantis announced that all Florida police officers, firefighters, and paramedics would receive a $1,000 bonus.[235]

On December 2, 2021, DeSantis announced that as part of a $100 million funding proposal for the Florida National Guard, $3.5 million would be allocated to the reactivation of the Florida State Guard, a volunteer state defense force that had been inactive since 1947.[236][237]

Immigration and refugees

In June 2019, DeSantis signed an anti-"sanctuary city" bill into law. Florida had no sanctuary cities before the law's enactment, and immigration advocates called the bill politically motivated.[238][239][240]

Florida became the 12th state to adopt legislation requiring local governments to aid federal immigration-enforcement efforts.[241] In June 2020, DeSantis signed a bill requiring government employers and contractors to use E-Verify.[242][243][244] He had originally called for all employers to be required to use it.[245] A few years later, he signed into law an expansion of E-Verify and other immigration laws.[246]

In 2021, DeSantis halted cooperation with the Biden administration's program to relocate and resettle migrants in Florida in the wake of a surge in illegal immigration.[247] DeSantis's administration also allocated $12 million for relocating migrants to other states.[248]

In September 2022, after similar actions by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, an agent of DeSantis recruited 50 newly arrived asylum seekers, mostly from Venezuela, in San Antonio, Texas, and flew them via two chartered planes to the Crestview, Florida airport, where they did not debark, then proceeded to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The migrants filed a class-action suit against DeSantis, calling his treatment of them "extreme and outrageous, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community".[249][250]

In May 2023, DeSantis announced plans to send over 1,000 personnel to Texas, including National Guard troops, to help Texas stem the influx of illegal immigration across the southern border.[251]

Hurricane Ian response

Further information: Hurricane Ian
 
President Joe Biden and Governor DeSantis greet each other in Fort Myers for a briefing on response and recovery efforts after Hurricane Ian.

DeSantis was widely praised for the state's response to Hurricane Ian — the deadliest hurricane to hit Florida in over 85 years.[252][253][254] In September 2022, DeSantis declared a state of emergency for all of Florida as Ian approached and asked for federal aid ahead of time.[255][256][better source needed] On October 5, after Ian deserted Florida, President Biden arrived in Florida and met with DeSantis and Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott.[257] DeSantis and Biden held a press conference in Fort Myers, at which Biden said DeSantis had "done a good job", to report on the status of the cleanup.[258] In addition, DeSantis partnered with Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Inc., to use the Starlink satellite Internet service to help restore communication across the state.[259]

Environment

DeSantis supported programs dedicated to environmental conservation and protection from flooding in Florida. At the same time, he questioned climate science, supported fossil fuels, opposed renewables, and sanctioned firms for considering environmental issues in their investments.[260]

The Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act gave Florida $3.75 million for urban forests and nature, $209,000 for fighting pollution, and $78.7 million to protect the state from climate change impacts.

However, DeSantis refused to accept $346 million from the Inflation Reduction Act for rebates to homeowners who want to retrofit their houses, make it more energy efficient, $3 million to fight pollution, and a program to help low-income people buy solar panels, as well as $24 million from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for improving sewage systems in rural areas. The rebates were requested by Florida energy office and the legislature, but DeSantis vetoed them. All other governors, including Republicans, accepted the money. The money can go to local cities and authorities, and three Florida cities received some funds. Rhode Island and Kentucky have requested to take Florida's money for themselves. The program should help people lower their energy bills and weatherize their houses while creating jobs. Half the money should go to low-income households.[261][262][263] Making a house more energy-efficient can cut utility bills by 25% for an average family.[264] DeSantis later reversed course and attempted to reclaim some of the rejected home energy rebate funds.[265]

2024 presidential campaign

 
Campaign logo for DeSantis
Main article: Ron DeSantis 2024 presidential campaign
Further information: 2024 United States presidential election and 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries

Between 2020 and 2023, media outlets saw DeSantis as a likely candidate for the 2024 presidential election, and various notable people urged him to run.[266][267] In September 2021, he called 2024 speculation "purely manufactured".[268] In April 2023, he said, "I am not a candidate, so we'll see if and when that changes"; at that time, Trump was leading DeSantis in polls for the Republican nomination, but DeSantis was performing better than Trump in battleground polling of the general election.[269][270]

In a straw poll conducted at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, DeSantis came in second with 28 percent of the vote, behind Trump, who received 59 percent.[271] Beginning in 2022, DeSantis became increasingly seen as a contender for the Republican nomination. Various writers have predicted that he could defeat Trump or said that he is preferable to Trump in view of the January 6 hearings and subsequent straw polls.[272][273][274] These ideas gained more traction after the 2022 midterm elections, when DeSantis was reelected governor by almost 20 percentage points, while Trump-endorsed candidates, such as Mehmet Oz in the Senate race in Pennsylvania, performed poorly.[275][276] The release of DeSantis's memoir, The Courage To Be Free, and subsequent book tour, also increased 2024 speculation.[277]

On May 24, 2023, DeSantis officially launched his bid for president.[278] It was announced on X, then called Twitter, with assistance from its owner, Elon Musk.[279]

Personal life

 
Ron and Casey DeSantis in January 2019

DeSantis met his wife, Casey Black, at a golf course at the University of North Florida.[280][281] She had been a television host for the Golf Channel, and then a television journalist and news anchor at WJXT.[282][280] They married on September 26, 2009, in a chapel at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.[280][283][284] DeSantis is Catholic, as was his wedding ceremony.[284][285]

The couple lived in Ponte Vedra Beach, near St. Augustine, until it was drawn into the neighboring 4th congressional district. They then moved to a condo owned by Kent Stermon in Palm Coast, north of Daytona Beach, which remained in the district he represented: the 6th.[286][287] They have three children.[288]

He is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion.[289] In 2022, DeSantis appeared on Time 100, Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[290] As of September 2023, his net worth was estimated at around $1.5 million, up from $300,000 in 2021; his $1.25 million book deal with HarperCollins in 2022 made him a millionaire by the end of that year.[291][292][293]

Electoral history

Main article: Electoral history of Ron DeSantis

Publications

  • DeSantis, Ron (2011). Dreams from Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama. Jacksonville: High-Pitched Hum Publishing. ISBN 978-1-934666-80-7.[294]
  • DeSantis, Ron (2023). The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0063276000.

Notes

  1. ^ DeSantis's great-grandparents were originally from comuni in the provinces of L'Aquila (Cansano, Bugnara, Pacentro and Pratola Peligna, in Abruzzo region), Caserta (Sessa Aurunca, in Campania region), Avellino (Castelfranci, in Campania region) and Campobasso (Castelbottaccio, in Molise region).[7][8][9][10][11] His paternal great-grandfather Nicola DeSantis was originally from Cansano, Abruzzo region.[7] His paternal grandfather was Daniel DeSantis, born in Beaver, Pennsylvania, to Nicola and his wife Maria.[7] DeSantis's maternal great-great-grandfather, Salvatore Storti, immigrated to the U.S. during the Italian diaspora in 1904. He eventually settled in Pennsylvania, where his wife, Luigia Colucci, joined him in 1917.[9]

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desantis, ronald, dion, desantis, born, september, 1978, american, politician, serving, since, 2019, 46th, governor, florida, member, republican, party, represented, florida, congressional, district, house, representatives, from, 2013, 2018, desantis, candidat. Ronald Dion DeSantis d ɪ ˈ s ae n t ɪ s d iː born September 14 1978 is an American politician serving since 2019 as the 46th governor of Florida A member of the Republican Party he represented Florida s 6th congressional district in the U S House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018 DeSantis is a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination Ron DeSantisDeSantis in October 202346th Governor of FloridaIncumbentAssumed office January 8 2019LieutenantJeanette NunezPreceded byRick ScottMember of the U S House of Representatives from Florida s 6th districtIn office January 3 2013 September 10 2018Preceded byCliff Stearns redistricting Succeeded byMichael WaltzPersonal detailsBornRonald Dion DeSantis 1978 09 14 September 14 1978 age 45 Jacksonville Florida U S Political partyRepublicanSpouseCasey Black m 2009 wbr Children3ResidenceGovernor s MansionEducationYale University BA Harvard University JD SignatureWebsiteOfficial websiteMilitary serviceBranch serviceUnited States NavyYears of service2004 2010 active 2010 2019 reserve 1 RankLieutenant commanderUnitJudge Advocate General s CorpsUnited States Navy ReserveBattles warsIraq WarAwardsBronze StarNavy and Marine Corps Commendation MedalGlobal War on Terrorism Service MedalIraq Campaign MedalBorn in Jacksonville DeSantis spent most of his childhood in Dunedin Florida He graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School DeSantis joined the United States Navy in 2004 and was promoted to lieutenant before serving as a legal advisor to SEAL Team One He was stationed at Joint Task Force Guantanamo in 2006 and was deployed to Iraq in 2007 When he returned to the U S about eight months later the U S attorney general appointed DeSantis to serve as a special assistant U S attorney at the U S Attorney s Office in the Middle District of Florida a position he held until his honorable discharge from active military duty in 2010 DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and was reelected in 2014 and 2016 During his tenure he became a founding member of the Freedom Caucus and was an ally of President Donald Trump He briefly ran for U S Senate in 2016 but withdrew when incumbent senator Marco Rubio sought reelection DeSantis won the Republican nomination for the 2018 gubernatorial election and narrowly defeated the Democratic Party nominee Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum in the general election by 0 4 DeSantis was governor during the COVID 19 pandemic as well as Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Nicole He encouraged the passage of the Parental Rights in Education Act In the 2022 gubernatorial election he defeated Charlie Crist by 19 4 percentage points the state s largest margin of victory for a governor s election in 40 years On May 24 2023 DeSantis announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president of the United States and he continues to serve as governor during the campaign He has written two books Dreams From Our Founding Fathers was published before his first campaign for Congress in 2011 and The Courage to Be Free was published in 2023 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Military service 2 1 Post naval career 3 U S House of Representatives 2013 2018 3 1 Elections 3 2 Tenure 3 3 Committees 3 4 Fiscal policy 4 Gubernatorial campaigns 4 1 2018 candidacy 4 2 2022 candidacy 5 Governor of Florida 2019 present 5 1 Economic 5 1 1 Taxation and budget 5 1 2 Unemployment insurance and retirement age 5 2 Education 5 3 Election law and voting rights 5 4 Abortion limits 5 5 Tech platforms 5 6 COVID 19 response 5 7 LGBT rights 5 7 1 Dispute with Disney 5 8 Policing and law enforcement 5 9 Immigration and refugees 5 10 Hurricane Ian response 5 11 Environment 5 12 2024 presidential campaign 6 Personal life 7 Electoral history 8 Publications 9 Notes 10 References 11 External linksEarly life and educationRonald Dion DeSantis was born on September 14 1978 in Jacksonville Florida to parents Karen DeSantis nee Rogers and Ronald Daniel DeSantis His middle name Dion honors the singer Dion DiMucci 2 and his family name has different pronunciations 3 His mother s family name Rogers was chosen by her grandfather upon immigrating from Italy 4 5 6 All of DeSantis s great grandparents immigrated from Southern Italy a during the first Italian diaspora 12 His parents and all of his grandparents were born and grew up in Western Pennsylvania and Northeast Ohio 2 DeSantis s mother worked as a nurse and his father installed Nielsen TV rating boxes 13 They met while attending Youngstown State University in Youngstown Ohio during the 1970s and moved to Jacksonville Florida during that decade 14 His family then moved to Orlando Florida before relocating when he was six years old to the city of Dunedin in Florida s Tampa Bay area 15 His only sibling younger sister Christina died in 2015 at age 30 from a pulmonary embolism 16 17 18 He was a member of the Dunedin National team that made it to the 1991 Little League World Series in Williamsport Pennsylvania 19 20 DeSantis attended Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School and Dunedin High School graduating in 1997 13 After high school DeSantis studied history at Yale University He was captain of Yale s varsity baseball team he played outfield and as a senior in 2001 he had the team s best batting average at 336 21 22 23 24 DeSantis was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and of the St Elmo Society one of Yale s secret societies 20 25 26 While attending Yale he worked a variety of jobs including as an electrician s assistant and a coach at a baseball camp 13 DeSantis graduated from Yale in 2001 with a B A magna cum laude 27 After Yale DeSantis taught history and coached for a year at Darlington School in Georgia 28 then attended Harvard Law School graduating in 2005 with a Juris Doctor cum laude 29 At Harvard he was business manager for the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 26 Military service nbsp DeSantis as a US Navy ensign of JAG c 2005In 2004 during his second year at Harvard Law DeSantis was commissioned as an officer in the U S Navy and assigned to the Navy Judge Advocate General s Corps JAG He completed Naval Justice School in 2005 Later that year he reported to the JAG Trial Service Office Command South East at Naval Station Mayport Florida as a prosecutor He was promoted from lieutenant junior grade to lieutenant in 2006 In the spring of 2006 DeSantis arrived at Joint Task Force Guantanamo JTF GTMO working with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp 30 31 32 The publicly released records of his service in the Navy were redacted with the Navy citing a personal privacy exception to the Freedom of Information Act 33 Mansur Ahmad Saad al Dayfi who was held at Guantanamo alleged in 2022 that DeSantis oversaw force feeding detainees 34 35 36 37 32 and DeSantis acknowledged that he advised the commander of the base about the use of force feeding 38 In 2007 DeSantis reported to the Naval Special Warfare Command Group in Coronado California where he was assigned as a legal adviser to SEAL Team One he deployed to Iraq in the fall of 2007 as part of the troop surge 39 40 He served as legal adviser to Dane Thorleifson the SEAL Commander of the Special Operations Task Force West in Fallujah 30 31 DeSantis returned to the U S in April 2008 reassigned to the Naval Region Southeast Legal Service He was appointed to serve as a special assistant U S attorney at the U S Attorney s Office in the Middle District of Florida 39 DeSantis was assigned as a trial defense counsel until his honorable discharge from active duty in February 2010 He concurrently accepted a reserve commission as a lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General s Corps of the U S Navy Reserve 41 42 43 During his military career DeSantis was awarded the Bronze Star Medal the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal 30 31 His Navy Reserve service ended in February 2019 a month after his gubernatorial inauguration with the rank of lieutenant commander 44 Post naval career With two law school friends DeSantis founded an LSAT test prep company LSAT Freedom that one of the other co founders billed as the only LSAT prep courses designed exclusively by Harvard Law School graduates DeSantis also worked as a litigator at the Miami based law firm Holland amp Knight before running for Congress in 2012 26 U S House of Representatives 2013 2018 nbsp DeSantis s U S House of Representatives official portrait c 2013 Elections DeSantis defeated six candidates in the 2012 Republican primary for Florida s 6th congressional district 45 and defeated Democratic nominee Heather Beaven in the general election 46 He was reelected in 2014 47 and 2016 48 In May 2015 DeSantis announced his candidacy for the 2016 United States Senate election in Florida He ran for the seat held by Marco Rubio who initially did not file to run for reelection due to his 2016 presidential campaign 49 DeSantis was endorsed by the Koch Brothers fiscally conservative Club for Growth 50 When Rubio ended his presidential bid and ran for reelection to the Senate DeSantis withdrew from the Senate race instead running for reelection to the House 51 Tenure nbsp DeSantis speaking at the Hudson Institute in June 2015DeSantis signed a 2013 No Climate Tax Pledge against any tax hikes to fight global warming 52 He voted in favor of H R 45 which would have repealed the Affordable Care Act in 2013 53 DeSantis introduced a bill in 2014 that would have required the Justice Department to report to Congress whenever any federal agency refrained from enforcing laws 54 55 56 In 2015 DeSantis was a founding member of the Freedom Caucus a group of congressional conservatives and libertarians 31 57 58 DeSantis opposes gun control and received an A rating from the National Rifle Association 59 He has said Very rarely do firearms restrictions affect criminals They really only affect law abiding citizens 60 DeSantis was a critic of Obama s immigration policies including deferred action legislation DACA and DAPA accusing Obama of failing to enforce immigration laws 61 62 In 2015 he co sponsored Kate s Law which would have increased penalties for aliens who unlawfully reenter the U S after being removed 63 DeSantis encouraged Florida sheriffs to cooperate with the federal government on immigration related issues 64 In 2016 DeSantis introduced the Higher Education Reform and Opportunity Act which would have allowed states to create their own accreditation systems He said this legislation would also give students access to federal loan money to put towards non traditional educational opportunities such as online learning courses vocational schools and apprenticeships in skilled trades 65 In 2016 DeSantis received a 0 rating from the Human Rights Campaign on LGBT related legislation 66 67 Two years later he told the Sun Sentinel that he doesn t want any discrimination in Florida I want people to be able to live their life whether you re gay or whether you re religious 68 DeSantis was present before the June 2017 congressional baseball shooting and the perpetrator asked him whether the players were Republicans 69 Later that summer DeSantis proposed legislation that would have ended funding by November of that year for the Mueller investigation of President Trump 70 He said that the May 17 2017 order that initiated the probe didn t identify a crime to be investigated and was likely to start a fishing expedition 71 72 DeSantis supports a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress so that U S representatives would be limited to three terms and senators to two 73 He served three terms in the House of Representatives retiring in 2018 to run for governor of Florida 74 Committees During the 114th United States Congress DeSantis served on the Committee on Oversight and Accountability and chaired its Subcommittee on National Security 75 He also served on the Foreign Affairs Committee Judiciary Committee and the Republican Study Committee along with several subcommittees of those 76 Fiscal policy DeSantis said that the debate over how to reduce the federal deficit should shift emphasis from tax increases to curtailing spending and triggering economic growth 77 He is a past supporter of replacing the federal income tax and the IRS with a federal sales tax called the FairTax by cosponsoring legislation to do so as a U S representative 78 79 He supported a no budget no pay policy for Congress to encourage passage of a budget resolution 80 DeSantis endorsed the REINS Act which would have required that regulations significantly affecting the economy be subject to a vote of Congress before taking effect 81 He also supported auditing the Federal Reserve System 82 Conservative think tank Citizens Against Government Waste named DeSantis a Taxpayer Superhero in 2015 83 For alleged IRS targeting of conservatives DeSantis asked for IRS commissioner John Koskinen s resignation for having failed the American people by frustrating Congress s attempts to ascertain the truth 84 85 He cosponsored a bill to impeach Koskinen for violating the public s trust 86 DeSantis criticized IRS employee Lois Lerner and asked that she testify to Congress 87 In 2015 he introduced the Let Seniors Work Act which would have repealed an incentive to retire instead of keep working and would have exempted senior citizens from the 12 4 percent Social Security payroll tax he also cosponsored a measure to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits 88 89 According to PolitiFact it is half true that DeSantis voted to cut Social Security and Medicare and voted to increase the retirement age because those votes were on non binding resolutions that would not have become law even if passed and because the objective was to stabilize those social programs to avoid steeper cuts later 90 91 DeSantis sponsored the Transportation Empowerment Act which would have transferred much of the responsibility for transportation projects to the states and sharply reduce the federal gas tax 92 93 He opposed legislation to require online retailers to collect and pay state sales tax 94 He voted for the 2017 Trump tax cuts 95 96 DeSantis opted not to receive his congressional pension and filed a measure that would eliminate pensions for members of Congress 82 97 Gubernatorial campaigns2018 candidacy Main article 2018 Florida gubernatorial election nbsp 2018 election results map by countyDeSantis 50 60 60 70 70 80 80 90 Gillum 50 60 60 70 On January 5 2018 DeSantis filed to run for the office of governor to replace term limited Republican incumbent Rick Scott 98 President Trump had said the previous month that he would support DeSantis should he run for governor 99 During the Republican primary DeSantis emphasized his support for Trump by running an ad in which DeSantis taught his children how to build the wall and say Make America Great Again 100 Asked whether he could name an issue on which he disagreed with Trump DeSantis declined 101 On August 28 2018 DeSantis won the Republican primary defeating his main opponent Adam Putnam 102 DeSantis s gubernatorial platform included support for legislation that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry firearms openly 103 He also supported a law mandating the use of E Verify by businesses and a state level ban on sanctuary city protections for undocumented immigrants 103 DeSantis promised to stop the spread of polluted water from Lake Okeechobee 103 He expressed support for a state constitutional amendment to require a supermajority vote for any tax increases 104 DeSantis opposed allowing able bodied childless adults to receive Medicaid 104 He said he would implement a medical cannabis program while opposing the legalization of recreational cannabis 104 105 106 The day after his primary win in a televised Fox News interview DeSantis said The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state His use of the word monkey received widespread media attention and was interpreted by some including Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo as a racist dog whistle alluding to the Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum who is African American 107 108 109 110 DeSantis denied the racism charge 111 112 113 114 Dexter Filkins writing in The New Yorker in 2022 called it a disastrous gaffe and quoted an unnamed ally of DeSantis lamenting that afterward We were handling Gillum with kid gloves We can t hit the guy because we re trying to defend the fact that we re not racist 111 The general election was widely seen as a toss up 115 Some sheriffs endorsed DeSantis while other sheriffs backed Gillum 116 DeSantis was endorsed by the Florida Police Chiefs Association 117 On September 5 he announced state representative Jeanette Nunez as his running mate 118 He resigned his House seat on September 10 to focus on his gubernatorial campaign 119 The same month he canceled a planned interview with the Tampa Bay Times to have additional time to put together a platform before an in depth policy interview 120 On election night initial results had DeSantis winning and so Gillum conceded 121 Gillum rescinded his concession when the margin narrowed to 0 4 percent and an automatic machine recount began with a November 15 deadline 122 Although three counties missed the deadline it was not extended 123 124 DeSantis was confirmed as the winner and Gillum conceded on November 17 125 2022 candidacy Main article 2022 Florida gubernatorial election nbsp 2022 election results map by countyDeSantis 50 60 60 70 70 80 80 90 gt 90 Crist 50 60 60 70 In September 2021 DeSantis announced he would run for reelection 126 On November 7 he filed the necessary paperwork to officially enter the race 127 In the general election he faced Democratic nominee Charlie Crist a U S representative and former Florida governor 128 Crist heavily criticized DeSantis s decision to transport illegal immigrants to Democratic states arguing that it was human rights abuse 129 During an interview with Bret Baier on Fox News Crist called DeSantis one of the biggest threats to democracy 130 The gubernatorial debate was held on October 23 and the candidates exchanged attacks At one point Crist asked DeSantis whether he would serve a full four year term in relation to talk about a potential DeSantis campaign for president in 2024 DeSantis responded the only worn out old donkey I m looking to put out to pastures is Charlie Crist 131 On the campaign trail DeSantis criticized Crist s role as a U S representative and at the debate said that Crist showed up for work for only 14 days during 2022 132 DeSantis won the November 8 election in a landslide 133 134 135 with 59 4 percent of the vote to Crist s 40 percent it was the largest margin of victory in a Florida gubernatorial election since 1982 136 Significantly DeSantis won Miami Dade County which had been a Democratic stronghold since 2002 and Palm Beach County which had not voted Republican since 1986 137 138 Crist conceded the election shortly after DeSantis was projected as the winner 139 At DeSantis s victory rally supporters chanted two more years at various times rather than the common four more years to show support for DeSantis for president in 2024 140 Governor of Florida 2019 present Main article Governorship of Ron DeSantis This section should include a summary of Governorship of Ron DeSantis See Wikipedia Summary style for information on how to incorporate it into this article s main text November 2023 nbsp DeSantis with Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody Chief Finance Officer Jimmy Patronis and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried in 2019DeSantis became governor of Florida on January 8 2019 141 He has generally governed as a conservative 142 On January 11 three days after taking office he posthumously pardoned the Groveland Four a group of black men falsely convicted of rape in 1949 143 144 The same day 145 he officially suspended Broward County sheriff Scott Israel ostensibly for his responses to the mass shootings at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School appointing Gregory Tony to replace him 146 147 In its 2021 session the Florida legislature passed DeSantis s top priorities 148 149 During his tenure the Republican dominated Florida Legislature enacted much of DeSantis s legislative agenda often on rapid timelines 150 151 Maximizing the power of the governor s office DeSantis exerted pressure on Republican legislative leaders 152 153 Economic Main article Economy of Florida Taxation and budget During his 2018 gubernatorial campaign DeSantis pledged to lower corporate income taxes to 5 percent or lower 154 During his tenure corporate income taxes in Florida got as low as 3 5 percent in 2021 but by 2022 they had increased to 5 5 percent 155 DeSantis has maintained Florida s low tax status during his time as governor 156 In June 2019 DeSantis signed a 91 1 billion budget the legislature passed the previous month which was the largest in state history at the time though he cut 131 million in appropriations 157 158 In June 2021 he signed a 101 5 billion budget he used his line item veto to veto 1 5 billion of which 1 billion was in federal American Rescue Plan Act money for an emergency response fund 159 160 The budget DeSantis signed was more than 9 billion higher than Florida s current state spending plan 159 On November 22 2021 because of a significant increase in gasoline prices DeSantis announced that he would temporarily waive Florida s gasoline tax in the next legislative session in 2022 161 Florida had a record state budget surplus in 2023 162 Unemployment insurance and retirement age During the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020 DeSantis blamed former governor Rick Scott for revamping the state s unemployment insurance system with pointless roadblocks that he said were designed to prevent people from claiming benefits claiming it created massive backlogs earlier in the year as the pandemic decimated the economy 163 Afterward Florida s economy swiftly started recovering and the unemployment rate fell below 7 percent by the latter half of 2020 164 In December 2020 DeSantis ordered the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to extend unemployment waivers until February 27 2021 165 Since May 2022 Florida s unemployment rate has sat around two percent below the national average 166 While in Congress DeSantis supported proposals to raise the retirement age i e the age to qualify for Medicare and Social Security to 70 and to privatize Medicare turning it into a premium support system 91 167 90 While running for president in 2023 DeSantis reversed his position saying we re not going to mess with Social Security 91 167 90 Education In June 2021 DeSantis led an effort to ban the teaching of critical race theory in Florida public schools though it had not been part of Florida s public school curriculum He described critical race theory as teaching kids to hate their country mirroring a similar push by conservatives nationally 168 The Florida Board of Education approved the ban on June 10 The Florida Education Association criticized the ban accusing the board of trying to hide facts from students Other critics said the ban was an effort to politicize classroom education and whitewash American history 169 170 On September 14 2021 DeSantis announced that Florida would replace the Florida Standards Assessment FSA test with a system of three smaller tests throughout the school year in the fall winter and spring The new system was implemented in the 2022 23 school year 171 On December 15 2021 DeSantis announced a new bill the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act Stop WOKE Act which would allow parents to sue school districts that teach critical race theory He framed the bill as a bill to combat woke indoctrination that would teach our kids to hate our country or hate each other 172 173 174 175 On August 18 2022 federal judge Mark E Walker blocked enforcement of the act as applied to businesses ruling that it violated the First Amendment and was impermissibly vague 176 Walker later blocked enforcement of the act as applied to public universities for similar reasons writing that the legislation is positively dystopian because it officially bans professors from expressing disfavored viewpoints in university classrooms while permitting unfettered expression of the opposite viewpoints 177 Election law and voting rights DeSantis expressed support for the Voting Rights Restoration for Felons Initiative after it passed in November 2018 saying he was obligated to faithfully implement it as it is defined when he became governor After he refused to restore voting rights for felons with unpaid fines which voting rights groups said was inconsistent with the referendum s results he was challenged in court The Florida Supreme Court sided with DeSantis on the issue 178 and the U S Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit also sided with DeSantis in a 6 4 ruling 179 In April 2019 DeSantis directed Florida s elections chief to expand the availability of Spanish language ballots and Spanish assistance for voters In a statement DeSantis said It is critically important that Spanish speaking Floridians are able to exercise their right to vote without any language barriers 180 In June 2019 DeSantis signed a measure that would make it harder to launch successful ballot initiatives Petition gathering for ballot initiatives to legalize medical cannabis increases to the minimum wage and expansion of Medicaid were also under way 181 182 183 DeSantis instructed Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to investigate whether Michael Bloomberg had criminally offered incentives for felons to vote by assisting in a fundraising effort to pay off their financial obligations so they could vote in the 2020 presidential election in Florida No wrongdoing was found 184 In February 2021 DeSantis announced his support for eliminating ballot drop boxes and limiting voting by mail by requiring that voters re register every year to vote by mail and that signatures on mail in ballots match the most recent signature on file rather than any of the voter s signatures in the Florida system 185 186 The changes to mail in voting were notable given that Republicans had historically voted by mail more than Democrats but Democrats outvoted Republicans by mail in 2020 185 According to a Tampa Bay Times analysis DeSantis s signature match proposal could have led to rejections of his own mail in ballots due to changes in his signature history over time voting rights experts argued that the signature matching proposal could be used to disenfranchise voters whose signatures varied over time 186 Abortion limits After the U S Supreme Court decided Dobbs v Jackson Women s Health Organization which overturned Roe v Wade DeSantis pledged to expand pro life protections 187 On April 14 2022 he signed into law a bill that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy under the previous law the limit had been 24 weeks 188 The law includes exceptions for abortions beyond 15 weeks if they are necessary to avert serious risk to the pregnant woman s physical health or if there is a fatal fetal abnormality but makes no exceptions for rape human trafficking incest or mental health 189 The law was expected to go into effect on July 1 2022 190 but a state judge blocked its enforcement ruling that it violated the right to privacy guaranteed by the Florida Constitution 191 192 After DeSantis appealed the ruling the law went into effect on July 5 pending judicial review 193 In January 2023 the Supreme Court of Florida agreed to hear a legal challenge to the law 194 In April 2023 DeSantis signed a six week abortion ban 195 The legislation contains exceptions allowing abortion up to 15 weeks in cases in which the pregnancy was a result of rape incest or human trafficking but requires the woman to provide proof of a crime before being permitted an abortion under any of those exceptions 196 197 The bill will make providing an abortion a felony punishable by up to five years in prison ban telemedicine for abortion and limit the availability of medication abortion 198 The six week ban is set to go into effect 30 days after the Supreme Court of Florida rules on the 15 week ban 197 Tech platforms On February 2 2021 DeSantis announced support for legislation to hold tech companies accountable to prevent alleged political censorship 199 200 In response to social media networks removing Trump from their platforms DeSantis and other Florida Republicans pushed legislation in the Florida legislature to prohibit tech companies from de platforming political candidates 201 A federal judge blocked the law by preliminary injunction the day before it was to take effect on the grounds that it violated the First Amendment and federal law 202 When Twitter suspended DeSantis administration critic Rebekah Jones s account for violating rules against spam and platform manipulation DeSantis s office applauded the decision calling it long overdue 203 204 DeSantis supported Elon Musk s acquisition of Twitter believing it illegal for tech platforms to block or demote content that might otherwise run afoul of their terms of service 205 COVID 19 response See also COVID 19 pandemic in the United States and COVID 19 pandemic in Florida During 2020 and 2021 scientists and media outlets initially gave mixed reviews of DeSantis s handling of the COVID 19 pandemic 206 207 208 From March 2020 through March 22 2023 Florida had the 12th highest rate of cases and deaths per 100 000 people among the 50 states Washington D C and Puerto Rico without adjusting for the age of Florida s large and vulnerable elderly population 209 210 Florida s age adjusted death rate which takes its disproportionately elderly population into account was roughly near the median among states as of 2021 and a 2022 study placed it at the nation s 12th lowest 211 210 212 By 2023 many political scientists acknowledged that DeSantis s management of the pandemic may have benefited him in his reelection campaign and he was credited with turning his coronavirus policies into a parable of American freedom 213 214 LGBT rights Further information LGBT rights in Florida Education On June 1 2021 DeSantis signed the Fairness in Women s Sports Act SB 1028 It bans transgender girls and women from participating and competing in middle school and high school girls and college women s sports competitions The law took effect on July 1 215 In February 2022 DeSantis voiced support for the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act HB1557 commonly known as the Don t Say Gay law which prohibits discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in school classrooms from kindergarten to grade 3 He said it was entirely inappropriate for teachers and school administrators to talk to students about their gender identity 216 217 218 DeSantis signed the bill into law in March 2022 and it took effect on July 1 2022 219 This statute also includes a provision requiring school district personnel to encourage a student to discuss issues relating to his or her well being with his or her parent or to facilitate discussion of the issue with the parent and does not limit such issues to sexual orientation or gender identity 220 As of March 2023 DeSantis was considering further similar legislation for all grades 221 222 On April 19 the state board of education extended the act s restrictions on classroom instruction to grades 4 12 unless the instruction is required by existing state standards or is part of an elective course on reproductive health 223 224 Dispute with Disney The Walt Disney Company owner of Walt Disney World in Florida called for the law s repeal beginning a dispute between Disney and the state government 225 In April 2022 DeSantis signed a bill eliminating the company s special independent district and replacing its Disney appointed board of overseers 226 227 He also threatened during a press conference to build a new state prison near the Disney World complex 228 On April 26 2023 Disney filed suit against DeSantis and several others accusing them of retaliating against protected speech 229 Policing and law enforcement nbsp DeSantis at a pro law enforcement rally in Staten IslandDeSantis opposes efforts to defund the police and as governor has introduced initiatives to fund the police 230 In September 2021 he introduced a 5 000 signing bonus for Florida police officers in a bid to attract out of state police recruits 231 In April 2021 DeSantis signed into law the Combating Public Disorder Act he had been advocating Aside from being an anti riot statute it forbade intimidation by mobs penalized damage to historic properties or memorials such as downtown Miami s Christopher Columbus statue which was damaged in 2020 and forbade publishing personal identifying information online with intent to harm 232 DeSantis had argued for this legislation by citing the George Floyd protests of 2020 and the 2021 United States Capitol attack although only the former was mentioned at the signing ceremony 233 Several months after the signing a federal judge blocked the portion of the law that introduced a new definition of riot calling it too vague 234 On May 5 2021 DeSantis announced that all Florida police officers firefighters and paramedics would receive a 1 000 bonus 235 On December 2 2021 DeSantis announced that as part of a 100 million funding proposal for the Florida National Guard 3 5 million would be allocated to the reactivation of the Florida State Guard a volunteer state defense force that had been inactive since 1947 236 237 Immigration and refugees In June 2019 DeSantis signed an anti sanctuary city bill into law Florida had no sanctuary cities before the law s enactment and immigration advocates called the bill politically motivated 238 239 240 Florida became the 12th state to adopt legislation requiring local governments to aid federal immigration enforcement efforts 241 In June 2020 DeSantis signed a bill requiring government employers and contractors to use E Verify 242 243 244 He had originally called for all employers to be required to use it 245 A few years later he signed into law an expansion of E Verify and other immigration laws 246 In 2021 DeSantis halted cooperation with the Biden administration s program to relocate and resettle migrants in Florida in the wake of a surge in illegal immigration 247 DeSantis s administration also allocated 12 million for relocating migrants to other states 248 In September 2022 after similar actions by Texas Governor Greg Abbott an agent of DeSantis recruited 50 newly arrived asylum seekers mostly from Venezuela in San Antonio Texas and flew them via two chartered planes to the Crestview Florida airport where they did not debark then proceeded to Martha s Vineyard Massachusetts The migrants filed a class action suit against DeSantis calling his treatment of them extreme and outrageous and utterly intolerable in a civilized community 249 250 In May 2023 DeSantis announced plans to send over 1 000 personnel to Texas including National Guard troops to help Texas stem the influx of illegal immigration across the southern border 251 Hurricane Ian response Further information Hurricane Ian nbsp President Joe Biden and Governor DeSantis greet each other in Fort Myers for a briefing on response and recovery efforts after Hurricane Ian DeSantis was widely praised for the state s response to Hurricane Ian the deadliest hurricane to hit Florida in over 85 years 252 253 254 In September 2022 DeSantis declared a state of emergency for all of Florida as Ian approached and asked for federal aid ahead of time 255 256 better source needed On October 5 after Ian deserted Florida President Biden arrived in Florida and met with DeSantis and Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott 257 DeSantis and Biden held a press conference in Fort Myers at which Biden said DeSantis had done a good job to report on the status of the cleanup 258 In addition DeSantis partnered with Elon Musk CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Inc to use the Starlink satellite Internet service to help restore communication across the state 259 Environment DeSantis supported programs dedicated to environmental conservation and protection from flooding in Florida At the same time he questioned climate science supported fossil fuels opposed renewables and sanctioned firms for considering environmental issues in their investments 260 The Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act gave Florida 3 75 million for urban forests and nature 209 000 for fighting pollution and 78 7 million to protect the state from climate change impacts However DeSantis refused to accept 346 million from the Inflation Reduction Act for rebates to homeowners who want to retrofit their houses make it more energy efficient 3 million to fight pollution and a program to help low income people buy solar panels as well as 24 million from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for improving sewage systems in rural areas The rebates were requested by Florida energy office and the legislature but DeSantis vetoed them All other governors including Republicans accepted the money The money can go to local cities and authorities and three Florida cities received some funds Rhode Island and Kentucky have requested to take Florida s money for themselves The program should help people lower their energy bills and weatherize their houses while creating jobs Half the money should go to low income households 261 262 263 Making a house more energy efficient can cut utility bills by 25 for an average family 264 DeSantis later reversed course and attempted to reclaim some of the rejected home energy rebate funds 265 2024 presidential campaign nbsp Campaign logo for DeSantisMain article Ron DeSantis 2024 presidential campaignFurther information 2024 United States presidential election and 2024 Republican Party presidential primariesThis section needs expansion with Should be expanded with information on campaign developments post announcement You can help by adding to it October 2023 Between 2020 and 2023 media outlets saw DeSantis as a likely candidate for the 2024 presidential election and various notable people urged him to run 266 267 In September 2021 he called 2024 speculation purely manufactured 268 In April 2023 he said I am not a candidate so we ll see if and when that changes at that time Trump was leading DeSantis in polls for the Republican nomination but DeSantis was performing better than Trump in battleground polling of the general election 269 270 In a straw poll conducted at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination DeSantis came in second with 28 percent of the vote behind Trump who received 59 percent 271 Beginning in 2022 DeSantis became increasingly seen as a contender for the Republican nomination Various writers have predicted that he could defeat Trump or said that he is preferable to Trump in view of the January 6 hearings and subsequent straw polls 272 273 274 These ideas gained more traction after the 2022 midterm elections when DeSantis was reelected governor by almost 20 percentage points while Trump endorsed candidates such as Mehmet Oz in the Senate race in Pennsylvania performed poorly 275 276 The release of DeSantis s memoir The Courage To Be Free and subsequent book tour also increased 2024 speculation 277 On May 24 2023 DeSantis officially launched his bid for president 278 It was announced on X then called Twitter with assistance from its owner Elon Musk 279 Personal life nbsp Ron and Casey DeSantis in January 2019DeSantis met his wife Casey Black at a golf course at the University of North Florida 280 281 She had been a television host for the Golf Channel and then a television journalist and news anchor at WJXT 282 280 They married on September 26 2009 in a chapel at Disney s Grand Floridian Resort amp Spa 280 283 284 DeSantis is Catholic as was his wedding ceremony 284 285 The couple lived in Ponte Vedra Beach near St Augustine until it was drawn into the neighboring 4th congressional district They then moved to a condo owned by Kent Stermon in Palm Coast north of Daytona Beach which remained in the district he represented the 6th 286 287 They have three children 288 He is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion 289 In 2022 DeSantis appeared on Time 100 Time s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world 290 As of September 2023 update his net worth was estimated at around 1 5 million up from 300 000 in 2021 his 1 25 million book deal with HarperCollins in 2022 made him a millionaire by the end of that year 291 292 293 Electoral historyMain article Electoral history of Ron DeSantisPublicationsDeSantis Ron 2011 Dreams from Our Founding Fathers First Principles in the Age of Obama Jacksonville High Pitched Hum Publishing ISBN 978 1 934666 80 7 294 DeSantis Ron 2023 The Courage to Be Free Florida s Blueprint for America s Revival HarperCollins ISBN 978 0063276000 Notes DeSantis s great grandparents were originally from comuni in the provinces of L Aquila Cansano Bugnara Pacentro and Pratola Peligna in Abruzzo region Caserta Sessa Aurunca in Campania region Avellino Castelfranci in Campania region and Campobasso Castelbottaccio in Molise region 7 8 9 10 11 His paternal great grandfather Nicola DeSantis was originally from Cansano Abruzzo region 7 His paternal grandfather was Daniel DeSantis born in Beaver Pennsylvania to Nicola and his wife Maria 7 DeSantis s maternal great great grandfather Salvatore Storti immigrated to the U S during the Italian diaspora in 1904 He eventually settled in Pennsylvania where his wife Luigia Colucci joined him in 1917 9 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Florida September 24 2022 Archived from the original on September 24 2022 Retrieved September 24 2022 Egan Lauren October 5 2022 Biden meets with DeSantis while surveying Hurricane Ian damage in Florida NBC Biden DeSantis deliver remarks after surveying Florida storm damage Washington Post October 5 2022 via YouTube Salahieh Nouran Andone Dakin October 3 2022 Death toll from Hurricane Ian surpasses 100 as the search for survivors continues in Florida CNN Archived from the original on October 4 2022 Retrieved October 4 2022 McDonnell Tim April 7 2023 Ron DeSantis s climate contradictions Semafor Retrieved September 8 2023 HABERKORN JENNIFER August 30 2023 DeSantis tells Biden Keep your IRA money Politico Retrieved September 4 2023 Natter Ari July 11 2023 DeSantis Says No Thanks to 377 Million in Federal Energy Funds BNN Bloomberg Retrieved September 6 2023 Calder Meta August 21 2023 Veto of energy efficiency funding falls squarely on the poor The invading sea Retrieved September 6 2023 How much does energy efficiency cost Energy Sage April 5 2023 Retrieved September 6 2023 DeSantis seeks energy saving rebates in apparent change of heart December 18 2023 Fineout Gary August 11 2020 DeSantis squelches talk of a White House run Politico Archived from the original on October 1 2020 Retrieved May 24 2023 Levin Jonathan September 7 2021 DeSantis Says Talk of Presidential Run Is Purely Manufactured Bloomberg News Archived from the original on April 28 2022 Retrieved May 24 2023 It s nonsense Gov DeSantis brushes off idea he would run for president in 2024 WFLA 8 September 7 2021 Retrieved October 22 2021 Klas Mary Ellen DeSantis meets with Japan s top leaders in first stop of international trade mission Bradenton Herald April 24 2023 Kamisar Ben Polls show Trump with big lead over DeSantis But against Biden it s a different story NBC News April 21 2023 Navarro Aaron Linton Caroline February 28 2022 Trump wins CPAC 2024 straw poll DeSantis is second but more than 30 points behind CBS Digital Retrieved March 7 2022 Romano Andrew LoBianco Tom July 22 2022 GOP insiders think DeSantis could beat Trump in 2024 Here s how news yahoo com Retrieved July 28 2022 Hart Benjamin July 19 2022 Trump Is Losing Ground to DeSantis in Poll After Poll Intelligencer Retrieved July 28 2022 Gancarski A G July 18 2022 Poll shows Ron DeSantis above 50 versus Donald Trump in Florida Florida Politics Campaigns amp Elections Lobbying amp Government Retrieved July 28 2022 Ron DeSantis landslide victory brings Trump and 2024 into focus The Guardian November 9 2022 Retrieved November 9 2022 Trump left fuming after at least 14 of his candidates projected to lose in midterms Sources ABC News Retrieved November 18 2022 Jackson David 2024 preview Ron DeSantis does a book tour to discuss his Florida record not Donald Trump USA TODAY Retrieved March 22 2023 Florida Gov Ron DeSantis launches 2024 presidential campaign to challenge Trump AP NEWS May 24 2023 Retrieved May 24 2023 DeSantis launches GOP presidential campaign in Twitter announcement plagued by glitches AP NEWS May 24 2023 Retrieved May 25 2023 a b c Lakritz Talia December 1 2022 Ron DeSantis wife Casey has been instrumental in the Florida governor s rise to fame Here s a timeline of their relationship Business Insider Digital Retrieved February 4 2023 DeSantis Ron February 28 2023 The Courage to Be Free New York City New York United States of America Harper Collins ISBN 978 0 0632 7600 0 Meet the Family Ron DeSantis for Governor Retrieved November 14 2022 Galbraith Alex November 4 2022 Florida Gov Ron DeSantis was married at Walt Disney World Orlando Weekly a b Kurtz Judy February 28 2023 DeSantis says he insisted on no Disney characters at his Disney World wedding The Hill RollCall com Member Profile Rep Ron DeSantis R Fla CQ Roll Call Archived from the original on March 4 2020 Mark Harper September 30 2016 Congressman Ron DeSantis moves to Flagler County News journalonline com Retrieved October 18 2016 Ronald Dion DeSantis Florida Resident Database October 19 2016 Archived from the original on October 19 2016 Retrieved May 6 2017 DeSantis Casey FLCaseyDeSantis March 30 2020 Ron and I are beyond blessed Tweet Retrieved March 30 2020 via Twitter Ron Desantis PDF Vignette by National Journal Archived PDF from the original on February 15 2023 Retrieved October 17 2021 Ron DeSantis The 100 Most Influential People of 2022 Time May 23 2022 Retrieved April 3 2023 Mullins Kyle September 29 2023 Here s How Much Ron DeSantis Is Worth Forbes Retrieved October 1 2023 Contorno Kit Maher Steve July 1 2023 DeSantis net worth is more than 1 17 million newly filed state disclosure shows CNN Retrieved October 12 2023 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Nehamas Nicholas June 30 2023 DeSantis Financial Disclosure Puts Him in the Millionaires Club The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved October 12 2023 via NYTimes com Brockell Gillian May 21 2023 Ron DeSantis s context free history book vanished online We got a copy The Washington Post Archived from the original on May 22 2023 Retrieved May 22 2023 External links nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Ron DeSantis nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ron DeSantis Official Florida Governor website Campaign website Ron DeSantis at Curlie Appearances on C SPAN Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Financial information federal office at the Federal Election Commission Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress Profile at Vote Smart Ron DeSantis at BallotpediaU S House of RepresentativesPreceded byCliff Stearns Member of the U S House of Representativesfrom Florida s 6th congressional district2013 2018 Succeeded byMichael WaltzParty political officesPreceded byRick Scott Republican nominee for Governor of Florida2018 2022 Most recentPolitical officesPreceded byRick Scott Governor of Florida2019 present IncumbentU S 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