Donald Trump has nicknamed him Ron DeSanctimonious. But Florida’s governor is the Republicans’ big midterm winner
trickled in, Mr Trump was named as a big reason why. Independent voters, who stuck with the president’s party to an unusual degree, do not like his obsessive lying about his electoral defeat in 2020 or, it turned out, the many oddball and extremist candidates he endorsed. Yet there was a stark exception to this pattern. In Florida, a state that Mr Trump won by three percentage points in 2020, Mr DeSantis was re-elected by a crushing 19-point margin.
“Two more years,” his supporters chanted back. They meant that Mr DeSantis should serve only half his next gubernatorial term before relocating to the White House. Having previously refused to say that he would stick it out in Tallahassee for another four years, the governor smiled back. The Republican rivals are in several ways similar. Both are Floridian, Mr Trump having formally relocated from New York after his defeat. Both received elite educations—Mr Trump at the University of Pennsylvania; Mr DeSantis at Yale and Harvard. Both are accomplished grievance-mongers. They owe their popularity on the right far more to their skill at denouncing enemies, real and imagined, than to their ideas or governing record.
It matched the note of seething defiance that has energised the party’s base since before Mr Trump took it over. And the governor has since maintained it in successive campaigns against alleged wokedom in all its forms—including critical race theory,investing, discussing sexual orientation in the classroom and, after it dared speak out against that last campaign,.
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