Current Events > Florida's Total Covid Deaths Has Surpassed DeSantis' 2018 Margin of Victory

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/floridas-death-toll-now-exceeds-desantis-margin-of-victory

DeSantis was elected governor in 2018 with a margin of victory of just 0.4 percent, or 32,000 votes. Floridas official COVID death count is now 39,695, a chilling reminder about the public health impact of DeSantis policies, and the fact that politics is about addition, not subtraction.
He has staked so much more than any Republican currently in office (on downplaying the virus) and that is playing well with the base, says Jessica Taylor, who tracks gubernatorial races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. But how that will play in his campaign for re-election or his aspirations to be the GOP nominee in 2024 will depend on what the virus does and how well DeSantis packages a whole new governing philosophy that bears little resemblance to the conservative principles he once touted.
Democrat Charlie Crist is now running even with DeSantis, according to a new poll this month. Crist was governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011 as a Republican and, after switching parties, is now a member of Congress who looks poised to give DeSantis a real fight.
What happened to the Republican war cry of local control? That was once a defining principle of conservatism, that the people closest to the problem know best how to solve it. After the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) updated its guidance in late July for schools that students, staff and teachers should wear masks even if vaccinated, the Broward County school board voted unanimously to adopt the CDCs advice, only to backtrack just days later in deference to a new executive order issued by DeSantis.
To understand how venomous DeSantis has made mask-wearing, two days after the nine-person Broward school board voted, on the day that Florida had its highest count to that date of new COVID cases (21,683), DeSantis signed an executive order empowering the state Board of Education to withhold funding from any school district forcing students to wear masks. On the following Monday, the Broward school board walked back its mandate in deference to DeSantis, and an uneasy truce is now in place with school districts putting in place mask requirements but allowing parents to opt out for their children without providing a reason, allowing both sides to save face at the expense of public health.

So about those political points he gained by rolling back mask mandates... <_<

Also, just a reminder that the GOP still loves government small enough to fit into your school boards, your bedrooms, and your uterus' in case that point wasn't clear.

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I'd be curious to know how many of those people voted for him

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Killing your own voters to own the libs

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ImAMarvel posted...

I hope this means that we'll vote blue in 2022 at least.

Republicans cheat to much for that to happen.

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Apparently the data collector who was fired for whistleblowing DeSantis withholding COVID data is also running against Gaetz

*reported death count

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dying to own the libs Desatan dont care

DeathSantis

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Were_Wyrm posted...

*reported death count

This. It's probably in the 6-figures.

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3PiesAndAFork posted...

This. It's probably in the 6-figures.

def

Libs pwnd

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