Ron DeSantis just gave liberals another reason to be petrified — and it’s called reality.
Florida’s Republican governor — the second-most despised name among Democrats after former President Donald Trump — sat down with Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer on a book promotion tour and described the strategy that helped him turn a purple state ruby red in just four years’ time.
It’s a strategy that could work well beyond the Sunshine State, too.
During the discussion, DeSantis noted that he’d won the governor’s race in 2018 in a close election — it was, in fact, a nail-biter that went to a statewide recount before Democrat Andrew Gillum conceded. (Considering Gillum’s future misadventures involving drugs and a gay male prostitute, rehab and an eventual indictment on financial fraud charges, it looks like Florida dodged a bullet there.)
But instead of taking a cautious approach, the governor said, his administration went on the offensive pushing conservative priorities — and it paid off.