“Everyone told me I was wrong,” Republican Descentis said Tuesday, referring to his insult to the epidemic in a fundraising appeal. “I faced constant pressure from the fundamentalist Democrats and the liberal media, but I refused to back down. It’s clear: Florida got it right.”
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“Those lockdowns could not work. They have done great damage to our country,” Descentis told a news conference in Tallahassee on Tuesday. “We will never let this happen again. Florida has taken a different path. As a result we have had more success.”
Desantis – who is the youngest governor of the country at the age of eight – is among his peers and what he and his supporters believe is appropriate for his policies.
The lockdown and the school’s sudden sudden move to hold governors and other elected officials accountable to voters is a new move, an indication that the politics of the epidemic could open an uncertain chapter for many public office-bearers. He will be among the rulers of the state when he contests re-election next year.
“We still have millions of children across this country who have been denied access to personal education,” Disantis told a news conference. “We still have businesses closed in many parts of this country. Millions and millions of people have been killed.”
‘It will not boom if it is stopped’
With Spring With You on the horizon, Descentis suddenly appears to be in a stronger position than some of his fellow governors, many of whom were due to more restrictive approaches to the fight against coronavirus that had a trickle-down effect on the economy.
They’re not facing a potential recall like California’s Gavin News, the New York government’s G&D. In investigations like Andrew Cuomo or Texas Govt. A statewide mask command like Greg Abbott is another estimate of ifting.
Decentis refused to apply the mask command in the first year, making it an outlet a year ago. At the time, he was paying close attention to President Donald Trump’s playbook, which he argued was good for business.
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“If you look at what’s going on in South Florida right now, I mean this place is booming. If it closes it won’t boom,” DeMantis said last month as a tourist crush began to arrive. “Los Angeles isn’t booming. New York City isn’t booming. It’s booming here because you can live like a man.”
About 9,204 cases per 100,000 people have been reported in Florida and about 150 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University. Across the country, there have been approximately 8,969 cases per 100,000 people and 163 deaths per 100,000 people.
Despite many more stringent restrictions, California is only one place ahead of Florida in both measures. Its mortality rate is about 5% lower than Florida, which means that if the state’s death rate matched that of California, about 1,500 people could have been saved in Florida.
“What I’d like to ask about Florida is, what would it look like if we did things differently in Florida?” Salemi told CNN. “If you use the metrics where Florida belongs to a lot of states, we’re looking between packs. So no, it didn’t happen in the disaster that we’re prosecuting cases per capita. Per capita.”
He added: “It’s not always about doing good with your peers. Keeping an eye on what’s going on in our economy is how we can stop the spread of the virus so badly.”
He said Florida also needs masks from local ordinances and has benefited from limiting the size of the collection. Decentes has banned cities and counties from imposing fines on people for refusing to wear masks, and has angered local authorities by forcing them to strip them of their power to enforce such rules.
During this epidemic, it is the notorious and often combative dissent that has become increasingly a favorite of Republicans. It rejects most interview requests, including CNN, even though it appears frequently on Fox News and other promotional platforms. They are stuck in one fight after another with the state media over transparency on covid statistics and other issues.
Although his policies have boosted his position within his party, they have certainly closed the door to any Republican challenges. Potential democracy contenders are already circling.
Rip. Charlie Christ – who served as the state’s Republican governor from 2007 to 2011 and switched parties in 2012 – is among Democrats considering challenging DeSamtis for re-election next year. He said he intends to make up his mind before summer.
When asked how Florida thought about surviving the epidemic, Christ said: “It’s a mixed bag to be candid.”
“We have a light at the end of the tunnel feeling and it’s really Godsend,” Christ told CNN in an interview here in his office fee. “On the other hand, my fellow 33,000 Floridians have died now. And it’s surprisingly tragic, tragic and unfortunate outside. So how are we doing? Well, we’re snapping through it like That’s the rest of the country and we’re doing the best we can. “
“Were there some Caucasian affluent, Republican communities preferred?” Christ said. “Because it definitely looks like that.”
A spokesman for the governor dismissed the allegation as “baseless and ridiculous” as politics play a role in vaccine distribution in Florida.
‘I think he gambled and it worked’
Here in Florida, where the beaches on the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico have been crowded in an unprecedented way for more than a year this week, the full story of the epidemic has yet to be written, as President B Biden inherits the challenge and accelerated vaccines here and in the country. Yet health experts and local officials worry that the parade of spring break vacationers could contribute to Covid-19 cases.
Tom Golden, who owns a restaurant and bar in a busy area of Central Avenue in downtown St. Petersburg, said a year ago he didn’t have much opinion about Disantis. But not only has his business survived, but he is rich he gives a credit to the governor.
“When it comes to office fees, I’m not sure what to expect,” Golden said in an interview just before lunch this sunny morning. “But he did nothing to hurt me as a business owner or Floridian. So good with me.”
After businesses were allowed to reopen after closing the shutters for several weeks late last spring, Golden said he recalls mixed feelings about the Balance Act to keep the economy alive and protect people’s health.
“Well, of course, as a business owner I supported him, but as a man, I kept thinking he must be in a terrible position.” “It’s hard to measure. I think he made a good decision.”
Conversations with more than a dozen Floridians provided a detailed assessment of views on handling the coronavirus crisis of Descentis. Some suggested that they did not initially support him, but suddenly found themselves approving of his decision to reopen the economy and schools.
A woman visiting the St. Petersburg Pier talked about her grandchildren in California, who have been attending school virtually since last year. She said given the temperate climate and the ability to stay out, she believes the Florida approach is better. She declined to be named, but praised Decentis’ decisions that allowed the orchestra to resume playing here and enrich the economy.
Molly Minton, who works as a laboratory supervisor, said she remembers being depressed as she walked home from work and saw crowded bars and restaurants. Looking back, she said, she’s glad that many small businesses were able to stay open and believes Florida was lucky in many ways.
“I think he gambled and it will work,” Mint said of the governor.
In the extended state of more than 21 million people, where some estimates about 1 thousand new residents come in every day, many said they had no opinion of the dissenters and did not know much about them.
He was born in Jacksonville and grew up on the Gulf Coast north of here in Dunedin, and he had a love for Bezab for Law who sent his team to the Little League World Series. Later, he played outfield while studying at Yale. He graduated from Harvard Law School and worked as a naval prosecutor, including a lawyer advising the Seal team as a naval JAG lawyer in Iraq.
In 2012, he won a congressional seat and was elected governor in 2018, two months after he turned 40. He was largely unaware during the primary campaign until he won Trump’s support, which became aware of him through repeated appearances on Fox News.
Now, Descentis is seen as a potential 2024 presidential candidate by many bottom-up Rs. That path is based on its all-round election next year.
Their long-distance future, of course, also depends on the outcome of the rest of the epidemic. It is clear, however, that he hopes to have his new calling gender card, which he telegraphed in an appeal to raise funds for Republican governors, which he sent to supporters on Tuesday.
“Right now, my state of Florida is one of the only states that has not repressed a repressive lockdown and has become an oasis of freedom for Americans,” Descentis wrote.
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