{"id":1730723,"date":"2022-11-08T21:17:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T02:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730723"},"modified":"2022-11-08T21:17:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T02:17:36","slug":"3-takeaways-from-ron-desantiss-blowout-win-for-every-gop-governor-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-takeaways-from-ron-desantiss-blowout-win-for-every-gop-governor-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Takeaways From Ron DeSantis\u2019s Blowout Win For Every GOP Governor In America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F3-takeaways-from-ron-desantiss-blowout-win-for-every-gop-governor-in-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730723&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ron DeSantis won the Florida governor\u2019s mansion by fewer than <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190101034118\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/elections\/results\/florida-governor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">33,000 votes<\/a>. No, not today, when he trampled former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to win a second term (with, as of election night with 85 percent of precincts reporting, a nearly 20-point lead). When the Republican \u2014 whose handy reelection victory was all but decided long before Election Day this year \u2014 ran just four years ago, the contest was decided by less than half of a percentage point, fewer votes than the population of Florida\u2019s 19th-smallest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.florida-demographics.com\/counties_by_population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">county<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What changed?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, DeSantis has the incumbent advantage. And yes, he was lucky enough to ride the Trump wave after 2016 (and smart enough to adopt what worked). But his decisive victory should also signal to Republican state leaders across the country: In today\u2019s political climate, voters are rewarding competent governance and tactical culture war offensives. <\/p>\n<p>Too many Republican governors have taken office only to reject the concerns of the people who voted them in. Republicans, from Indiana Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/24\/indianas-republican-governor-loves-womens-sports-he-just-wont-protect-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eric Holcomb<\/a> to Utah Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/25\/utah-legislature-overwhelmingly-overrides-governors-wish-that-boys-invade-girls-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spencer Cox<\/a> to Arkansas\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/12\/governor-asa-hutchinson-doubles-down-on-genital-mutilation-for-minors-under-the-guise-of-limited-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Asa Hutchinson<\/a> to South Dakota\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/01\/kristi-noem-has-no-good-explanations-for-vetoing-the-girls-sports-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kristi Noem<\/a>, have opposed bills by their state legislatures to keep sexually confused males out of girls\u2019 sports. (DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/01\/biology-not-ideology-ron-desantis-signs-bill-protecting-womens-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signed<\/a> the Florida legislature\u2019s bill to do just that, signaling that Florida is \u201cgoing to go off of biology, not ideology.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Holcomb <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/04\/10\/indiana-governor-to-churches-worship-as-i-say-or-be-shut-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shuttered<\/a> church buildings and limited services to 10 people or fewer during the Covid panic. Cox <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/16\/utah-governor-defends-racism-as-long-as-its-against-white-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defended<\/a> excluding white kids from a basketball scholarship program based on their skin color. Noem <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/19\/why-wont-gov-kristi-noem-let-south-dakota-ban-vaccine-passports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused<\/a> to call a special session to allow her legislature to pass a bill banning Covid vaccine passports. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/11\/24\/republican-governor-not-wearing-a-mask-is-just-like-driving-drunk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">compared<\/a> people (including many of his constituents) who chose not to wear a mask during Covid to drunk drivers. The office of Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/07\/office-of-republican-tennessee-governor-bill-lee-refuses-to-condemn-fbi-raid-prosecution-of-11-peaceful-pro-lifers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused<\/a> to condemn the politicized Justice Department\u2019s prosecution of peaceful pro-life demonstrators in his state and the FBI\u2019s raid on the home of one pro-lifer, 73-year-old Tennessean Chester Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>It shouldn\u2019t be hard for red-state governors to stand against boys in girls\u2019 sports, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/21\/gov-desantis-is-right-to-attack-disney-republicans-everywhere-should-follow-his-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sterilization<\/a> of sexually confused kids, the killing of babies in the womb, porn in school libraries, or racist school curricula. By latching onto the fringe depravity in their own party, Democrats have made Republicans\u2019 jobs of opposing them easy! Republican politicians watching DeSantis turn Florida from a purple state that voted for Obama twice into, this year, a reliably red state that elected its GOP incumbent by certain double digits, should take note.<\/p>\n<p> 1. Pick Culture War Fights <\/p>\n<p>For too long, Republicans have played defense, relying on economic talking points while failing to win or even preserve ground in the culture war Democrats have waged from preschool classrooms to abortion facilities. Republicans who don\u2019t know what time it is allow left-wing activists to target unsuspecting students with racialized curricula and transgender propaganda, even in deep-red states such as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/07\/report-red-state-public-schools-encourage-kids-to-go-transgender-behind-their-parents-backs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Idaho<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Instead of rolling over for corporate interests or worrying about criticism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If every Republican state goes on the offensive as forcefully as Florida has, it could do more for the country than any changes in Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":1730726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}