{"id":1740422,"date":"2022-11-15T22:17:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T03:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740422"},"modified":"2022-11-15T22:17:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T03:17:51","slug":"desantis-on-gops-lackluster-midterm-performance-floridas-the-blueprint-for-how-to-dominate-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-on-gops-lackluster-midterm-performance-floridas-the-blueprint-for-how-to-dominate-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis On GOP\u2019s Lackluster Midterm Performance: Florida\u2019s The \u2018Blueprint\u2019 For How To Dominate Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fdesantis-on-gops-lackluster-midterm-performance-floridas-the-blueprint-for-how-to-dominate-politics%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=1740422&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>Florida Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> (R) said during a press conference Tuesday that the way Republicans have governed in the state of Florida is the blueprint for how Republicans can \u201cfundamentally change the overall political terrain in a very strong pro-freedom direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis made the remarks after responding to questions about former President Donald Trump\u2019s repeated attacks on him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe focused on results and leadership. And, you know, at the end of the day, I would just tell people to go check out the scoreboard from last Tuesday night,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cThe fact of the matter is, it was the greatest Republican victory in the history of the state of Florida. And it wasn\u2019t just the best governor victory, of course it was that, but we swept in super majorities in the Florida Legislature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have 85 Republicans out of 120 in our state house, we\u2019ve never had that many before,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe have 28 senators out of 40 that are Republicans, never had that many. \u2026 We had 16 Republican members of the U.S. House from Florida, now we have 20 going up there. So that\u2019s four, four seats right there. So at the end of the day, I think people respond to the leadership, they respond to the results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When talking about the GOP\u2019s lackluster performance in the midterms, DeSantis said that it was just a reality that there were \u201ca lot of disappointments\u201d in the results for the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a hugely underwhelming, disappointing performance, especially given that Biden\u2019s policies are overwhelmingly unpopular, people think the country is going in the wrong direction,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cThe one place I think that people can look to as the blueprint is Florida. Because what have we done? I mean, you know, we came in, I had a very close election. In fact, before I became governor, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, all the major races, governor, presidential, were one point or less for that time. So in my race, was less than a point in 2018. And so we came in to a very, very large, diverse swing state. And we led, and we were on offense, and we didn\u2019t, we didn\u2019t shy away from big issues, we took on those issues. And we won victory after victory for the people of Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get people to vote for us who may not be in our party,\u201d he later added. \u201cAnd that\u2019s really what you need to do. You don\u2019t build, you don\u2019t win by a million and a half votes if you only get your own party. And so what we were able to do, yes, obviously, we got a lot of Republicans turning out because they were supportive, and we appreciate that. But you know, we won Independents by between 15 and 20 points. We probably won 60% of Hispanics, statewide. That\u2019s a record, no Republican has ever done that. I don\u2019t think anyone\u2019s ever done that. We won women, that hasn\u2019t been done by a Republican governor for 20 years. So we did that. We won Miami Dade County, biggest, most urban county in Florida, 70% Latino, and not only did we win it for the first time in 20 years, we won it by 11%. It was a landslide down in Miami Dade. Not only that, we won Palm Beach County, which has not been won by a Republican for governor in almost 40 years. And we were able to win Palm Beach, which people didn\u2019t think was necessarily possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at Osceola County, you know, we flipped that, I mean a huge swing in our direction. Again, that\u2019s a predominantly Hispanic county. And so I think that what Florida showed is that the good policies, and the good leadership can reverberate just beyond your little silo of the people that agree with you on everything. You know, we had people coming out to vote for us who may not have voted for Republicans in the past. And I think that, ultimately, is the way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think the other governors who were successful, had similar programs,\u201d he concluded. \u201cI think some of the others around the country, you had situations where these Independent voters aren\u2019t voting for our candidates, even with Biden in the White House and the failures that we\u2019re seeing, you know, that\u2019s a problem. And so Florida, I think really shows the blueprint of what you can do to not only win, but really fundamentally change the overall political terrain in a very strong pro-freedom direction. And that\u2019s what we\u2019ve done here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p><em>RON DESANTIS, FLORIDA GOVERNOR (R): Well, you know, one of the things I\u2019ve learned in this job is when you\u2019re doing, when you\u2019re leading, when you\u2019re getting things done, you take incoming fire, that\u2019s just the nature of it. 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