{"id":972776,"date":"2021-11-05T15:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=972776"},"modified":"2021-11-05T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:14:08","slug":"ron-desantis-republicans-make-history-overtaking-democrats-in-florida-voter-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-republicans-make-history-overtaking-democrats-in-florida-voter-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis: Republicans Make History, Overtaking Democrats in Florida Voter Registration"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fron-desantis-republicans-make-history-overtaking-democrats-in-florida-voter-registration%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=972776&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Fla-judge-allows-mask-mandates-in-schools-as-Gov-Ron-DeSantis-appeals-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Republicans have made history in the Sunshine State, overtaking Democrats in voter registration for the first time ever,&nbsp;Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I got elected governor, we had 280,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in the state of Florida,\u201d DeSantis said during a press conference in Seminole.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cToday, and it will probably be fully publicized very soon, today for the first time in the history of Florida, we\u2019ve now overtaken Democrats. There are more registered Republicans in Florida than Democrats,\u201d he said, triggering applause in the room.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The governor talked about how Florida has drawn people to the area, as the state has \u201cnever\u201d indulged in the \u201cnonsense\u201d embraced by blue states, including the negative narratives on law enforcement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFrom the very beginning, we backed the people that wear the uniform, and what happens is you see some of these places when they defund or take the funding away, you\u2019ve seen crime absolutely skyrocket,\u201d he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p>Now even places like Seattle are scurrying to try to figure out how we now fund police because they knew how catastrophic that was. So we never did that. And I think some people are looking, it\u2019s like, people can put up sometimes with higher taxes, but if you don\u2019t have safety, public safety, people just aren\u2019t tolerating it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo I think that absolutely fueled a lot of what we\u2019ve seen in terms of the state of Florida,\u201d he said, noting that current migrations have been \u201cdifferent than past migrations in Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s good for us. But I mean honestly \u2026 we would have probably won the New Jersey governor\u2019s race but all the Republicans moved to Florida from New Jersey because they get so frustrated,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately DeSantis said people are seeking refuge in Florida for a range of reasons, \u201cmuch more than taxes\u201d alone. They are also fleeing blue state&nbsp;lawlessness, crime, and \u201cmany other things,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I do think that you\u2019re seeing people move to states that value freedom, and that\u2019s just the reality,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>His announcement coincides with news of the&nbsp;Democratic Governors Association having \u201cno plans to give significant financial help to Florida Democrats as they seek to unseat Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022, a major setback that will make it harder for challengers to take on the popular Republican,\u201d <em>Politico<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/florida\/story\/2021\/11\/04\/no-million-dollar-checks-democratic-governors-may-sit-out-florida-1392319?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=00000159-21fd-d273-a55d-b1ff14960000&amp;nlid=630318\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have made history in the Sunshine State, overtaking Democrats in voter registration for the first time ever,\u00a0Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Friday. \u201cWhen I got elected governor, we &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972776","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}