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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ feud with Disney continues. Why he harms himself with it, but helps Donald Trump.
Males vs Mickey Mouse. Governor vs. Goofy. Ron vs Rapunzel. DeSantis vs. Scrooge McDuck: Just the puns Florida’s governor used against him through his missionary feud Walt Disney triggered are free rough diamonds for Donald Trump’s campaigners.
For weeks, they have been refining the material that the 44-year-old delivers weekly into TV commercials and toxic comments. You can see how the ex-president’s only serious rival to date is doing for the Republican presidential candidacy 2024 gradually self-dismantled.
Why DeSantis messed with Disney
Disney is Sunshine State’s biggest tourism magnet. “Eventually, Disney will stop investing in Florida at all,” Trump teased. Above all, he emphasized that DeSantis publicly speculated about building a prison next to the “Magic Kingdom,” the epicenter of the city-state-like entertainment empire in Orlando. For punishment.
DeSantis wants revenge for daring Disney against his controversial school policy to protest From elementary school to high school, she now declares teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity taboos.
The Governor does not want children and young people to be made familiar with the fact that there are not just men and women. That’s too left for him. To “woke”. That has to go. Read here: Why critics find Ron DeSantis more dangerous than Trump
Why Disney is suing DeSantis
As DeSantis, Disney acquired decades-old rights via a parliamentary resolution self-government the company countered with a legal trick.
DeSantis obsessively searches for tit for tat. Hence the idea of prison construction alongside Mickey Mouse and Scrooge McDuck.
New Disney CEO Bob Iger is turning the tables. He accuses DeSantis of “weaponizing government power” and the right to freedom of speech to restrict. Iger has filed a lawsuit. Lawyers say it is “promising.” Also interesting: USA: Why Joe Biden wants to be president again
US citizens dissatisfied: DeSanti’s poll numbers are so low
Even in the streamlined Republican Party in Florida, tailored to Ron DeSantis, that’s too much for many. You recall that annually 50 million Disney Tourists “boost the economy in Florida”. Three Florida MPs in Washington – Vern Buchanan, Gus Bilirakis and Carlos Gimenez – have therefore demonstratively spoken out in favor of Trump 2024.
heavyweights like Chris Christie and Jeb Bush, both former presidential candidates, call the behavior of the governor, who always seems a bit tense and wooden, “unrepublican”. For the sake of Donald Trump. Read here: Has Ron DeSantis lost the campaign against Donald Trump yet?
His attacks on his former political foster son, who would never have become governor of Tallahassee without him in 2018, are bearing ever more fruit. freshness opinion polls see the ex-incumbent, who has been hit by a number of criminal proceedings, by up to 45 percentage points ahead of DeSantis. DeSantis only wants to officially throw his hat in the ring for the 2024 election in the next few weeks.
How DeSantis harms its legitimacy
DeSantis’ campaign against the entertainment group, which stands for diversity and liberalism, have reinforced the impression that the father of three, who married his wife Casey in 2009 in front of Disney’s fairytale castle “Cinderella Castle”, lacks the format for the big stage.
“Who with Mickey Mouse doesn’t get done,” Barack Obama’s former administration spokesman Robert Gibbs napped recently, “probably don’t want to put the blame on him if China were to attack Taiwan.”
But Disney is not the only construction site that makes DeSantis appear as a political lightweight.
Abortion: This is how DeSantis reduces his eligibility
Since he has offered himself to the evangelical right with radical abortion legislation, attacked the LGBTQ community, further promoted the gun madness by relaxing it and wanted to take the media by a legal rein, doubts have been growing about his eligibility in left-of-center populations. Additional Information: The battle for abortion via the pill is entering the next round
Unmistakable indication: The billionaire Thomas Petterffy, a traditionally important one financier in the conservative scene, who absolutely wants to prevent Trump from returning, has put his wallet away out of incomprehension about the fact that in Florida abortions will be banned from the sixth week in the future. “Me and some friends, we keep our powder dry.”
His finding: Across America, over 70% of people are bipartisan in favor of a right to abortion – tends to be up to the twelfth or even 15th week. DeSantis’ radical solution offends many and reinforces the culture warrior image of the Republicans.
How DeSantis plays Donald Trump into the cards
In the past few days, Ron DeSantis has been trying to get himself into the campaign banter to evade and gain height. After a reading tour for his new book, which is considered proof of entry for 2024, the regional politician traveled between Tokyo, London, Jerusalem and Seoul. Official: To attract companies to the Florida location. In truth: To gradually build up a statesmanlike profile that does not yet exist and to produce nice headlines for the home.
Which somehow went wrong. In the final leg, DeSantis spoke to 50 UK business leaders. “He looked bored and stared at his feet,” Politico magazine quoted a participant as saying. Another rough diamond for the campaigners of Donald Trump.
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