2023-05-24 23:26:07
US Republican DeSantis wants to run in the presidential election
Florida Governor: Ron De Santis is aiming higher
What: REUTERS
Ron DeSantis is considered the biggest internal party competitor for Donald Trump. Now the Republican is officially entering the presidential race. The 44-year-old could also pose a threat to incumbent Joe Biden.
Dhe prominent US Republican Ron DeSantis wants to become President of the United States. “I’m running for President to lead the great American comeback,” the governor of the US state of Florida wrote on Twitter on Wednesday (local time). Previously, the newspaperWashington Post“The application was confirmed, citing a spokeswoman for the 44-year-old.
In a first campaign video, the 44-year-old inner-party rival of ex-President Donald Trump said: “We need the courage to lead and the strength to win.” Actually, the rising Republican star, who is considered Trump’s most dangerous opponent in the race for the Conservative presidential nomination is said to be announcing his candidacy in a live conversation with Twitter owner Elon Musk on the platform.
However, there were initially technical problems there, which immediately led to amused comments. For example, President Joe Biden tweeted, “This link works” and linked to a campaign fundraising page for him.
“We just have a massive amount of people online, so the servers are a bit overloaded,” Musk said apologetically. The transmission later worked.
Governor and former Congressman DeSantis’ presidential bid had been long awaited. On Wednesday, the graduate of the elite universities of Harvard and Yale submitted the documents required for a candidacy to the US Federal Elections Commission.
According to polls, the conservative hardliner is currently the most promising Republican candidate alongside former President Donald Trump. Trump had already announced in November that he would enter the presidential race for the 2024 election.
DeSantis has been governor of the southern US state of Florida since early 2019. In November 2022 he was confirmed in office with a strong result. This strengthened his position and his striving for higher things. He has long been considered Trump’s biggest internal party competitor, after years ago he was a kind of mentor to him.
Wokeness declared war
In Florida, DeSantis primarily attracted attention with his right-wing politics. Under him, laws were passed or introduced in the state that discriminate against minorities, curtail academic freedom at universities or interfere with public education by banning teaching.
Above all, the Republican has declared war on the so-called wokeness. The term “woke” means something like “to be awake” and initially referred to racial discrimination. However, conservatives in the United States are now using it in a derogatory way, complaining that they believe that action against various forms of discrimination goes too far.
Father of three, DeSantis has had a straight career. He attended the elite universities of Yale and Harvard, was in the Navy and deployed in Iraq. Prior to his election to governor, DeSantis served several years as a representative in the House of Representatives.
Like Trump, the Republican belongs to the right wing of the party and shares similar hard-line positions. But he doesn’t have the penchant for scandals, loss of control and chaos, but is considered to be disciplined, sorted, thoughtful. For those in the party and at the grassroots who are fed up with Trump’s antics but want a candidate with Trumpian content, DeSantis is seen as a viable alternative.
Biden probably without serious competition
The presidential election is scheduled for November 5, 2024. A broad field of applicants is expected for the Republicans. In addition to Trump and DeSantis, former American UN ambassador Nikki Haley has so far made her ambitions official – but she is far behind in the polls. Anyone who actually wants to become the party’s official candidate in the end must first prevail in internal party primaries.
US President Joe Biden is running for re-election from the Democrats. As an incumbent, he is unlikely to face any serious competition from within the party in the election campaign. Biden has been in office since January 2021. At the time, he was the oldest president ever to enter the White House. When the election is about a year and a half away, he will be 81 years old. At the end of a possible second term, he would be 86.
In recent months there have been discussions within the Democratic Party as to whether Biden would be a suitable candidate for another presidential race because of his age. According to polls, there are also major reservations among the population about a second term for the Democrat, given Biden’s age. As a potential opponent among the Republicans, the much younger DeSantis could possibly be dangerous for him.
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