Governor DeSantis Engages with Voters in North Augusta, South Carolina

[chrisp]

I have never seen such a professional who doesn’t complain about anyone and is the true American dream.

[qdfgivi]

DeSantis is a true leader! I wish I could have seen him today in North Augusta, SC!

[smithusa]

Can’t wait for this man to save our country ❤️ 🇺🇸

[michaelbarnett]

Best governor in my lifetime in Florida!!

[love]

I do look forward to vote for you, sir!

[isaacroth]

I don't know how anyone can prefer Trump's deranged rants over this

[Gww-]

The future of our country lies with this man!
DeSantis 2024💕🇺🇸🐊

[fairfortune]

Looking good! It's tough for me to decide between DeSantis and Christie. So far it's DeSantis for me but it could be Christie too

[griffin]

Thank you for behaving like a gentleman and someone my kids can look up to.

[davidinwashington]

Gonna be the best President of my lifetime. And I grew up during the Reagan years. DeSantis 2024!

[dodieodie]

I love what DeSantis has done in Florida. I want him to speak to what he will be able to do on the federal level and why that will be effective. He has to move from the governor's mindset into the Presidential frame. What will he be able to do as a President to accomplish more for everyone in the country? He has my vote, but I want him to be clearer about his plans for the Presidency.

[macdank]

About the cannabis issue, the guy asking the question represented the vets of this country, and your answer defaulted to "protect the children" as the counter argument. This isn't about the children, it's about adults. Keeping cannabis illegal invites black markets, the introduction to the "drug culture" due to it being illegal, and the "fent" issue that comes with it as well. Legalize and regulate. Then we will know "what they are putting in this stuff".

[nicholaszamboli]

The satisfaction rate of a course which gives underpaid teachers a 3k bonus is 90%. Shocking!

[phillipb]

Come on DeSantis. You and Trump need to combine forces, nobody would stop you. Trump/DeSantis 2024 DeSantis 2028, 2032

[griffin]

Vote for a decent human being who is ELECTABLE.

[rudymeza]

Ron DeSantis is the Candidate for the job of President, 2024

[charlesgreen]

Don’t Vote this guy!! Alcohol is dangerous as well and it shouldn’t be a crime to smoke pot period.

[durch]

He is just like Trump but more articulate and less hot-headed.

[TwentyFour]

no one is lacing state tested cannabis

[TheDude]

Even a cursory dip into the statistics of social and economic well-being reveals that Florida falls short in almost any measure that matters to the lives of its citizens. More than four years into the DeSantis governorship, Florida continues to languish toward the bottom of state rankings assessing the quality of health care, school funding, long-term elder care, and other areas key to a successful society.

Florida may be the place where “woke goes to die”—as DeSantis is fond of saying—but it is also where teachers’ salaries are among the lowest in the nation, unemployment benefits are stingier than in any other state, and wage theft flourishes with little interference from the DeSantis administration. In 2021, DeSantis campaigned against a successful ballot initiative to raise the state’s minimum wage, which had been stuck at $8.65 an hour. Under DeSantis’s watch, the Sunshine State has not exactly been a workers’ paradise.

Largely because of DeSantis’s obstinacy, Florida is one of 10 states that have refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, an act of political spite that has cost those states billions in federal health care dollars and cost thousands of people their lives. More than 12% of Floridians are without medical insurance, a worse record than all but four other states. Despite having the country’s highest percentage of retirees, Florida has the worst long-term care among the 50 states, according to the American Association of Retired Persons.

Public schools fare no better than health care in DeSantis’s Florida. Not only did Florida rank 49th in the country for average teacher pay in 2020, but the Education Law Center, a non-profit advocacy group based in New Jersey, found in a 2021 report that the state had the seventh-lowest per-pupil funding in the country. Education Week, which ranks states public school annually, looking beyond mere test scores, placed Florida 23rd in its 2021 report, a lackluster showing for a large and wealthy state.