Wednesday, March 1, 2023

DeSantis

Ron DeSantis is being touted as a presidential candidate. He is 44 years old a native Flordian. He graduated from Yale magna cum laude and from Harvard Law cum laud and was a Naval officer deployed in Iraq in 2007. He was elected to congress and he ran for governor the first time 5 years ago and won by 35,000 and this past year he was reelected winning by 1.5 million votes. He was raised in a middle income family as his father installed cable TV and his mother was a nurse. At Yale he was captain of the baseball team. He is married with three children, catholic and limits abortions after 15 weeks. Florida, a state where there is no state income tax has a budget surplus $22 billion. Last year 330,000 people moved to Florida than any other state. The main reasons are no income tax and low cost of living. Average cost of a home in Florida is $350,000 compared to New York and California's $700,000. It is noteworthy that both New York and California are losing population. His approval rating is 62% including 46% among democrats. 62% of Hispanics and 40% of Blacks approve.

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