Ron Desantis' fall from Grace: “He fell completely to the ground” | republican

TFor Ron Desantis, the governor of Florida, who would have been king, Hese are demanding days for Ron Desantis. Hardly two and a half years since his re-election and the anointing of his landslide as a “development” of the Republican Party in a lazy New York post-cover, he is isolated from the national political stage and drives with his once dazzling legislator in Florida and raises the finish line of his second term with an unsafe way.

According to many analysts, it was a fall of breathtaking speed and size. And while only a few are willing to completely rule out a comeback for a 46-year-old politician who was the favorite of the Republican Hartes right until he dared to challenge Donald Trump for the nomination of the President of his party in 2024, it is also clear that everything has changed.

“He fully plunged to the ground at this point and is now being treated like a more average governor,” said Aubrey Jewett, professor of political science at the University of Central Florida.

“He has lost the ability to push things through. He has lost the shine he had had that he couldn't go wrong in republican conservative circles at a time.

Desantis' once enclosed grip for Florida's legislator has weakened, replaced by open disagreements, bitter hostility and a spin of slopes because of a series of topics than the two Republican legislative chambers try to reverse six years of passivity and to establish themselves again as a ko-equal government branch.

Desantis, Daniel Perez, with the words of Florida's Republican House spokesman, has started to tell “lies and stories that never happened”, and is increasingly susceptible to “tantrums”.

The governor now struck back what he sees as a “miserable” agenda that is persecuted by the majority. He also replaced himself when examining a charity that envelops his wife Casey Desantis when she thinks about whether he should run to him in the elections next year in order to refer him to him when he is referred to in January 2027.

Some Republicans, including Perez, would like to know how $ 10 million for a statutory agreement of $ 67 million for taxpayers in Florida via the Hope Florida, the Casey Desantis, founded by her husband's allises, to improve the abortion and marijuana obligations to political measures.

“At some point Casey looked as if she was the legacy of Ron Desantis and she would run and he would surely try to position her to position her,” said Jewett.

“That would extend his legacy and contribute to staying nearby for a few more years. He can be the first husband and people would say that he is a more partner or whatever. That would take part of his lame duck status away.”

It is this drift in the direction of political irrelevance, especially on the national stage that some analysts believe.

If the events took place differently, he could sit in the White House. Instead, the influence of the unique Prince of Maga (Trump Make America Great Again Movement) is limited to regular guest appearances in FOX News, and “press conferences”, which he organizes almost daily in Florida, whose decisions displeased him and express his hardline positions for the enforcement of immigration, higher training and drag show performers.

According to Jewett, Desantis, of rising newcomers to Trump's firmament, in particular Vice President JD Vance and Marco Rubio, the former Senator of Florida and current Foreign Minister, both named as potential successors by the President this month.

“It is noteworthy that when he was asked, Trump was asked who could follow him, Desantis not mentioned at all,” said Jewett. “When Desantis challenged Trump for the nomination of the President, Trump ticked it off and ticked many Trump supporters, who had generally liked him until then.

“It came out when he ran that he did not have the great personality that a traditional politician has. He just didn't seem good to shake hands, the food of hot dogs and kissing babies, the kind of typical American political things.

Other observers see the same distant and confrontative way behind Desantis' falling with the former allies in Florida, and a reason why many hurry to support the Trump-supported congress MP Byron Donalds for governors before Casey Desantis made a decision.

“I don't know that you absolutely think, Donalds is the best since cut bread – I think it is” Well, we have to stop Casey from getting in, “said Michael Binder, professor of political science and public administration at the University of North Florida.

“The Desantis Trump feud seems to have mitigated, but there are absolutely people in both camps on both sides who have not forgotten and will not forget. Desantis' political style is in a way similar to Trump because he makes many enemies.

“You don't see that with Ron Desantis. As soon as you are in the outs with Desantis, you stay with the outs. They burn these bridges.”

Desantis' office did not answer a number of questions that the guardian had submitted about the rest of his term or plans afterwards.

His predecessor, as governor Rick Scott, successfully asked the democratic incumbent Bill Nelson 2018 for his US Senate seat and remains an influential Republican voice in Washington. Such a path appears for Desantis, a former congress member who, in January Florida's former attorney in Genyhle Ashley Moody appointed Rubios's free Senate for the duration of his term.

Desantis would have to question a narrow ally that can already be defended in the 2026 elections.

Nevertheless, said Jewett, the last chapters of Desantis' political career still have to be written.

“It doesn't look good and his political prospects are definitely weaker than her, his street seems to be much more difficult at the moment,” he said.

“But you just never know. A large game card is how people look Trump in another year. It is a decent assumption that the Maga movement continues, and if Trump really gets to stick, Desantis' distance from Trump is actually positive in the long term.

“Even if he will not be reached too much in the next year and a half, he had a five -year -old run that entirely through the most competitive battlefield in a strong republican state.