Intensifying his hard-right shift that began during the pandemic, the 44-year-old Republican governor in recent weeks has pushed the limits of divisive cultural battles over abortion, LGBTQ rights, sex education, guns, immigration and diversity
DeSantis is expected to sign the bills into law. He has driven a hardline conservative agenda as he seeks to bolster support of Republican primary voters
In 2022 libraries recorded requests to withdraw 2,571 titles, twice as many as in the previous year. Florida has laws that specify jail terms of up to five years for teachers and librarians who bypass bans
The board also approved defending itself in federal court in Tallahassee where Disney filed its lawsuit last Wednesday against the governor, the board and its five members
The Democrat is shaping the 2024 election as a moral battle for the ‘soul of America,’ which he says is at risk from Trump’s ‘MAGA Republicans’
DeSantis is slated to headline Iowa Rep. Randy Feenstra’s annual summer fundraiser in northwest Iowa on May 13, A Trump campaign official says the former president now plans to be in Iowa on the same day
Georgia is among the states where Trump-aligned Republicans have joined the ranks of party leadership, but mounting electoral losses raise questions about whether they’re out of step with voters
Facing questions this week about his standing within the GOP and his fight with Disney, he’s sometimes appeared agitated, reinforcing concerns within corners of his own party about his readiness for the rigor of presidential politics
Disney alleges the governor waged a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” after the company opposed a law critics call “Don’t Say Gay”. DeSantis said Disney should be held accountable under a new board he appointed, rather than govern itself
After celebrating last year’s overthrow of ‘Roe v. Wade,’ Republicans are now avoiding the topic so as not to hurt their chances ahead of the 2024 election
The company alleges that the Florida governor waged a ‘targeted campaign of government retaliation’ after Disney opposed a law critics call ‘Don’t Say Gay’
The former two-term governor of Arkansas pledged Wednesday to be a leader who ‘will bring out the best of America’ and aimed in his speech to draw contrasts with other GOP hopefuls on top issues
State Republicans filed on Tuesday a proposal that would exempt presidential candidates from Florida’s so-called resign to run law, which prohibits elected officials from qualifying as a candidate for another office that would overlap with their current term
Critics said the agency bowed to political pressure and removed several topics from the framework, including the Black Lives Matter and slavery reparations movements
The president’s decision to run for re-election raises little excitement, even among Democratic supporters
The current president of the United States released a short video to present his candidacy for a second term, where he could face the same rival he defeated in 2020
Top Democrats have remained solidly unified behind the president, despite his low approval ratings and many Americans saying they’d rather not see the 80-year-old Biden try for four more years in the White House
In South Carolina and Nevada, his operatives are moving quickly to build out a political team that is essentially a campaign in waiting. In Washington, his most vocal supporters are urging him to announce his presidential intentions now
With the president planning to announce he is running for re-election and the real estate mogul the favorite of Republican voters, all signs suggest there will be a repeat of the 2020 White House race. It would be the first time this has happened in seven decades
A second wave of Republican candidates is preparing to enter the presidential race later this spring following a monthslong lull as the GOP field finally takes shape
The Board of Education approved a ban on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, expanding the law that bans those lesson up to grade 3
While the Florida governor is yet to enter the 2024 presidential race officially, the former president is aiming to drum up support in the state, securing endorsements from more than one-third of Republicans in the state’s congressional delegation
The new board wants to prohibit mask mandates and Covid-19 vaccine requirements in an evolving showdown between the Republican governor and the world’s best-known entertainment company
Leading Republicans are struggling as they concede that the party’s policies are unpopular with the very voters they need to win the presidency
The ban would give Governor Ron DeSantis a key political victory among Republican primary voters as he prepares to launch a presidential candidacy
The Republican highlighted his biography as a Black man who overcame poverty to argue that Democrats are too liberal and have needlessly divided the country
The Florida governor’s approach displays his willingness to leverage the powers of his office to notch political wins and punish political enemies