Tuesday’s blue tsunami upturned the political order nationwide, even in unlikely places like Texas — but Florida somehow held a solid red line.
Gov.-elect Byron Donalds, US Sen. Ashley Moody, Attorney General James Uthmeier and state CFO Blaise Ingoglia, Republicans all, won their races in a year that was otherwise a widespread disaster for their party.
How did Florida — for decades, the nation’s quintessential swing state — do it?
Credit the man who made it happen: Gov. Ron DeSantis.
I’ve seen his strategy firsthand.
When my family first moved to Florida almost five years ago, we joined an influx of blue-state escapees fleeing terrible pandemic policies, rising crime and crushing taxes.
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