The governor has highlighted the flights from Israel to Florida that he helped organize.
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a meet and greet, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in Creston, Iowa. | Charlie Neibergall/APMIAMI — Hours after Ron DeSantis greeted Americans Sunday night disembarking off a flight from Israel he helped arrange, the Florida governor was on an Iowa radio station touting the effort.
While the flights show DeSantis’ know-how and knack for driving the national conversation, his use of executive powers to further his political ambitions may not upend the trajectory of the race. The flights could serve as a reminder of DeSantis’ potential and strength as a governor but also expose his weaknesses as a presidential candidate, some GOP strategists contend.
“Gov. DeSantis seems to be better at running for president when he’s governing rather than campaigning,” said Jon McHenry, a GOP pollster in New Hampshire whose firm North Star Opinion Research Group worked on DeSantis’ 2018 gubernatorial campaign. “He drives the conversation more effectively when he’s governing, and actually doing something, rather than sort of talking about what ideological perspective he might be coming from.
The governor has used his executive in the past to carry out his policy and political goals. He suspended elected Democratic prosecutors who, DeSantis contended, were refusing to prosecute certain crimes. During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic,He also famously transported nearly 50 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard last year in a move widely panned by critics as a stunt, using more than $1.5 million in interest earned off federal Covid-19 aid.
“I saw all these people standing around, then everybody started cheering and stuff. I got goosebumps,” Neumann told reporters this week.
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