There's a reason Trump chose Florida for his reelection announcement.
Florida TodayIf Florida's state transportation authorities ever wanted to rename Interstate 4, the highway that slashes across the central part of the state from Tampa Bay to Daytona Beach, they might consider calling it, "The Road to the White House."
"If you need to keep Florida, and you have to pick one place to go, you have to go the I-4 corridor," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics and a leading expert on presidential elections.At first glance, Florida might not seem like much of a"swing state." Republicans have controlled the state Legislature since 1996 and the governor's office since 1999. Both U.S. senators are Republicans.
"We used to be the 1% state," said Susan MacManus, political science professor emeritus at the University of South Florida, about the typical margins in past statewide races. "As of 2018, we are the half-a-percent state."Trump is no stranger to the Sunshine State. He spends many weekends at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. And he held countless rallies here during the 2016 election season. He ended up winning the state by 1.2 percentage points over Hillary Clinton.
"This is a state that the Republicans have to win to win the White House," MacManus said, noting Trump's apparent weakness in the Midwest.Meanwhile Democratic candidates — all 23 of them — are spending the majority of their efforts in Iowa and New Hampshire, which in February kicked off the process of choosing the party's nominee."The Democrats are fractured among 23 candidates," Gruters said. "We are unified around the president.
Besides campaigning for Trump, DeSantis could continue to push policies the president favors. On Friday, DeSantis signed a bill banning so-called"sanctuary cities" in Florida, something the governor lobbied hard for. The president routinely rails against sanctuary cities.concrete definition of sanctuary cities, they are broadly described as jurisdictions that have policies limiting cooperation with federal authorities in immigration enforcement actions.
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