Florida Republicans’ Death Wish

If they move forward, Republicans may see their last statewide victory and the Californication of Florida will truly begin.

Do Florida Republicans have a death wish? Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans just won a landmark victory in which Republicans carried blue bastions like Miami-Dade and Palm Beach County for the first time in decades. Governor Ron DeSantis defeated his opponent, former Governor Charlie Crist by a 19% margin, while heavily outspent U.S. Senator Marco Rubio trashed his Democrat challenger, Congresswoman Val Demings by a solid 16%.

Putting aside the Republican Legislature’s decision to essentially exempt Governor Ron DeSantis from the current state law which prohibits those holding state office from pursuing federal office without first resigning from their state office.

The special session of the Florida Legislature is considering “reforms” to the state election law which indisputably would mandate the use of voting machines and Arizona-style vote tabulators, prohibit the hand-counting of paper ballots, lose the signature verification rules for mail-in ballots, and substantially expand the forms of identification required to register to vote—making the voter registration of non-U.S. Citizens far easier.

Even more offensive are amendments which limit challenges to any election result to election board officials, entirely eliminating citizen standing, input, and oversight. These “reforms” were largely generated by various supervisors of election who deeply resented calls for audits of election results when many substantial and legitimate irregularities were identified in the 2020 and 2022 elections in various counties.

CLICK HERE FOR AN EXCELLENT RUNDOWN IN ONE COUNTY ALONE.

President Donald Trump summed this up in a pithy post on his social media platform, Truth Social:

Here is a specific rundown of the areas currently being considered by the Florida Legislature:

So far, the Republicans Leadership in the Florida Legislature has shown no indication that they will reconsider these dangerous “reforms.” If they move forward, Republicans may have seen their last statewide victory and the Californication of Florida will truly begin.