Ron DeSantis
Along with up-to-date political coverage, The Floridian takes the opportunity to post about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the legislation he signs into law, and the political maneuvering he does around the state and country. Read more here!
With Rep. Byron Donalds having already raised over $20 million and is continuing to pile up key political campaign endorsements since announcing his 2026 gubernatorial run, has the fat lady begun to sing for anyone thinking about entering the Republican gubernatorial primary sweepstakes? Politicos standing around just about every single political water cooler from Tallahassee […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that an ongoing multi-agency operation in the Florida Panhandle has yielded over 200 arrests of undocumented migrants, with more expected by the end of the day. 45 Florida Highway Patrol officers worked with 20 federal authorities—from agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, Border Patrol, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement—to […]
Florida Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins ripped California for failing to crack down on illegal immigration, blaming Gov. Gavin Newsom's policies for an undocumented truck driver killing three Floridians in a traffic accident. "We're done with that shit," Collins said at a press conference in Stockton, California, taking every opportunity to slam Newsom and California. "He […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis isn't worried about Baker County residents opposing his new "Deportation Depot" center for undocumented immigrants. Why? Because he won by "Saddam Hussein margins" in the last election. "I got 90% of the vote in Baker County, so they're probably excited about ['Deportation Depot']. And I think if you look at like these […]
A coalition of Senate and House Democrats is pushing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for more information regarding the uses of the controversial Everglades Detention Facility, also known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) and Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley (D) spearheaded a letter to the heads of DHS, Immigration and Customs […]
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has announced that he and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier will collaborate on an effort to correct the 2020 U.S. Census potentially awarding Florida additional seats in the House of Representatives. Gov. DeSantis released a statement claiming that the previous Biden Administration was aware that Florida’s 2020 Census data was […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis is sending Florida's new Lieutenant Governor to California to "take possession" of the undocumented truck driver who killed three people in a traffic incident, he announced Wednesday. Jay Collins, a retired Green Beret and the newly-appointed Lieutenant Governor of Florida, is en route to California as of 3:00 p.m. Thursday to bring […]
With Florida's political rumor mill running at full speed pushing the narrative that newly-appointed Lt. Governor Jay Collins will run for Florida governor in 2026, did the former U.S. Army Green Beret just take another step closer to running by taking a shot at Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Jolly? "The nation is screaming for change. […]
Florida’s Board of Education decided Wednesday that the Alachua school board violated the First Amendment after one member celebrated Hulk Hogan’s death and another tried to throw a dissenter out of a meeting. The Alachua County School Board will have to undergo training on First Amendment rules in partnership with the Department of Education and […]
After naming him his Lt. Governor, will Gov. Ron DeSantis endorse Lt. Governor Jay Collins in the 2026 Republican gubernatorial race against Rep. Bryon Donalds, a Trump endorsee? Collins is said to be aggressively doing the calculus on what a gubernatorial run would look like for him, but where will the money come? That is […]
He says he is qualified for the job, and that he would garner enough support from Republican voters if he ran, but will newly-appointed Lt. Governor Jay Collins run against Rep. Byron Donalds in the 2026 Republican gubernatorial primary race? The answer is a big maybe. Probably. Collins was one of DeSantis' big allies in […]
TALLAHASSEE—Florida's Alligator Alcatraz was only the first massive migrant detention center built to help federal authorities detain and deport undocumented immigrants, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed Tuesday. Soon, 1,000 beds will be added to Indiana's Miami Correctional Facility to create the "Speedway Slammer" detention center in a clear replication of South Florida's […]
TALLAHASSEE—Florida's chief legal officer is suing porn companies headquartered in the Czech Republic and Miami for failing to block kids from accessing adult content. In a complaint filed Tuesday in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit in Sarasota County, state attorney general James Uthmeier is seeking over $50,000 per violation from the nine companies—which are behind five […]
TALLAHASSEE—Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to give Florida's auditing task force a new name with an edgy acronym: FAFO. Standing for the Florida Agency for Fiscal Oversight, FAFO—not to be confused with the popular "F—k around and find out" adage—was proposed by DeSantis ally and newly-appointed chief financial officer Blaise Ingoglia during the GOP's Red Florida […]
TALLAHASSEE—Alex Lanfranconi, the communications director for the West Virginia governor, will become Gov. Ron DeSantis's new chief spokesperson. Lanfranconi, a Tampa native and DeSantis's former deputy communications director, will take over as Communications Director for DeSantis, the governor's office announced Friday. The move comes hours after Bryan Griffin, who currently holds the position, announced his […]
Hundreds of immigrants illegally in Florida have been deported from Alligator Alcatraz, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Friday. 100 of these migrants have been fully deported through flights chartered by the Department of Homeland Security, while hundreds more have exited the Everglades detention center and are en route to leaving the country through a stopover […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis' Thursday press conference was crashed by a protestor blasting Alligator Alcatraz and accusing Republican leaders of being "pedophiles." The unidentified middle-aged white man interrupted DeSantis just minutes after the Bradenton press conference began. He cut off DeSantis, who was reminiscing about the newly deceased Hulk Hogan's "Wrestlemania," to criticize conservatives for endorsing […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis thinks that a viral video of Jacksonville sheriffs smashing a black man's car window before punching him in the face was lacking context and pushing a "narrative," he claimed Wednesday. "I heard that it was debunked," DeSantis said at a Jacksonville press conference, acknowledging that he hasn't personally watched the traffic stop […]
