Ron DeSantis

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday hosted his tenth and eleventh campaign events against Florida's ballot amendments, focusing today on a measure legalizing recreational marijuana that his administration argues should be "slaughtered." With just one day left until the election, DeSantis campaigned in Miami and Orlando alongside other state officials like Lieutenant Gov. Jeanette Nunez and […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis will enter the fray on Friday in a brutal, historically expensive Ohio Senate race between a popular Democrat incumbent and a new conservative hopeful locked in a dead heat race that could decide the Senate majority party. The Florida Governor will attend Republican candidate Bernie Moreno's 2:30 p.m. rally in Defiance, Ohio […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday touted Florida's leading economy as a top reason why voters should stomp out an amendment legalizing recreational marijuana, pointing out that the state's financial status is so good there's no need for additional "weed money" to buttress it. The Governor's comments happened at a West Palm Beach roundtable held to […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday questioned the need for legalized recreational marijuana when the state's medical weed program is already allegedly being taken advantage of. At his newest campaign event against a ballot initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana, called Amendment 3, the Florida Governor pointed out that nearly a million Floridians already have medical […]

The clock is ticking. In his seventh campaign-style event in two weeks, with seven days left until the election, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday implored Floridians to vote against two pro-abortion and pro-marijuana amendments that he believes to be deceptive and dangerous. While the Governor has blasted the two initiatives since they were slotted onto […]

After Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis rounded out five campaign events this week opposing a new measure legalizing weed, one of the Governor's top staffers has taken to social media to create and laud a list of who is voting "no" on the controversial, Trump-endorsed measure. While the Governor has eviscerated […]

As most of the state gears up for the newly opened early voting, Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off his fifth campaign event in one week against Florida's controversial ballot initiatives, slamming the proposed amendment to legalize marijuana as a "monstrosity" and "trainwreck" that will not pass. He spoke at a roundtable event with Surgeon General […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday claimed that if a new marijuana amendment passes in November, the measure would legally protect a weed-carrying truck heading to a dispensary if it runs over a child. He blasted the initiative, called Amendment 3, at a Cape Coral press conference as a monopolized "weed cartel" that would allow the […]

A proposed amendment that would overturn Florida's six-week abortion ban and enshrine constitutional access to the procedure has drawn out and split one key demographic ahead of the election, leaving Floridians to wonder: who is telling the truth? The two main players in the debate over the measure, called Amendment 4, are Gov. Ron DeSantis' […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday two-fold support for marinas and fisheries suffering from the deadly Hurricane Helene: one million dollars from the state's disaster cleanup fund, and discounted fishing and hunting licenses into early January. The support was revealed at Gov. DeSantis' Steinhatchee press conference in front of the popular Sea Hag Marina, whose […]

At his third anti-abortion campaign stop in two days, Gov. Ron DeSantis told Floridians that their default vote on proposed amendments should always be "no" until proven otherwise. Gov. DeSantis' comments follow his opposition to the citizen-led and Democrat-supported Amendments 3 and 4, which would (respectively) legalize recreational marijuana and overturn the state's six-week abortion […]

For the second time in two days, Gov. Ron DeSantis and pro-life doctors hosted a campaign event against Florida's proposed abortion amendment, arguing it will replace licensed physicians with a "clerk at Planned Parenthood" and greenlight abortion for "no reason at all" until the moment of birth. Held at Jacksonville's Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Gov. […]

As Election Day rapidly approaches, U.S. Senate contender Debbie Mucarsel-Powell put Gov. Ron DeSantis on blast for hosting an anti-abortion press conference that she likened to Latin America's "authoritarian regimes." Mucarsel-Powell, who hopes to unseat Republican Sen. Rick Scott, unleashed a two-birds-one-stone attack in a statement to The Floridian where she pointed out that if Scott were […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday hosted a "Doctors Against Amendment 4" press conference where he blasted the "deceptive" pro-abortion measure, urged Floridians to vote no, and had a Catholic archbishop deliver a closing prayer asking God to instill in people a willingness to "sustain" human life. While Gov. DeSantis' strong criticisms of the Amendment, which […]

The group behind Florida's proposed abortion rights amendment filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming First Amendment violations against Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration after a state agency threatened to criminally charge TV stations airing the campaign's allegedly "dangerous" pro-abortion ad. Floridians Protecting Freedom, the group who got the pro-abortion Amendment 4 on the ballot, slammed the state […]

After major hurricanes Helene and Milton barreled into the Florida Gulf Coast less than two weeks apart, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that the state will provide $9.5 million to jumpstart storm recovery. Over half of the investment, $5.5 million, will go to emergency berth repairs with $3.5 million to be used for "immediate security […]

Just days before the November election, Gov. Ron DeSantis through three state agencies is ratcheting up the pressure on a proposed amendment overturning his six-week ban and cementing abortion access in the state constitution. The state departments include the Secretary of State, the Department of Health, and the Agency of Health Care Administration—three powerful Florida […]

Following massive damage left behind by Hurricanes Milton and Helene, Gov. Ron DeSantis swore Friday morning that if dockworkers' resume their strike in January as promised, he will send in the National Guard to keep supplies flowing to disaster-struck areas. This is the first time he's brought up what Florida will do when the East […]