How DeSantis’ struggles in presidential race could dim his clout with Florida Legislature
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How DeSantis’ struggles in presidential race could dim his clout with Florida Legislature

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Ron DeSantis on the campaign trail, how much influence will he have on the 2024 session? “It’s not like you can expect to see a whole bunch of liberal stuff coming out of the Florida House and Senate anytime soon,” Binder said. ‘Governor’s game’ Lars Hafner, a political analyst and former Democrat who served 12 years in the Florida House, said that DeSantis’ struggles in his presidential campaign will result in the Legislature “regrasping their power.” “The House speaker and Senate president will become more powerful than they have over the last few years because they’re not going to play the governor’s game as much,” he said. Credit: Florida House of Representatives “In the last few years, people thinking that DeSantis was going to become president — they were all jockeying for their own futures, and now that it doesn’t look so promising I think that you’re going to see them really retain power, and it will be a very different type of Legislature, even though they’re still in the supermajority.” Some Florida Republican lawmakers have already began distancing themselves from the governor as he has struggled against Trump, at least when it comes to supporting his presidential ambitions. I don’t know if that’s going to continue, but there’s nothing that happened that’s going to give the governor any additional leverage.” The 2023 legislative session saw a flood of conservative legislative proposals get signed into law, including a six-week abortion ban, the anti-immigration measure, as well as bills lowering the threshold for imposing the death penalty and making it illegal for state and local investment funds to consider the environmental, social, and governance stances that companies’ support.

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