Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida.
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Rob DeSantis fueled the battle between New York Democrats and Florida Republicans at a rally in support of Congressman Lee Zeldin, who is seeking to unseat Kathy Hochul in November.
According to the conservative governor of Florida, his liberal colleague from New York is a “corrupt, extreme left and pro-criminal second part of Andrew Cuomo”, he quoted New York Post.
“Kathy Hochul recently declared that Lee was no longer a New Yorker because she disagrees with his radical policies. Hochul demanded that Lee get on a bus and move to Florida,” DeSantis said in a fundraising speech yesterday.
“People are fleeing a place where politicians like Hochul attack the wallets, safety, freedom and education of children of the very people he is supposed to represent,” DeSantis added in the message.
In response, Jerrel Harvey, Hochul Campaign Spokesperson, He stated: “It is not surprising to see Zeldin following in the footsteps of the Republican standard-bearer for extremism and attacks on fundamental rights.”
At the end of August, on the eve of a special election in the Hudson Valley for the Capitol (NY-19), Hochul opened that controversy by publicly stating: Donald “Trump, (Lee) Zeldin and (Marc) Molinaro: Just get on a bus and go to Florida where you belong. OKAY? Get out of here. Because they do not represent our values”.
“We are fighting for democracy. We are fighting to return the government to the people and out of the hands of dictators.” Hochul said at an event in Kingston (NY), although ironically his speech was more autocratic than inclusive.
“Wow @KathyHochul. You’re losing consciousness, ma’am. I will not accept your psycho request to leave New York.“, Zeldin replied on Twitter that same night.
Days later, Molinaro, a former candidate for governor of New York, took up criticism of Hochul once more: “Telling people that they are not welcome in the homes, communities, families that they helped build is shameful.”
In the state of New York, the Democrats are a resounding majority in a proportion of 7 to 1 once morest the republicans in terms of registered voters.
Lawyer Hochul, a former congresswoman who became the first woman governor of NY in 2021 and who in the past defined herself as an “independent Democrat”, is leading the polls for the upcoming elections once morest the Republican challenger, Representative Zeldin (NY-1). It would be the first time that a woman wins the governorship, since Hochul came to office following the scandalous resignation for sexual harassment of Cuomo, of whom she was lieutenant governor.
DeSantis and Hochul are starring in an interregional controversy that is not new and that gained strength during the pandemic. Miami-Dade has been garnering particular interest from New Yorkers in recent years. A local analyst said as early as 2019 that the fiscal problems of New York had been as “positive” for Florida as the socialist government of Venezuela, citing the thousands of emigrants from that country who have fled to that region.
Since then, with the pandemic, the exodus has increased: many New Yorkers have apparently moved to Florida fleeing high taxes and insecurity.
After leaving the presidency in January 2021, Trump and his children did not return to New York, but progressively moved to Florida. In June 2021 the Republican Miami Mayor Francis Suarezthrew a mass invitation to New Yorkers to move to their city if they want “better quality of life.”
