Governor of Florida Ron DeSantishas officially been a candidate for the White House since Wednesday after he announced his candidacy for the Republican Party primary in front of the Federal Election Commission, in which his former mentor, the former president Donald Trump (2017-2021), is the favorite.

A few hours after the candidacy was submitted, the former president congratulated him and indicated that “hope you get the full experience of Marxist attackcommunists and crazy radical left countries,” without which, he says, he will never know what he is doing.

DeSantis, sixth Republican politician to sign up for the primaryis in second place in the polls, but more than 30 points behind Trump, who helped him win the Florida gubernatorial election, but is now his great detractor, although not the only former president, as the president rightly predicted.

This Wednesday, a hundred protesters visited part of Brickell Avenue in Miami to express their disagreement with anyone. called “fascist” and “racist”. and I will concentrate in the hotel, where donors and supporters of the governor have gathered.

The demonstrators carried banners with slogans such as “The Good People of Florida Revolt Against DeSantis”“We are against fascism”, “Never DeSantis” or “DeSantis against the working class” and other rainbow flags of the LGTBQ+ community.

Declared the 44-year-old DeSantis an enemy of leftist ideologies in a cover letter for this campaign. signed a series of ultra-conservative measures which were approved at the last session of the state congress by a majority of Republicans.

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The official announcement of his candidacy was made this afternoon in a Twitter conversation with businessman Elon Muskwho publicly supported him for months as an ideal candidate to meet the current president, Democrat Joe Biden, who will seek re-election in 2024.

“DeSantis has spent his entire career hurting Floridians. just to conquer the MAGA base” (that’s how the movement founded by Trump is known), said Florida Democratic Party chairman Nikki Fried.

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The Florida governor is the sixth candidate in the Republican primary, with more than a year left to go. Rest former president donald trumpwhich in November 2022 was the first to formalize its desire to return to the White House and former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley.

In addition to them, they announced that they will compete in the main process of this party. Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinsonbusinessman Vivek Ramaswami and African-American Senator Tim Scott.

After learning on Tuesday that DeSantis would announce his presidential aspirations, Haley’s campaign released a television ad in which he accused the Florida governor of being an “echo” of former President Trumpwhich, as shown in the video with images of both, copies even in gestures.

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The feud between Trump and DeSantis in front of allies and today’s rivals has led the We the People Convention to call on both join forces in one candidacy for 2024instead of “tearing each other apart over the next 12 months” as one paid advertisement put it.

But there has been no sign that something like this could happen so far, given the almost daily attacks that the former president maintains on his Pravda social network, where I usually use the nickname “DeSanctimonius” a play on words with the last name of the governor of Florida and the word “prude” in English.

On Tuesday, Trump’s campaign staff asked him to refrain from running in the primary “for the good of the Republican Party and the nation.”

But on the march to 2024, the governor comes out with a presentation letter of laws passed during his second term as governor, after achieve re-election last year with historical figures and secure an “overwhelming majority” in both houses of the State Legislature.

DeSantis pushes ultra-conservative agenda in Florida with laws further restricting abortion, banning gender identity and sexual orientation in schools, and repealing racial diversity programs at public universities, and an upcoming immigration rule that is one of the toughest in the United States. (EFE)