He is not yet officially a candidate for the US presidency against Donald Trump, but the rising star of the Republican Party already seems to be campaigning. This week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis traveled to New York State, Pennsylvania and Illinois to talk about one of the favorite topics of conservative voters: tackling crime.
With our correspondent in Miami, David Thomson
With a triple move outside his Florida stronghold in New York and suburban Philadelphia and Chicago, three Democratic-held metropolises hit by a three-year rise in crime, there is no doubt for American commentators, at 44, Ron DeSantis is an increasingly potential candidate for the Republican nomination.
In search of national stature
The Governor of Florida tries to forge a national stature, that of the man of law and order, one of one of the favorite themes of his great rival Donald Trump, declared candidate for the American presidential election for three months.
In Chicago, in front of an audience of police officers, the rising star of the American right denounces policies that he describes as “wokist” and “anti-police”. A strongly repeated message in Philadelphia where a 31-year-old police officer was recently shot. ” If you kill a policeman, you deserve the death penalty “, insists DeSantis.
” A right-wing demagogue »
Unsurprisingly, the welcome from the local authorities was rather hesitant. DeSantis is just ” a right-wing demagogue in a race to the bottom to outdo Donald Trump “Reacted the Democratic mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot.
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