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Ron DeSantis is running for president. He’s already been campaigning in must-win Wisconsin. [1]
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Date: 2023-05-25
Wisconsin is exactly the kind of state that can shut the door on a DeSantis bid for the presidency.
DeSantis campaigned for Tim Michels, the GOP candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 2022. Michels lost in a 3-point Wisconsin landslide.
DeSantis’ pitch was, essentially, that the GOP could turn Wisconsin into the Florida of the North. "Everything we've done in Florida, you will be able to do in Wisconsin and then some,” said DeSantis. That didn’t sell.
This spring, on April 4, Wisconsinites voted for a Supreme Court justice—Janet Protasiewicz—as an embrace of her belief in reproductive freedom.
Nine days later, DeSantis signed a six-week ban on abortion in Florida.
Want freedom? Beat DeSantis.
The other central issue in the April 4 Supreme Court race was democracy—the fight against voter suppression, against election overturning, and against gerrymandered maps.
Rigging maps and attacking voter freedoms has been another DeSantis hallmark.
Instead of hiring teachers, DeSantis bans books in schools. Instead of ensuring that kids know they’re valued and included, he supports ripping them from their families. Instead of building community, he divides. Sounds like Scott Walker. Who we beat.
And who really benefits from DeSantis’ policies? Surprise, surprise—it’s the ultra-wealthy special-interest donors who flood him with cash. The folks who’d profit from privatizing Social Security and Medicare—which DeSantis also supports.
Earlier this month, Ron DeSantis traveled to Marathon County, Wisconsin to speak at a Republican Party event, harping on the “woke mind virus,” “woke ideology,” and the “woke mob” and pushing extremism.
As I noted at the time, in Wisconsin, that cheese curd don’t squeak.
The extremist Florida blueprint doomed Scott Walker in 2018. Donald Trump failed with it in Wisconsin in 2020. Tim Michels failed with it in 2022. And Dan Kelly lost twice attempting to use it in 2020 and 2023.
But if we want to ensure that a DeSantis nomination would lead to a DeSantis loss, we have to do what we did in Wisconsin in 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2023: organize everywhere, statewide, all the time, year-round.
It’s impossible to win the White House without winning Wisconsin. DeSantis knows this, Trump knows this, and President Biden certainly knows this. But right now, the GOP is too busy fighting its primary civil war to actually build an organizing program here.
We need to get out ahead. Every single week from now until the Republican National Convention next summer is vital in our strategy to fight back. We’re hiring now. And to keep building our team, we need monthly support.
x JOBS: The @WisDems is gearing up for the next big fight, and we need *you* to join us. We’re hiring for multiple roles because year-round investments in our communities win! Read on, retweet to help us spread the word, and share with someone you know who’d be perfect for the job. — Ben Wikler (@benwikler) May 18, 2023
We need 59 new monthly donors in the next 24 hours to ensure that we’re ready to reject DeSantis—if he becomes the nominee—and reelect President Biden.
Are you in? Even $1, $5, $10 a month makes a huge difference.
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