Matt Dixon is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News, based in Florida.
Two years has been a political eternity for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. In 2022, when DeSantis was at his peak political powers and openly flirting with running for president, he used his sway to start the process of remaking local school boards into much more conservative-leaning bodies. During the that year's midterm elections, when DeSantis won re-election by a historic near 20-points, he backed 30 school board candidates, and only five lost.
“You’re going into some of these areas that Republicans have never been competitive in, like the heart of Tampa,” DeSantis told reporters during a Wednesday press conference. “You need to field candidates and run them all the way across the board.” Some of the race were unquestionably in Democratic-leaning counties, but DeSantis-backed candidates also lost in traditional conservative strongholds like Indian River, Sarasota, and Flagler counties, all of which Donald Trump carried easily in 2020.
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