For DeSantis, the pandemic is no longer a matter of public health. Instead, it has become a vehicle for harnessing populist passion — not only against President Biden, but also against DeSantis’s strongest Republican rival as well: former President Trump.
about catching COVID, and nearly half go so far as to say the pandemic is “over” in the U.S. — numbers that have been falling and rising, respectively, for more than a year.showed that fewer Americans named the coronavirus as their most important voting issue than any of the other nine choices provided. Barring some drastic new development, it’s hard to imagine COVID packing a stronger political punch in 2024 than in the past.
DeSantis speaks about his new book,"The Courage to Be Free," in the Air Force One Pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, March 5, Simi Valley, Calif. In that sense, DeSantis’s pandemic pitch is really just his overall message in miniature. “Look at our. Experts hated that. Well, they were wrong about COVID,” Weigel continued, paraphrasing DeSantis. “Sometimes people think, ‘Can he just talk about COVID forever?’ But it’s more than COVID. It’s ‘every time I’m tested, I disagree with the establishment — and I’m right.’”
During his Reagan Library speech, the governor noted that while “California tourism declined by 22%” and tourism for “New York City declined 43%” from 2019 to 2021, Florida actually “set a record for domestic tourism” during the same period, accounting for “almost 45% of our nation’s total tourism from foreign countries.”
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