Republicans insist deep red Florida will be a lock for the GOP presidential nominee next year, but could it help re-elect President Joe Biden just the same?
This spring, the governor and the Republican supermajority in Tallahassee served up an unsparingly red-meat legislative menu for the base.
Those entrées included a six-week abortion ban, repeal of a state permit requirement to carry a concealed firearm and expansion of a parental rights in education bill dubbed by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law. Then there is the plethora of policies critics say are efforts to curtail academic freedom in universities, ban from books from K-12 classroom shelves and end diversity programs.