pjmedia.com By Scott Pinsker
Donald Trump is a proud Floridian. So is his chief of staff, Susie Wiles. As well as his nominee for secretary of state, Marco Rubio. Along with his nominee for attorney general, Matt Gaetz. And don’t forget Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), who’ll serve as Trump’s national security advisor.
And that’s not all: Floridians James Blair and Taylor Budowich will be moving to D.C. too.
(Florida’s other senator, Rick Scott, was nearly named Senate Majority Leader, but he came in third, losing to Sen. John Coryn and Sen. John Thune.)
Florida, Florida, Florida! All the White House needs are some orange trees and a few pink flamingoes, and it could double as the Sunshine State.
Notably absent from the West Wing’s Florida delegation is sitting governor Ron DeSantis, who’ll be looking for a new line of work in 2026. (Florida limits governors to two terms.) Had he not angered MAGA Nation by challenging Trump for the presidential nomination, Gov. DeSantis could’ve easily been added to the list.
Of course, now that Susie Wiles is firmly in charge of the West Wing, it seems unlikely DeSantis would ever be a welcome addition to a Trump administration.
Still, even without DeSantis, that’s an awful lot of Florida-based talent coming to the capital. The Sunshine State is overrepresented. But there’s a method to Trump’s Florida fixation:
Florida is the canary in the coal mine for political trends.
Back in the early 2000s, Florida was the ultimate swing state. On the wings of angels (and with a little bit of help from a semi-dangling chad), whoever won Florida would win the presidential election — culminating in 2000 with the never-ending ballot battles between Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Ever since then, Florida has been a decade or so ahead of national trends: Hispanics and Latino voters began breaking for GOP candidates in Florida first. Out of demographic necessity, the state Republican Party went from lily-white to multiethnic. And their outreach worked: Florida Republicans learned how to communicate with Spanish-speaking immigrants, day laborers, and hard-working minorities — who were much more concerned with skyrocketing inflation and the rise in violent crime than being lectured by liberals on which pronoun to use.
These minority voters became charter members of our new Republican bloc.
The United States of America has countless advantages over other countries and regions. From our vast natural resources to a pair of oceans shielding us from our enemies, there’s no nation on earth with more God-given gifts. And one of our greatest (and most underrated) blessings is the demographics of our immigrants…
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