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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida's governor just can't seem to get it right on coronavirus
If there's a face of the botched handling of coronavirus in the United States -- other than President Donald Trump, of course -- it's that of Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The Sunshine State's seven-day average of cases is at more than 11,000, according to The New York Times. More than 5,000 people have died because of the virus in Florida.
Even Trump, forever downplaying the severity of the coronavirus, acknowledged that Florida is not in good shape.
"I say flames, we'll put out the flames," Trump told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace over the weekend. "And we'll put out in some cases just burning embers. We also have burning embers. We have embers and we do have flames. Florida became more flame like, but it's -- it's going to be under control.
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(298,021 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)expect from a looser.
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(17,757 posts)but furthering his political career. He sees himself as a future president. It seems as if that too will fail because he has hitched his political car to Trump's train, and that train is going off the trestle. Hopefully the people of my state will grasp what it means to hand the Republicans power for a decade or so and revert back to our Democratic roots.
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(18,133 posts)We need a respite from the Wisconsin winters, but we don't want to go anywhere that's not safe.