The governor of Florida and presidential candidate, Ron DeSantis, began his electoral campaign in Iowa on Tuesday, where he warned of the collapse of the border with Mexico, charged against illegal immigration and stressed his commitment to the “combat” to the “sanctuary cities”. in United States.
“The border is collapsed. Millions of illegal immigrants are coming in, many criminals and terrorists and drug cartels and fentanyl,” DeSantis warned at the formal start of his campaign for the 2024 Republican Party primaries.
“We are a sovereign nation and our border must be respected,” he told about 500 people in the auditorium of an evangelical Christian church in suburban Des Moines, where banners proclaimed his campaign slogan “Great American Come Back.”
The Republican governor assured that, if he reaches the White House, he will restore national sovereignty and declare a “national emergency for the border,” in addition to holding Mexican drug cartels responsible for the deaths of Americans.
He reviewed his achievements as governor of Florida to show with “realities and facts” his service record and ability to assume the Presidency of the nation.
In an internal key, he referred to his merciless battle against indoctrination in school education, “gender ideology” and the denunciation of those teachers who confuse children by telling them that they may have been born in the wrong body, or that they force them to pronounce on these issues.
He was emphatic in defending the rights of parents in the education of their children and the prohibition of sex change operations on minors.
In this context, he went further by saying that those doctors who perform this type of operation will not only “lose their license, but they will go to jail”, words that were greatly applauded by the attendees.
He blamed America’s decline in large part on a “new form of the left that infects our society and values with a ‘woke’ (progressive) ideology” that indoctrinates schools and universities.
DeSantis assured that “at the end of the day, leadership is not about making entertainment or making a brand, but about results,” in a possible allusion to former President Donald Trump, currently the favorite in the Republican primary process.
The former president will visit Iowa on Wednesday and will hold an interview with radio host Simon Conway. And on Thursday he will attend a rally in a Des Moines suburb to close out the day with a town hall hosted by conservative Fox News host Sean Hannity.
This electoral act will be followed by another eleven events in as many cities in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, all of them early voting states, which his campaign has announced as “Our Great American Comeback Tour” (Our great return tour To united states) .
Attacked for months by Trump, DeSantis did not continue in Iowa the open hostilities against the one who was his ally and whom he criticized last Wednesday, when he announced his candidacy in a troubled chat with the American businessman Elon Musk on Twitter, which began delayed due to technical failures.
The Floridian closed his speech with a request for support for his aspiration to the Presidency with the warning that “we must look forward, not back, and have the strength to win.”
“If it is a referendum on Biden – he assured – we will win the elections.”
“There will be no excuses. I will do what I have to do in my job. There is a lot of work to do, I know, but I am asking you to join me in this mission, to lead the country out of its decline,” she said.
With information from EFE
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