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Desantis will compete with Florida Republicans in trying to get closer to Trump

Tallahassee, Fla. (AP) – With an open presidential primary in 2028, Ron Desantis, the government of Florida, launches an offensive to win supporters of the Republican leader he dared to challenge in the last elections. And he does this by holding on to the most prominent issue of President Donald Trump – immigration.

The problem for Desantis is that the Republicans of his own state think they know Trump better.

Last week, the legislators ordered the legislators to adopt a series of border -related proposals that he was driving, including criminal charges for officers if they have not handled immigration measures and limitations and limitations for people who send money to families outside the US

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Within a few minutes after the session, the legislators threw the proposals from the governor and called their own special session. They ignored many of his requests and presented their own bill that much of the power of Desantis on immigration enforcement handed over to the agricultural commissioner of the State. Legislers The title The Tackling and reforming illegal migration policy, or Trump, ACT.

The struggle has exposed the struggles of the term limited governor to regain the power he lost in his first white house run while preparing for a potential second attempt.

After the transformation of Florida led from a multi-year Swing-State to someone who votes solid Republican, Desantis gambles on his sense of the voters of his state, who have delivered a second term with a huge 19-point marge. But he has difficulty catching Aura he had before he entered against Trump – and did not help his relative lack of relationships with legislators.

“This is a relationship company,” said Republican political consultant Jamie Miller. “And he’s not good at the relationship.”

The Desantis office did not respond to a request for comments.

A cold gets stuck in the sunshine state

In 2023, when Desantis defied the ice -cold Iowa winter to run the president – and took some loyal legislators to be campaigning – he sold himself to voters as a brash, daring executive, a more effective version of Trump. And he could point out the results, thanks to the legislative power of Florida.

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For six years, Desantis kept legislators in accordance with its veto pen. But while the chances of Desantis faded on the way to an eruption loss in the Caucuses of Iowa, the presidential shine was released.

In a sign that Desantis did not provide a threat to Trump, the Republican Party of Florida voted in September 2023 not to demand participants in the presidential primary of the State of 2024 to support the final candidate, which ensured that Trump did not support Desantis Should promise Desantis when the two were locked up in a bitter campaign.

Desantis would never win the national traction that had demonstrated his campaign to demonstrate, and would be out of the race within a week after the Iowa caucuses. Despite a year of Trump’s accusations, they achieved a public approach last May, when Desantis agreed to convene his top donors to raise money for Trump.

“Ron, I think it’s great that you are back,” Trump told the donors during a conference call when they gathered in a hotel in Fort Lauderdale, and picked up $ 3 million a day for the Trump campaign.

By December, Desantis had taken its way into the discussion for Trump’s Minister of Defense when Pete Hegseeth encountered the public resistance. Hegseeth was eventually confirmed.

Desantis has never been familiar with the backlapping and the favorable side of politics, some of which of his most influential supporters say that some legislators can rub in the wrong way. Even among his admirers, Desantis is known for having little patience to smear the wheels of the government – shake hands and make phone calls. In the meantime, Trump is known for his personal touch, which legislators often call for their input and invite the current and potential allies to his Mar-A-Lago estate or his other properties.

And now the attitude of the governor costs him, some Capitol Watchers say.

Last month, when Desantis announced that he called legislators in a special session, Hus speaker Daniel Perez told the Associated Press that the legislative power was ‘blind’.

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“I called him right away,” said Perez. “He didn’t answer. He didn’t call me back. “

Senator Randy Fine is a former ally of the Governor who later ended Trump into the Primary 2024. The president returned after his victory by endorsing Fine in a Republican Primary for the chair of the American house that was previously held by Mike Waltz, who was chosen as a national security adviser. Last week Fine won the competition with more than 80% of the votes and is on its way to win the chair in April, despite the fact that he does not live in the district that he hopes to represent.

Fine compared his reward with the treatment of legislators who were loyal to Desantis – and are now being attacked as ‘only republicans in name’.

“I was loyal. I’m going to the congress. They were loyal. They are called Rinos who want amnesty, “said Fine. “There are female members of the legislative power who went to Iowa a year ago and walked through the snow to help him and was framed. And now it is a year later Rinos who want amnesty? I think it is difficult to describe the feeling of betrayal. ‘

Desantis and the legislative power fight for those who are closer to Trump

Both parties of the argument about Florida’s immigration struggle say that they best record Trump’s desires.

The governor said that the measure of the legislative power is a ‘betrayal’ of conservative voters and it is a naming by the president a ‘wrong name’.

“President Trump has come very strongly about enforcement of immigration. He wants to solve this problem once and for all. The bill they made is more window dressing, “said Desantis in a video he placed on X. The transfer of his power to the agricultural commissioner, he said, would be if the “fox that managed to lead the chicken coop”, which implies keep hiring immigrants who are illegal in the country.

But legislators say they have Trump’s blessing. The Bill Sponsor, the speaker of the Florida house and the Senator of the State expects to be sent to the congress on Monday to visit the White House to celebrate NHL’s defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers.

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“The whole goal of this bill is to help President Trump to do his work,” said Republican State Senator Joe Gruters, a bill sponsor and Trump bondmate. He said that Stephen Miller, a senior adviser from the president and the immigration-hard-liner, gave legislators ‘technical guidance’ and they made changes to the bill ‘to ensure that we do everything the President’s team wants’.

Desantis has picked up some support along the way. US Rep. Byron Donalds, an important Trump allegon who could run to replace the term limited Desantis next year, said that his own relationship with the Governor “was frayed” when Donald’s Trump supported two years ago. But last week Donalds said in a podcast that the governor was ‘correct’ that he had to have enforcement powers about immigration.

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, led on social media to emphasize Desantis’s proposals. The Roberts think tank leads drawn up Project 2025, the blueprint for a hard turn in the US government and the society that has inspired a number of Trump actions.

“This is not the moment for weakened proposals,” Roberts placed on X, giving Desantis a “Bravo”.

Neither the president nor the White House has publicly expressed an opinion. The White House did not respond to a request for comments for this story.

For now, Desantis seems to be winning the war on social media and conservative air waves, Miller said, the political consultant.

“But we all know that that microphone can be taken away with one tweet,” he said.

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Gomez Licon reported from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Associated Press writer Thomas Beaumont in the Moines, Iowa, has contributed to this report.

Payne is a member of the Corps for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a non -profit National Service Program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

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