{"id":10340,"date":"2023-04-02T15:19:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T15:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10340"},"modified":"2023-04-02T15:19:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T15:19:29","slug":"ron-desantis-has-a-florida-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10340","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis has a Florida problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;on one cultural issue that did hurt Republicans in the midterm elections \u2014 abortion \u2014 DeSantis is going even further to the right, preparing to sign a bill&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/03\/07\/florida-abortion-ban-6-week-bills-00085865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">banning the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy<\/a>, with exceptions for rape and incest if victims offer proof of a crime.<br>\u201cWow,\u201d said Amy Tarkanian, a former chair of the Republican Party in Nevada, where DeSantis traveled over the weekend. \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t even know they\u2019re pregnant at six weeks. I\u2019m pro-life, but that\u2019s pretty extreme.\u201d&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;\u201cIf you\u2019re running for president, you ain\u2019t got no choice,\u201d said Jason Roe, a former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party and adviser to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign. \u201cOn the abortion issue, if you don\u2019t go as far right as the oxygen will allow you to go, it\u2019s a vulnerability in a Republican primary. That\u2019s just life.\u201d&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/03\/16\/ron-desantis-florida-problem-2024-gop-primary-00087326\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/03\/16\/ron-desantis-florida-problem-2024-gop-primary-00087326<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;on one cultural issue that did hurt Republicans in the midterm elections \u2014 abortion \u2014 DeSantis is going even further to the right, preparing to sign a bill banning the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for rape and incest if victims offer proof of a crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow,\u201d said Amy Tarkanian, a former chair of the Republican Party in Nevada, where DeSantis traveled over the weekend. \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t even know they\u2019re pregnant at six weeks. I\u2019m pro-life, but that\u2019s pretty extreme.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cIf you\u2019re running for president, you ain\u2019t got no choice,\u201d said Jason Roe, a former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party and adviser to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign. \u201cOn the abortion issue, if you don\u2019t go as far right as the oxygen will allow you to go, it\u2019s a vulnerability in a Republican primary. That\u2019s just life.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,202,1281,372,471,509,1723,506],"class_list":["post-10340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-culture","tag-desantis","tag-election","tag-florida","tag-politics","tag-rape","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10341,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions\/10341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}