Why Trump chose Florida to launch his reelection bid
The Sunshine State has played host to many a Trump rally over the last four years, but nothing’s come close to what we just saw in Orlando.
20,000 Floridians and other patriotic Americans were just witness to 2020’s “coming down the escalator” moment, the beginning of a journey every bit as historic as the President’s establishment-crushing, insurgent campaign that began four years ago.
The honor is not Florida’s by coincidence. For much of the year, our beautiful state is Donald Trump’s home as well as ours, and you can tell he’s much more at ease here than he is cooped up in Washington, DC, surrounded by liberal swamp creatures.
The media try to distort that image and portray Donald Trump as some elite interloper with whom no one here connects. In reality, Florida has always been a quintessential part of the MAGA movement, and not without reason.
Even in 2015 and 2016, when the chattering class didn’t give Trump an ice cube’s chance in the Everglades to win the GOP nomination let alone the presidency, more and more Floridians recognized the promise the original MAGA campaign offered.
It wasn’t until November 8, 2016, that those naysayers began to understand just how wrong they were about the Sunshine State. When those results began to roll in, showing a decisive victory significantly wider than the one Barack Obama won here in 2012, the entire illusion of Hillary Clinton’s invincibility evaporated.
Florida has been well rewarded for its confidence in Donald Trump. Under his leadership, our employment rate is just 3.4 percent, and the 500,000 new jobs created here since Election Day 2016 highlight the miracle with which we and the rest of America have been blessed.
Florida is simply one place that knows there’s too much at stake to put that success at risk, and we will be in a very unique position to ensure that America does not take a step back in time to the era of low expectations and pitiful economic results.
Florida as the lynchpin of presidential elections is, by this point, deeply ingrained in the American psyche. The Trump campaign is going to need a fire wall here in Florida more than anywhere in America.
Personally, I think Donald Trump is going to expand on his margin here next year. The 2018 election, where Floridians thwarted the hand-picked candidate of George Soros, Andrew Gillum, from taking control and the governor’s mansion, certainly would indicate that. And the Trump backed Ron DeSantis is exceeding expectations of even his strongest supporters and has the political and administrative strength of a Cat 5 hurricane.
But the President cannot make that happen on his own. If you want to secure the leaps and bounds we’ve made as a state and as a country over the last two and a half years — and show whichever stooge the Democrats nominate that Florida is MAGA country — we must get moving now. We need volunteers and supporters to get involved early and get their friends and family involved early too.
President Trump chose Florida to launch his reelection bid here because he knew he could count on us to deliver for him. If Donald Trump knows how to do one thing, its set up a showdown with his opponents. That’s what he did Tuesday in Orlando, making it clear he will fight and fight hard for the votes of all Floridians.
The showdown is set. It’s one Floridians are ready goes President Trump’s — and America’s — way.
Florida as the lynchpin of presidential elections is, by this point, deeply ingrained in the American psyche.