Gov. Ron DeSantis throws his hat to supporters at a campaign event in Coconut Creek, Fla., Nov. 4, 2022.
While DeSantis won reelection handily, many other Republican candidates for governor who raised attacks on schools — against drag queen story hours, for example, or books that examine white privilege — went down in defeat, including in Kansas, Michigan, Arizona and Wisconsin. DeSantis, too, has framed his opposition to progressive values as an attempt to give parents control over what their children are taught.
“The culture war issues are most potent among Republican primary voters, but that doesn’t mean that an education message can’t be effective with independent voters or the electorate as a whole,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, who worked for DeSantis during his first governor’s race in 2018. Yet, the political power of opposition to critical race theory — which became a grab bag for conservative complaints about the teaching of American history and racial inequality — largely petered out by last year’s midterm general elections. A September polling memo by the Republican National Committee warned candidates that “focusing on CRT and masks excites the GOP base, but parental rights and quality education drive independents.
“The big lesson of 2022 is that Republicans didn’t have an economic agenda,” Anzalone said. “All they talked about was incredibly extreme positions, like on abortion and guns. Will they also talk about only extreme positions on these other things?” Republicans point to a May 2022 survey for the American Federation of Teachers union showing that voters in battleground states had slightly more confidence in Republicans than in Democrats, 39% to 38%, to handle education issues.
ANTI-education issues, you mean
Who do you want ... Trump or Desantis ... ?
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