Florida GOP Introduces Bill to Allow DeSantis to Run for President as Governor

A Republican state senator from Florida launched an modification on Tuesday that, ought to the state’s governor Ron DeSantis determine to run for president in 2024, could take away one technical barrier.

A revision was made to the “resign to run” legislation’s phrasing by Florida State Senator Travis Hutson in order that it might not apply to “Individuals in search of the workplace of President or Vice President of america.”

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Presently, a public official in Florida will not be permitted to run for an workplace whose time period of workplace overlaps the particular person’s present place with out first submitting a letter of resignation.

That letter would must be despatched in DeSantis’ occasion 10 days earlier than Florida’s deadline for presidential qualifying firstly of December. Even when DeSantis misplaced the first or common election, his resignation can be remaining and take impact on the day the following president is sworn in, in 2025.

Based on Hutson’s modification, “The amendments made to s. 99.012, Florida Statutes, by this act are supposed to make clear present legislation.”

When then-Republican Governor Charlie Crist was within the race to be John McCain’s working mate for the 2008 GOP nomination, the state overturned the “resign-to-run” rule in 2007. In 2018, Republican former governor Rick Scott, former governor signed laws that reinstated this rule.

If the change is accepted, it might go into impact on July 1. The modification and the whole election legislation measure shall be mentioned and debated on Wednesday, with a vote maybe going down that day or on Thursday.

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Republican Kathleen Passidomo, president of the Florida state Senate, mentioned in late March that she was nonetheless assessing whether or not modifications to the resign-to-run statute had been vital.

DeSantis has mentioned that he gained’t make up his thoughts about working for president in 2024 till after the legislative session concludes in early Might. He’s now on a global enterprise commerce journey in Asia. DeSantis has been to all 4 early presidential major states this yr: Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. He’s on a promotional journey for his new e book and what he calls the “Florida Blueprint.”

“In November, I used to be re-elected. DeSantis advised the Nikkei Asia information group in Tokyo on Tuesday, “We bought an ideal landslide victory. No bulletins till after the legislative session has ended. So merely listen.”

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