Today was our presidential primary. From CNN, an example of how democracy is supposed to work from the party that says its sacred mission is to preserve our democracy:
And a baffling result from the Party of Tyranny (TM):
How does Nikki Haley, who has never tried to do anything for Florida, get more votes than Ron DeSantis, who has worked hard (and, if we believe the meager net worth on his financial statements, honestly) on behalf of Floridians for about 10 years (first in Congress, then as governor)?
I went to the local branch of the Palm Beach County public library system to vote today. The parking lot was packed at 1:45 pm and I took this as a sign of citizen engagement. It turned out, however, that the cars were parked at the library because people were using the library part of the library (despite CNN and NYT informing us that books are banned in Florida). Voting was in a community room and there were booths sufficient to accommodate more than 20 voters in parallel. The three poll workers told me that I was Voter #25… for the day. I’m grateful for the work that Ron DeSantis has done in his job as our governor, so I put in a thank-you vote.
For Irish readers, a snapshot from Sunday evening’s St. Patrick’s Day block party in our MacArthur Foundation-created development (Abacoa):
A week earlier, Abacoa hosted the Jupiter Irish Fest, complete with about 25 performers from the local Irish Dance school.
Ron DeSantis got the NeverTrump vote.
Nikki Haley got the NeverRepublican vote.
The latter group is much larger than the former.
Interesting. According to a Newsweek feed I see whenever I open Bing – The Donald “suffered a brutal primary vote against him” — to it is good to see the details.
I give you credit for packing up from Maskachusetts and figuring out the Florida voting system. Thank you for doing your civic duty!
Naive observers who had read of their respective withdrawals might be surprised that Haley and DeSantis were still choices. Did they just stop spending money on campaigning, keeping their candidacies running in case the Donald should fall out of a high window, or whatever, before the convention?
Desantis just solved homeless problem.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article286904000.html