If reelected Nov. 8, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said he’ll fix Florida’s property insurance crisis, make teacher salary hikes a permanent component of the education budget, eliminate sales taxes on “baby items” and pet food, and lobby lawmakers to amend a state statute that requires death sentences for convicted murders be handed down only by unanimous jury decision.
But one thing DeSantis did not do during his first, and only, gubernatorial debate with challenger Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) in Fort Pierce’s Sunshine Theater on Aug. 24 was commit to serve all four years of a second term in Tallahassee.
Throughout the 13-question, one-hour debate, Crist—a three-term Congressional representative who served as Florida’s Republican governor in 2007-11 before changing parties in 2012—persistently claimed DeSantis will run for president in 2024….