
Ron landing. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty images
Landing is the only one who declared their desire to participate in the Republican elections, who has quite tangible chances of defeating Trump. In ideological and political positions, both politicians are quite close, only behind the landing there is no loop of criminal charges and high -profile public scandals. But polls show that while the former president is ahead of the Governor of Florida in the rating of more than doubled. Is there any chances to reduce the gap, and what he will do for this, the American Pavel Sharikov tells the “New-Europe” in his regular heading.
At the end of May, the long -awaited introduction of Governor of Florida Ron landing into an American presidential race took place . Rumors that one of the most popular conservatives can compete with Donald Trump on republican primaries have been going on for a long time - and finally they were confirmed.
The first performance of landing as a candidate was carried out in the voice chat of Twitter with the participation of Ilon Mask himself. Landing organized stream and online meetings with voters, which in itself became a rather large experiment for conservative republicans. But there were no technical failures: after the start of the broadcast, Twitter servers were overloaded, and the land of the landing was constantly breaking off. As a result, the second part of the broadcast had to be transferred to another page. Nevertheless, about half a million people joined to listen to landing on Twitter. For comparison: the same half a million views from Biden’s election video were gained only in a month.
The landing is considered the main opponent of Trump in many ways because when a year ago the last one was drawn into the next trial,
The landing was approaching and even almost ahead of Trump on measurements of public opinion. True, today the former president is still leading with more than two times a margin , having 56% of support against 25% of the governor of Florida. Other Republican candidates, who declared their participation in the campaign, including the most popular Nikki Haley and Vakek, do not gain 5% support. In addition, a few days before joining the landing race, another Republican, Senator from South Carolina Tim Scott, also stated his nomination. However - in comparison with the interest of the public in the nomination of landing - we can say that no one noticed the announcement of Scott.
The experience of previous election campaigns shows that 30% of the gap between Trump and landing is not a disaster, and the lag may well be reduced for the remaining republican primaries for eight months. In addition, surveys admit that if the landing is still a candidate, he has a chance to get ahead of Biden by the results of voting by 1-2%. Such indicators can persuade part of the republican establishment and sponsors of the party in favor of the governor of Florida at the primaries stage and within the framework of the election campaign itself.
In the United States, the landing “ Maga Without the Mess ” was entrenched in the USA. Maga refers to Donald Trump’s election slogan - “Make America Great Again” - and the end of the phrase (“without a mess”) demonstrates the key difference between Trump and landing as candidates from the Republicans. Behind the latter there are no large public scandals, and even more so the criminal charges made. At the same time, in ideological terms, the billionaire and governor of Florida are quite close to each other.
The landing has several objective advantages. Since the democrats will probably become Joseph Biden , it is extremely important that the landing is quite young. He is 44 years old, which is noticeably less than Trump, as well as many other noticeable republicans.
In addition, landing has a rich history of participation and victory in the elections. In 2022, he was re -elected to the post of governor of Florida, and before that he was elected twice in the House of Representatives from this state. In 2016, he even ran for the released place of Senator Marco Rubio from Florida, when he put up his candidacy for the position of president. However, when Rubio got off the presidential race, landing lifted his candidacy from the senator’s elections and won the election to the House of Representatives.

The election platform of the landing is not yet completely clear. For example, it is not very clear why, during his announcing performance on Twitter, the governor quoted the Constitution many times and demonstrated knowledge of the current American legislation. The landing tried to explain to the republican voters who came to the stream, why Washington seeks to adopt laws governing cryptocurrencies, or what is the difference in powers in relation to migrants between state authorities and the federal government.
Nevertheless, in the introductory video, landing ignored several important subjects. Firstly, he did not say a word about abortion, although a month ago hesigned a law prohibiting the residents of Florida to terminate the pregnancy after the sixth week. The mention of such a law would clearly attract the attention and interest of republican voters.

Another plot, which remained in a strange way beyond the framework of landing, is the confrontation of its main competitor, Donald Trump. Landscape said practically nothing about him. At the same time, Donald Trump himself brought down a wave of rigid criticism on the landing, publishing several provocative videos on Instagram.
However, the general features of the political position of Ron landing are clear from his initiatives in the House of Representatives and as the governor of the state of Florida.
In Congress, landing proved himself as a supporter of the free wearing of weapons. The landing voted for the abolition of the universal health law - the famous Obamacare. In 2015, he became the co -founder of the Cokus of Freedom - a group of ultra -conservative and libertarian congressmen who formed a separate coalition in the House of Representatives; Cocus of Freedom became known for not supporting some republican bills. For example, congressmen did not vote for the republican law, called to replace Obamacare, criticizing it as "too social."
In addition, Ron landing was not supported by any of the bills protecting the rights of the LGBT community, for which he received “ zero ” in the rating of American congressmen, promoting the ideas of equality and protecting human rights.

One of the main plots in the landing campaign, most likely, will be the problem of migration and tightening border control. Florida is one of the first states meeting migrants from Cuba and from other Latin America. Therefore, the problem of protecting borders is extremely priority for landing as governor Florida.
It was on the same basis that landing sharply dispersed the Biden administration. In Washington, they offer various forms of support for migrants, while Florida and other border states advocate tightening measures in relation to illegal immigrants. For example, the landing itself launches a program in Florida, according to which labor migrants will move to other states within the country.
Under the leadership of politicians such as Ron landing, Florida finally loses the status of a “fluctuating” state and becomes strictly republican. As a rule, one of the factors of victory, which experts often focus on is a victory for primaries in their native state. In this regard, Florida will clearly become a field of fierce confrontation between Trump and landing: the former president also ran for this state, where after 2020 he issued an official residence in his estate in Mar-A-Liaz.
So far, judging by the surveys , the majority of the inhabitants of Florida will still prefer Trump. However, this intrigue will finally be resolved only on March 19, 2024 - on this date the primaries of the Republican Party were delivered.