“Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Takes Strong Stance Against LGBT Education in Schools”

With our correspondent in Miami, David Thomson

Ron DeSantis takes the stage accompanied by his wife Casey, a former local TV presenter. With their three children, the couple cultivates a Kennedy image: a model American family. They are young, beautiful, powerful, but also very conservative. His first speech as a candidate for the Republican nomination in Iowa, DeSantis, a devout Christian, gives it in a church.

And the governor of Florida insists on one of his favorite themes: the cultural battle in the schools: “Thehe role of our schools is to educate, not indoctrinate! It’s not normal for a teacher to tell his students that maybe they weren’t born in the right body or that they can adopt the gender of their choice! »

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In his Florida stronghold, DeSantis turned classrooms into a political battleground as the ultra-conservative governor banned teachers from discussing sexual orientation with their students. It also allowed parents to remove dozens of books dealing with LGBT issues, accused of pornography, from school libraries.

This theme electrifies Republican voters and allows him to distinguish himself from his great rival whom he never names, Donald Trump, who largely dominates the polls with nearly 30% in advance and who will also be in the Iowa.