“How Donald Trump’s Alliance with Disney is Helping Him Beat Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – Latest Polls and Analysis”

Donald Trump (76) has two powerful new helpers in the race for his third presidential nomination. Their names are as world famous as his: Mickey Mouse and Scrooge McDuck….

For about two years, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (44), who is his toughest opponent in the fight for the Republican Party crown, has been fighting with the entertainment giant Disney. And the winner, according to polls, is the ex-president with the famous mop of hair.

► Trump caught up a deficit of 14 percent (December) and is now a whopping 13 points ahead. A plus of 27 points!

The trouble with the mouse started in the summer of 2021 – in the midst of the pandemic. DeSantis, who like Trump was against the strict corona measures and had left Florida open, was angry with Disney. Reason: Contrary to its instructions, the company had forced the employees in its amusement parks to be vaccinated.

DeSantis then threatened Disney with fines.

The group (sales in 2022: 65 billion euros, 220,000 employees worldwide) was not impressed and let the new Republican shooting star down again in March 2022. This time it was about DeSanti’s LGBTQ policy.

The governor, who, like his political ex-foster Trump, belongs to the right wing of the Republicans, pushed through a law that forbids speaking about homosexuality and Ghent identification in kindergartens, elementary and middle schools. The law is known as “don’t say gay”.

Disney’s then board member Bob Chapek then wrote in a memo to his LGBTQ employees that the company in Florida would no longer donate money to politicians. He also urged courts to overturn DeSanti’s law.

The governor was furious and threatened to take away an old privilege from Disney. Because company founder Walt Disney bought up around 110 square kilometers of swamp and pasture land for $400 million in the 1960s and promised to create thousands of jobs in Florida, his country was declared a self-governing tax district.

Desperate for revenge, DeSantis has now pushed through that the district will be subordinate to him. But at the end of March it came out: Disney had ensured behind the scenes that it would retain its tax privileges for another 30 years. Florida’s governor was disgraced.

Trump senses his chance

Donald Trump immediately sensed his chance. After becoming the first US president in history to be indicted by a criminal court in New York in March (for paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels), he had already made up ground in a duel with DeSantis. Now he beat the governor.

“DeSantis loves to get his fingers in things — and I’m not just talking about the pudding,” his campaign sneered. Or he gave it one of his famous nicknames and posted on his social network: “DeSanctus was completely destroyed by Disney. Next, Disney will announce they are no longer investing in Florida because of the governor…”

Trump also convinced several Republican congressmen behind the scenes to officially support him in the fight for the presidential candidacy.

Trump is now the Republican strongman again. The latest survey by the business newspaper “Wall Street Journal” showed that he is 51 to 38 percent ahead of DeSantis.