WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is on the cover of the latest June 12 issue of “Time” magazine.
The magazine, which has been running since 1923, published a story on their website about DeSantis titled “The DeSantis Project.”
The magazine’s cover features an illustration of the governor peeling an orange with the words “What Ron DeSantis Means for America.”
The article describes what most Florida residents already know about the current political climate in Florida, presenting to a national audience what the governor calls the “Florida Plan.”
“By operationalizing the culture war into a set of concrete policies, DeSantis has transformed the nation’s third-most populous state,” the “Time” article said. “What was once the subject of jokes about alligators and retirees is now the free state of Florida with a southern twist, where men are men, the wake is broken and business is booming – 1,200 new arrivals clean residents every day.”
All of this comes as several media outlets reported Thursday that DeSantis will finally announce his presidential bid next week.
Despite the governor’s popularity among Florida Republicans, the cover of “Time” questions whether DeSantis’ “antisocial ways” will be an obstacle to him winning the Republican nomination for president.
“The same bunker mentality that has made DeSantis more feared than loved, that has allowed him to brush aside distractions and dismiss naysayers, has created an insular operation that struggles to do the outreach a presidential campaign requires,” he said. the article
A national survey published by NBC in April showed that former President Donald Trump has a double-digit lead over DeSantis among Republican primary voters.
