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Florida outline9/28/2023 ![]() DeSantis’ campaign tags the administration as the “Harris-Biden administration,” and the Florida governor has been one of a handful of Republican challengers who have suggested Harris would be the ultimate commander in chief because of Biden’s advanced age. They hear it and it creates confusion.”ĭeSantis and other Republicans are eager to make the 2024 presidential race about Harris, believing she can be a liability for Biden. She should not be doing this,” said King, a Black conservative activist who supports DeSantis’ presidential bid. King said it’s Harris, not DeSantis, who is continuing to fuel the controversy, adding that she has counted at least four times in recent days that Harris has spoken about the Florida standards. Quisha King, a Jacksonville mother of two African American girls, said she wants an apology from the vice president for spreading what she calls “lies” about Florida’s new Black history curriculum. They’ve been doing this to Republicans for years and years.”Īfter Harris’ response in Orlando on Tuesday, Never Back Down, the super PAC supporting DeSantis, tweeted, “Kamala Harris announces she is too afraid to meet with Ron DeSantis & the African American history scholars who created the Florida curriculum standards she is lying about.” When the left lies and creates these phony narratives, you’ve got to push back. “You can’t bend the knee to the left’s lies. “Kamala Harris got on a jet at taxpayer expense and flew to Florida to lie about the African American history standards,” DeSantis told Fox’s Bret Baier in a Monday interview. In his letter challenging Harris for a debate on the curriculum, DeSantis accused the vice president of trying to “score cheap political points” and said Florida was unique in requiring “this level of learning about such an important subject.” Rather than backing down, the DeSantis campaign has gone on the attack against critics, including Donalds, whose conservative credentials they question. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., a former ally of the governor who has endorsed former President Donald Trump. Tim Scott, one of DeSantis’ challengers for the GOP presidential nomination, and Rep. Still, most of the Black Republicans in Congress have come out against Florida’s new Black history curriculum, including South Carolina Sen. Allen, a Black professor emeritus at Michigan State University who has defended the wording about slavery. That came on the heels of a new Iowa law that bars most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, which is now on hold, blocked by a state judge.ĭeSantis has said his critics are intentionally misinterpreting the language and notes that among the people who worked on the new standards is William B. The vice president also flew to Iowa last week and met with abortion rights advocates as top GOP presidential candidates gathered in Des Moines to address an influential state Republican Party dinner. Two days after the new guidelines were formally approved, Harris and her aides quickly organized a trip to the state’s largest city of Jacksonville and denounced “extremists” who she argued were forcing “propaganda” on Florida schoolchildren. Harris’ trip to Orlando was her second to Florida in just over a week, after the state cleared new school guidelines that, in part, require teachers to instruct middle school students that enslaved people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” It’s language that DeSantis defends against strong pushback from Democrats and leading Black Republicans on Capitol Hill. And it highlights the elevated role that Harris has been taking: Leading the White House charge against Republicans vying to face off against President Joe Biden in the 2024 campaign. It was the latest volley in a rhetorical war over Florida’s new education standards that has escalated in recent days.
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