Ron DeSantis takes credit for delivering Congressional majority
On the 2024 campaign trail, Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking credit for delivering a Republican Congressional majority.
But the Florida politicians he helped sweep into office aren’t delivering for him in kind.
The presidential candidate told a crowd in Greenville, South Carolina that by “leading a ticket,” he had a “responsibility to help the other candidates who are running.”
And that help included redistricting, apparently, which ultimately changed the contours of the Florida Congressional Delegation and facilitated a slender Republican majority in the House.
“We helped elect four additional Republicans to the U.S. Congress and we probably wouldn’t have the majority if that hadn’t happened,” D...