This is going to get 'interesting'.
Erika Donalds says Casey DeSantis ‘teased a run’ for Governor, but Byron Donalds can better deal with Florida issues'I don't know what she's going to do, but I know my husband has an incredible track record.'
Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds is entirely aware of First Lady Casey DeSantis being a potential opponent.
Potential future First Lady Erika Donalds made that clear, saying DeSantis was “teasing a run” to succeed her husband, Ron DeSantis, as Governor.
However, Erika Donalds also suggested strongly that Byron Donalds, a current Congressman and former state legislator, is better suited to lead. She specifically cited his ability to handle the “insurance crisis” that has emerged during the current Governor’s tenure.
“She’s teased a run. I don’t know what she’s going to do, but I know my husband has an incredible track record, you know, both voting in the state House and in Congress,” Erika Donalds told podcaster Tudor Dixon.
“He spent 20 years in financial services and banking and insurance and those are the things that really bring something to the table for Florida. We have an insurance crisis and property taxes. He totally understands those issues and we want to be the financial and business capital of the world. We’re already well on our way there. So I just think that his background really aligns well with where we’re positioned as a state right now and the fact that he does have such a conservative track record really speaks to Floridians.”
It’s not entirely clear where Byron Donalds would ultimately fall on insurance costs, even though he seems to believe they are too high. He recently questioned whether “climate change risks” should factor into the pricing scheme.
However, the issue is potent. Polling last month from the Associated Industries of Florida Center for Political Strategy found that a third of voters see insurance costs as the biggest issue facing Florida.
Erika Donalds continued to discuss the “insurance market” as “really in crisis right now.” And while she noted a correlation between “direct hits” from “natural disasters” and the crisis, she fell far short of implying causation.
“We’ve had a lot of carriers leave the state, you know, because of some of the natural disasters,” she said.
“You know, there’s legislation that could be improved in order to better the insurance markets here. Both property insurance and car insurance. So that’s a big concern. So just the mechanisms of that. And he did serve as a Chair of that committee in the state House when he was there. But also in Southwest Florida, unfortunately, we’ve had a lot of direct hits while he has been a representative either at the state or congressional levels, so he has been on the ground in Southwest Florida.”........
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