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Gov. DeSantis kicks off pro-police tour around country as White House rumors swirl

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference proposing anti-crime legislation at the Police Benevolent Association in Miami on Jan. 26, 2023. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

NEW YORK CITY - Florida 's governor is scheduled to start a pro-police tour, starting in New York City.

Gov. Ron Desantis will begin the tour Monday morning, speaking with police officers and law enforcement union officials at a diner in Staten Island.

 The governor will then head to Fort Washington, a Philadelphia suburb, and Elmhurst, Illinois, near Chicago, where he will meet with sheriffs, chiefs of police and other local law enforcement officials, his political team told Fox News Digital.

Gov. DeSantis is expected to tout his efforts to support law enforcement and reduce crime in Florida.

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Paul DiGiacomo, president of New York City's Detectives' Endowment Association, said he will be attending Monday’s event. He told Fox News Digital that New York’s bail reform law that ended cash bail requirements for many criminal charges has endangered law enforcement.

"It’s a law enforcement rally to send a message back to some of our elected officials that the laws that they have enacted in the state of New York are not working – specifically the bail reform laws – and it’s putting my members, detectives and cops in danger, as well as the public," he said. "It’s gone too far to the left over the last couple of years."

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News of DeSantis’ upcoming trip to Chicago caused a backlash last week, prompting Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker to condemn the Florida governor as "homophobic."

"Well he doesn’t represent the values of the people in Illinois," Pritzker told WGN 9. "In fact, he is the antithesis of that. He’s demonstrated that he’s homophobic, that he has tendencies to promote racism."

DeSantis has been discussed as a potential GOP nominee to run for the presidency in 2024 although he's made no official announcement.

FOX News contributed to this report

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Stuart Varney: Ron DeSantis' 'campaign is taking shape' as he embarks on pro-police tour in Dem-led cities

Gov. ron desantis touts florida's booming success in blue cities.

Stuart Varney: Ron DeSantis' 'campaign is taking shape' as he embarks on pro-police tour

FOX Business host Stuart Varney argues Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has his 'eye on the Oval Office.'

During his latest "My Take," "Varney & Co." host Stuart Varney discusses Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis teeing up a potential presidential run as he embarks on a pro-police tour, arguing the governor's "campaign is taking shape" despite not declaring his candidacy.

STUART VARNEY:  Let’s be clear: Ron DeSantis has his eye on the Oval Office. He has a plan. A timeline. His campaign is taking shape.

If his performance in New York is anything to go by, he's off to a very good start.

He came to the city and focused on crime, education, and immigration. 

Key issues all across the country. I wish he had gone to California. They could learn a thing or two from Florida. 

But he started his pro-police tour in New York City! Perfect. He came to the belly of the beast and told 'em what they were doing wrong.

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FOX Business' Stuart Varney discusses Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' pro-police tour and possible presidential run. (Fox News)

Then he went to Chicago: he knows exactly where to go with his message on crime and education. As we reported yesterday, in 55 Chicago public schools not a single student met grade level expectations in reading or math. Not one! 

DeSantis has not, yet, declared his candidacy, but he's way out front of the pack. He's got something solid to run on, that is, Florida’s success . The promise here is that he would run the country, the way he runs Florida.

DESANTIS RACKS UP WINS WHILE TRUMP, POTENTIAL 2024 OPPONENTS TAKE SWIPES AT FLORIDA GOVERNOR

Donald Trump has not been silent . He has called the governor "Desanctimonious," lacking in "class" and "loyalty."

DeSantis has not responded. He doesn't need to. His track record in Florida speaks for itself.

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DeSantis went on a pro-police tour to three Democrat cities and everyone noticed

Everyone is keeping an eye on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Are there signs he will jump into the Republican presidential primary race? Yes. He visited three major Democrat-led cities on Monday and delivered pro-police speeches. He went to New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. He met with sheriffs, chiefs of police, and other local law enforcement officials to provide encouragement to those who feel unsupported by their local governments.

We know that law and order and crime will be major issues for Republican candidates in 2024. DeSantis ruffled some feathers, especially in New York City, when he spoke about woke politicians who are putting their city’s residents in jeopardy with their policies. He is happy to boast about his successes in Florida and the fact that while other places are experiencing an increase in crime, Florida is not. Some critics complained that DeSantis came to the cities to recruit police officers to come to Florida. He recently proposed legislation to strengthen bail laws, toughen penalties for sex criminals, and other anti-crime measures.

DeSantis implemented the largest recruitment package for law enforcement officers in state history last year. It provides a $5,000 signing bonus to officers willing to relocate to Florida from blue states.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams welcomed DeSantis before he arrived in the city with a tweet full of snark.

Welcome to NYC, @GovRonDeSantis , a place where we don’t ban books, discriminate against our LGBTQ+ neighbors, use asylum seekers as props, or let the government stand between a woman and health care. We’re happy to teach you something about values while you’re here. https://t.co/o2CgOt1SES — Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) February 20, 2023

Christina Pushaw did what she does so well – she responded in support of DeSantis and Florida.

Nice rhetoric — but here’s reality: More Americans fled NYC than any other metro area last year. More Americans moved to Florida than any other state. You know this, Mayor Adams, and you’ve talked (accurately) about crime pushing people out of NYC. Florida’s crime rate… https://t.co/gHru8I12PS — Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) February 20, 2023

DeSantis is about to do a book tour for his autobiography, titled “The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival,” which will be released next week. Pundits point to the cross-country book tour as a soft open to his 2024 presidential campaign. It is not an exaggeration to say that other potential Republican candidates are keeping a close eye on DeSantis. The most vocal critic is Donald Trump. He has been struggling to find a nickname for DeSantis and usually settles for Ron DeSanctimonious, which is just lame. He uses Truth Social to blast DeSantis on a regular basis. Will Trump go back to Twitter now that Elon Musk has given him the ok? Trump doesn’t have a big audience on Truth Social as he does on Twitter.

“Ron DeSanctimonious wants to cut your Social Security and Medicare,” Trump wrote Sunday night, “closed up Florida & its beaches, loves RINOS Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, and Karl Rove (disasters ALL!), is backed by Globalist’s Club for NO Growth, Lincoln Pervert Project, & ‘Uninspired’ Koch — And it only gets worse from there. He is a RINO in disguise!, whose Poll numbers are dropping like a rock. Good luck Ron!” “If he did run, I will tell you things about him that won’t be very flattering,” Trump told the outlet. “I know more about him than anybody other than perhaps his wife, who is really running his campaign.” Trump later unleashed a more than a 400-word tirade against DeSantis, slamming the governor as “average” and lacking “class” and “loyalty.” He criticized DeSantis for ordering lockdowns in Florida, saying the governor “didn’t have to close up his State, but did, unlike other Republican Governors,” and he credited himself for DeSantis’ 2018 gubernatorial win against disgraced Democrat Andrew Gillum.

The attacks against DeSantis over his response to the pandemic are interesting. Trump knows that he is vulnerable since he followed the advice of Fauci and the CDC and supported shutting down the country to mitigate the pandemic. He kept Fauci and others in place to lead the response to the pandemic. DeSantis did shut down Florida but not until Trump had already put in place his “15 Days to Slow the Spread” plan. That plan recommended governors shut down schools, restaurants, and other public places. Florida was one of the first to open back up and to this day, DeSantis receives criticism for not being authoritarian enough in Florida.

Trump looks weak in his attacks on DeSantis. Democrats and Never-Trumpers are cheering Trump’s attack in the hopes of damaging DeSantis. They don’t want Biden to have to run against DeSantis in 2024, they prefer Trump. They know DeSantis will beat Biden and Trump will not. They want another Biden-Trump match-up in 2024.

This isn’t 2015, though, and other Republicans have seen Trump’s playbook. They are not intimidated. Some are pre-emptively dinging DeSantis.

Nikki Haley claimed that the Florida bill for parental rights in the classroom didn’t go far enough . Others claimed DeSantis is too much for big government or not fiscally conservative enough.

“There was all this talk about the Florida bill — the ‘don’t say gay bill.’ Basically what it said was you shouldn’t be able to talk about gender before third grade. I’m sorry. I don’t think that goes far enough,” Haley told supporters in New Hampshire. “When I was in school you didn’t have sex ed until 7th grade. And even then, your parents had to sign whether you could take the class.” Another potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, on Sunday blasted DeSantis’ education initiatives as “big government” and even “authoritarian.” New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, another potential candidate, has also fired shots at DeSantis in recent weeks. “I’m ranked the most fiscally conservative governor in the country,” he told Politico this month. “I’m No. 1 in personal freedoms. Sorry, Ron, you’re No. 2.”

Larry Hogan is a joke. He has dreams of being president but he’ll never get anywhere in the primary. Sununu is a solid candidate but hasn’t captured the imagination of voters despite being on cable news shows every chance he gets. Haley is the only one so far to challenge Trump. Fox News Channel has her on at least one of their shows every day, it seems. Hogan favors appearances on CNN.

I visited NYC, Chicago, & Philadelphia to meet with the men & women of law enforcement to discuss FL's commitment to law & order. Woke policies enacted by Leftist politicians have proven to be disastrous & these cities need to embrace law & order policies & support the police. pic.twitter.com/qvv71iryVP — Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) February 21, 2023

Trump is going to East Palestine, Ohio tomorrow, a trip that Biden has failed to make. It will create a big media buzz for Trump. DeSantis indicated that he will wait for the Florida Legislature’s session to end, likely by June before he makes his decision known. So far, he has refused to get in the mud with Trump and ignores his attacks. It drives Trump crazy to be ignored.

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DeSantis Launches 'Pro-Police' Tour

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) continues to fuel presidential speculation this week, embarking on a "pro-police" tour, visiting places like New York, Chicago , and Philadelphia.

The Florida Governor has maintained that Florida is a "law and order" state, and he's encouraging officers to move to the sunshine state, offering them support and protection.

Governor DeSantis shared pictures on social media from his stops in Staten Island, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spoke from a podium donning the tagline "Florida Leading the way" as he discussed his own support for officers and what Florida has done to protect law enforcement.

"I visited NYC, Chicago, and Philadelphia to meet with the men and women of law enforcement and to discuss Florida's commitment to law and order," said Governor DeSantis, adding that "woke policies enacted by leftist politicians have proven to be disastrous and these cities need to embrace law and order policies and support the police."

I visited NYC, Chicago, & Philadelphia to meet with the men & women of law enforcement to discuss FL's commitment to law & order. Woke policies enacted by Leftist politicians have proven to be disastrous & these cities need to embrace law & order policies & support the police. pic.twitter.com/qvv71iryVP — Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) February 21, 2023

In another post, DeSantis commented that he had visited "Staten Island to recruit more police officers to FL and to talk about how law and order has been central to Florida's success."

I visited Staten Island to talk about how law & order has been central to FL's success. FL leads the nation in protecting LEOs & our crime rate is at a 50-year low, while NYC saw a 23% surge in major crime in 2022. Anti-police politicians should stop catering to the woke mob. pic.twitter.com/FpFDy0V4DZ — Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) February 20, 2023

He explained that "FL leads the nation in protecting law enforcement & our crime rate is at a 50-year low, while NYC saw a 23% surge in major crime in 2022." "Anti-police politicians should stop catering to the woke mob," he added.

Highlighting "Florida's Freedom Blueprint," the Governor assured attendees that "the foundation of Florida's success has been law and order and support of the people who wear the uniform."

If officers decide to move to Florida, DeSantis has vowed to provide them a "home" where they can wear their uniform and "keep communities safe." Comments such as this has caused responses from Democrats like California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) , who argues that California is the true "free state" of the U.S.

Both have been involved in a rivalry that has directed attention to a possible presidential run from Newsom.

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Ron DeSantis tramples over Trump turf with his outreach to law enforcement

ELMHURST, Ill. — The law enforcement groups Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke before Monday may have been in three different cities, but they had one thing in common: They're squarely in Donald Trump territory.

DeSantis, who is widely expected to announce a run for president, visited New York City and the suburbs of Philadelphia and Chicago to laud policies he helped put in place in Florida that he said give law enforcement the support it needs.

By taking a pro-police message directly to the rank and file of some of the biggest police unions in the country, DeSantis was homing in on a specialized electorate Trump has owned since he first ran for president in 2016.

DeSantis is ramping up his messaging outside Florida before a possible White House announcement. Next week, his book is to be released, and he is scheduled to headline GOP events next month in Alabama,  California  and  Texas .

Presidential hopefuls covet the endorsement of the national Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police labor group in the country. The group backed Trump in 2016 and again in 2020 . An aide said DeSantis had no more plans in the near term to address other police groups, but he is expected to make similar points in speeches moving forward.

On Monday, in the Knights of Columbus hall in Elmhurst, a suburb less than 20 miles outside Chicago, DeSantis dazzled the crowd of about 250 people, who frequently cheered and whistled at his statements about what he had enacted in Florida.

Meanwhile, outside the venue and across the street, a group of protesters arrived well before the event began, holding signs that read things like “It’s OK to say gay” and chanting “racist, sexist, anti-gay, Ron DeSantis, go away.” 

DeSantis took the audience on a tour of his tough-on-crime measures and said he wanted the death penalty for anyone who murdered a police officer. DeSantis' "Back to Blue" messaging began with embracing law enforcement, which he said had been taken for granted.

"You’re not going to have a good economy if the streets aren’t safe. You’re not going to good education if people don’t feel safe," he said. "None of it works unless you have the foundation."

He also bashed states that had implemented no-cash bail policies, like Illinois, as well as Oregon, for what he called the system's leniency with rioters in Portland in 2020.

"If you’re engaged in mob violence in Florida, you ain’t going to be treated like they do in Portland," DeSantis said. "In Florida, if you’re doing that, you’re not getting a slap on the wrist; you’re getting the inside of a jail cell."

As if to underscore how close DeSantis had crossed into his arena by focusing so heavily on law enforcement, Trump released a video Monday announcing a seven-point plan to reduce crime and “restore law and order.” It included going after “radical Marxist prosecutors who are abolishing cash bail, refusing to charge crimes and surrendering our cities to violent criminals.” He also called on the Justice Department to open civil rights investigations into prosecutors, naming those in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, “to determine whether they have illegally engaged in race-based enforcement of the law.”

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But DeSantis went beyond law enforcement policies in his speeches, spinning through a reel of his latest political and legal entanglements, including wrestling with Disney , removing a prosecutor who had refused to enforce laws about abortion and battling the "woke education" and "woke indoctrination" of students. 

While the room was made up of law enforcement, including members of the Chicago FOP, it was also a who's who of state legislators and members of Congress. The array of politicians alone was a telling sign that Republicans were ready to hear from an alternative to Trump.

GOP Rep. Darin LaHood, who is also a former prosecutor, said he knew DeSantis from when they overlapped in Congress for three years. DeSantis, he said, called him recently to invite him to Monday's event, where LaHood had a speaking role.   

“This is about supporting police and supporting law enforcement. In my view, this isn’t about 2024,” LaHood said in an interview. “This is about him highlighting the success they’ve had in Florida.” 

Another Illinois Republican, Darren Bailey, who recently ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor with Trump's backing, said he turned out to support law enforcement and hear DeSantis’ message. 

“I’m excited someone of this prominence would come — especially here, in this part of the state,” Bailey said. Asked whether he thought DeSantis was encroaching on Trump’s turf by showing up before FOP groups, Bailey said: “You can read between the lines and you would assume that, but I don’t know. I’m just glad he’s out elevating men and women that serve and protect.”

The Democratic National Committee responded to DeSantis' tour of police groups Monday, saying the improvements he touted were possible at least in part because of White House-backed funding.

“Actions speak louder than words — and it was President Biden and Democrats who passed the American Rescue Plan that funded first responders and law enforcement departments across the country," DNC spokesman Ammar Moussa said in a statement. "If Ron DeSantis had his way, Florida wouldn’t have had the resources to deliver for the law enforcement community.”

Natasha Korecki is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.

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Desantis kicks off national pro-police tour as white house rumors swirl.

Florida Republican Gov.  Ron DeSantis  is set to kick off a  pro-police  tour starting in New York City on Monday where he will speak with law enforcement officers who feel unsupported in democratic cities. His first stop will be a dinner in the borough of Staten Island and from there he will head to Fort Washington, a Philadelphia suburb, and Elmhurst, Illinois, near Chicago, where he will “meet with sheriffs, chiefs of police and other local law enforcement officials,” according to his political team.

Paul DiGiacomo, president of  New York City’s  Detectives’ Endowment Association, will be in attendance at Monday’s event and told reporters, “It’s a law enforcement rally to send a message back to some of our elected officials that the laws that they have enacted in the state of New York are not working – specifically the bail reform laws – and it’s putting my members, detectives and cops in danger, as well as the public,” he said. “It’s gone too far to the left over the last couple of years.”

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DeSantis is expected to tout his efforts to support law enforcement and reduce crime in Florida, where he recently proposed legislation to strengthen bail laws, toughen penalties for sex criminals and other anti-crime measures. According to the governor’s office, DeSantis implemented the largest recruitment package for law enforcement officers in state history last year, awarding $5,000 signing bonuses to officers willing to relocate to Florida from blue states.

News of DeSantis’ trip to Chicago caused backlash from Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker who labelled DeSantis as “homophobic.”

“Well he doesn’t represent the values of the people in Illinois,”  Pritzker told WGN 9 . “In fact, he is the antithesis of that. He’s demonstrated that he’s homophobic, that he has tendencies to promote racism.”

DeSantis has been discussed as a potential GOP nominee to run for the presidency in 2024 although he’s made no official announcement.

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Ron desantis kicks off pro-police tour to new york city, philadelphia and chicago this week.

Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker reportedly slurred the Florida Republican governor as a bigot. "He's demonstrated that he's homophobic, that he has tendencies to promote racism," Pritzker told WGN 9.

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Updated: February 20, 2023 1:09pm

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis began a pro-police tour in New York City on Monday to show support for beleaguered law enforcement officers in Democrat-run cities. 

The potential 2024 presidential candidate is set to speak with police officers and union officials at a diner in the red-leaning borough of Staten Island, according to Fox News. He will then travel to the Philadelphia suburb of Fort Washington and Elmhurst, Ill., outside Chicago.

Once there, DeSantis will meet with sheriffs, chiefs of police and various officials, according to information shared by his political staff with Fox News Digital.

The president of New York City's Detectives' Endowment Association, Paul DiGiacomo, who was slated to attend the event, told Fox about how New York's laws ending cash bail for certain criminal charges is endangering the nation's men and women in blue. 

"It's a law enforcement rally to send a message back to some of our elected officials," said DiGiacomo, "that the laws that they have enacted in the state of New York are not working — specifically the bail reform laws — and it's putting my members, detectives and cops in danger, as well as the public. It's gone too far to the left over the last couple of years."

DeSantis has proposed measures to bolster bail laws and toughen penalties for sex offenders, positioning himself as a pro-law enforcement candidate looking to take on rising crime rates across the country. 

DeSantis previously paid $5,000 signing bonuses to officers willing to relocate to Florida from blue regions, to help strengthen the security of the Sunshine state.

Not everyone was supportive of the DeSantis visit, however, as Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker accused the Florida governor of bigotry.

"Well, he doesn't represent the values of the people in Illinois,"  Pritzker told WGN 9 . "In fact, he is the antithesis of that. He's demonstrated that he's homophobic, that he has tendencies to promote racism."

Pritzker did not appear to cite any evidence in support of his reported slurs against DeSantis. 

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Florida’s ‘constitutional carry’ bill quickly clears legislative process.

State Senators and House Representatives have given approval to a controversial bill that would allow Floridians to carry concealed firearms without a permit and it appears unlikely to face any resistance that would prevent its passage. SB 150, titled “Public Safety,” and sponsored by freshman Sen. Jay Collins (R-Tampa) cleared the Senate Criminal Justice Committee on February 20 in a 5-3 vote and now has one more committee stop before Senators consider the legislation on the floor. Meanwhile, HB 543 sponsored by Rep. Chuck Brannan (R-Lake City) and Rep. Bobby Payne (R-Palatka) cleared its two committee assignments favorably and awaits a full House vote. With Republican supermajorities in both chambers, the “constitutional carry” bill is just a few steps from becoming law even before the regular legislative session begins on March 7. While the legislation would allow eligible Floridians to carry a concealed weapon without a permit or training, it does not allow for the open carry of guns. Senate President Kathleen Passidomo (R-Naples) said in a statement, “eliminating the need for a concealed weapons license in the state of Florida will help more Floridians better protect themselves and their families.” Both the Senate and House versions of the bill include measures to enhance school safety that were proposed in the wake of the Parkland school shooting such as sharing threat information between schools, firearm-sniffing K-9s, and requiring law enforcement agencies to have active shooter response policies with annual training. Democratic lawmakers have criticized their GOP colleagues for attempting to relax gun restrictions more favorable to the public by coupling it in a public safety package that includes widely-supported school safety measures. The bill has sailed through the legislative process despite a recent series of mass shootings, but with plenty of outcry from college students and gun safety advocates who are critical of the lawmakers not hearing their concerns for measures like enhanced background checks or banning assault weapons. Even champions of “constitutional carry” have voiced disapproval of the legislation for not going far enough to allow the open carry of firearms. Meanwhile, the Florida Sheriffs Association endorsed the permitless carry initiative with Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, who served as Chair of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission and helped develop the bill’s school safety elements, stating “From a public safety perspective, requiring that law-abiding people get a concealed weapons license is a roadblock to those citizens being able to protect themselves and their families.” Expected soon to arrive on the governor’s desk, Gov. DeSantis expressed his support for the bill, vowing last year to pass the legislation before he leaves office.

With the passage of this legislation, Florida would join 25 other states that currently have permitless carry laws, which allow anyone without a prior felony or otherwise prohibited from possessing a gun the right to carry a firearm without a license or required training. However, under the proposed bill, qualified Floridians would still be banned from carrying a weapon into a courthouse, polling place, government meeting, school or college campus, and professional athletic events, among others.

DeSantis embarks on pro-police tour in Democrat-run cities

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis began his pro-police tour last week, traveling to Democrat-run cities along the East Coast and midwest to meet with police officers, sheriffs, chiefs, and law enforcement union officials who feel demoralized amid a hostile work environment. The purpose of the tour is to share Florida’s framework for reducing crime in communities and demonstrate DeSantis’ support for officers before an expected presidential announcement this spring. This includes Florida’s efforts to attract and recruit law enforcement officers from other states with $5,000 bonuses and recent legislative proposals to strengthen penalties for sex crimes, toughen bail laws, and increase officers’ salaries. DeSantis began his tour on Monday at a diner in Staten Island and spoke to a crowd of law enforcement personnel, showcasing himself as a tough-on-crime, law-and-order governor. Upon arrival, he was greeted with a mocking tweet by New York City Mayor Eric Adams in which he offered to teach the Florida governor “something about values” during his visit. “Welcome to NYC, @GovRonDeSantis, a place where we don’t ban books, discriminate against our LGBTQ+ neighbors, use asylum seekers as props, or let the government stand between a woman and health care,” the tweet reads. A DeSantis campaign spokeswoman pushed back to point out that NYC lost more residents than any other American metropolitan area last year while Florida grew at the fastest rate and boasted a 50-year low crime rate. The governor continued his tour by traveling to Fort Washington, a suburb of Philadelphia, and Elmhurst, Illinois, outside of Chicago.

Florida’s first execution since 2019

Last week marked the first state execution of an inmate on death row since 2019 and the 100th inmate put to death since 1979, when Florida carried out its first execution in the modern-era after it was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976. Donald Dillbeck, 59, was pronounced deceased at 6:13 PM on Thursday – 32 years after a jury voted 8-4 to recommend the death penalty at his trial. Dillbeck was sentenced to life in prison in 1979 – at the age of 15 – after he was convicted of killing a Lee County Sheriff’s deputy, but escaped from custody 11 years later and murdered a woman outside Tallahassee Mall. For that crime, he was sent to death row. Dillbeck’s last words were aimed at ridiculing Gov. DeSantis, who signed his death warrant on January 23. “I know I hurt people when I was young,” he said. “I really messed up. But I know Ron DeSantis has done a lot worse. He’s taken a lot from a lot of people. I speak for all the men, women and children; he’s put his foot on our necks,” Dillbeck said before ending with obscenities directed at the governor. His last meal was delivered on Thursday morning and comprised of fried shrimp, mushrooms, onion rings, butter pecan ice cream, pecan pie and a chocolate bar, according to the Department of Corrections.

Tent city pops up in the Florida Keys

In the Florida Keys, where the cost of living is exceptionally high and housing is scarce, a tent camp has been erected along U.S. Highway 1 on vacant, privately owned lots in the tourism-dependent destination. However, alongside the quaint restaurants, shops, and beach cottages, sits more than a dozen trailers, a large air-conditioned tent, portable bathrooms, and laundry facilities, but the makeshift complex belongs to the government and wasn’t set up to house the homeless. Instead, the tent city was built to house the state law enforcement officers, National Guardsman, and other government personnel assigned to the Keys to handle the mass of migrant landings to the area. In an executive order issued by Gov. DeSantis last month, law enforcement personnel and the National Guard were dispatched to respond to the influx of hundreds of Cuban and Haitian migrants via makeshift boats in the Keys. The Village of Islamorada released a statement to clarify that the “base camp” is “NOT a migrant holding area” and was set up strictly for the “storage of vehicles” and to serve as a “housing/laundry facility” for officers and guardsman after the governor’s state of emergency was declared. Previously, the personnel temporarily assigned to the Keys were housed in hotel rooms but the camp was needed after the rooms were needed to occupy guests as the island entered into peak tourist season. The Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) is responsible for the base camp and will remain open until the governor’s executive order expires in a couple of weeks. At the end of 2022 and into January, the large number of Cuban migrants arriving to Key West overwhelmed police officers who lacked the resources and manpower to deal with the crisis.  DeSantis ordered National Guard crews and officers with the Florida Highway Patrol, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to report to the Keys in response. Since the January 5 executive order was issued, migrant arrivals are occurring less frequently. 

DeSantis’ timeline for announcing a (likely) presidential bid

As serious rumors have circulated for nearly a year about a possible 2024 presidential run by Gov. Ron DeSantis, he has largely remained silent on his future ambitions until recently. During an appearance on “Fox & Friends” this past week, DeSantis hinted at making a decision only after the state’s 2023 legislation session concludes in May, giving the clearest indication thus far of an anticipated campaign launch timeline. The announcement would come after the Republican governor embarks on a tour to promote his new book, “The Courage To Be Free,” which is set to be released on February 28. He also stated his intent to focus on the state legislature’s upcoming regular session that begins March 7 and work with lawmakers on numerous policy initiatives he has outlined over the past months. The book tour will give the Republican governor further exposure and the opportunity to spread his message across the country. Plus, with a GOP supermajority in both chambers of the state House and Senate, DeSantis is expected to add many legislative victories to his repertoire that he can tout on the campaign trail, further energizing his base. The latest polls of a hypothetical Republican primary show the Florida governor trailing behind former President Trump but ahead of other possible and declared candidates like former Vice President Mike Pence and former South Carolina governor and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who declared her candidacy two weeks ago.

World’s Most Expensive Family Vacation Spot: Orlando

According to research by Comparethemarket.com, a U.K. price comparison website, one of Florida’s hottest travel destinations is also the most expensive family vacation spot in the world. The data shows a family of four will spend on average $7,350 for a seven-night vacation, which factors $4,138 in peak season lodging costs, $3,148 in family-friendly activities, and $64 per day in “other costs” such as transportation and meals. Orlando had the highest activities cost versus all other cities examined on the list at $3,148. This was due to the vast array of theme parks and attractions like Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando Resort which have both increased in price due to their popularity. Cities in the study were ranked based upon the average combined costs of typical vacation expenses and do not include airfare. Trailing Orlando on the list was Rovaniemi, Finland, known as the “official hometown of Santa Claus” and featuring numerous winter activities like husky sledding, reindeer farms, an Arctic museum, and watching the Northern Lights. The average vacation in Rovaniemi totals $7,082. As for the most affordable family vacation destination? Nairobi, Kenya, boasting the lowest hotel and activity costs that lead to an average of $1,974 for a seven-day trip.

Downplaying the Russian military threat

Appearing on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized President Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday as hypocritical concern for the European nation’s territorial borders while ignoring the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. “He's very concerned about those borders halfway around the world. He's not done anything to secure our own borders here,” DeSantis said. He also diminished the actual military threat Russia poses to Ukraine as European leaders and NATO allies have grown concerned that President Vladimir Putin may expand the war to other neighboring countries. But that’s not how DeSantis sees it. "The fear of Russia going into NATO countries and all that and steamrolling…that has not even come close to happening," he said. "I think [Russia has] shown themselves to be a third-rate military power." Weighing in on foreign policy is unusual for a sitting governor, but probably not for a governor on the cusp of announcing a presidential bid. The latest criticism comes as DeSantis has stepped up his criticism of the Biden administration’s policies and ventured more into national issues.

City of Tampa loses control of a 104-year-old Black cemetery

The City of Tampa has been responsible for maintaining Memorial Park Cemetery since 2019 when the burial grounds became abandoned following the death of the owner. The cemetery is a historic 104-year-old Black cemetery north of Ybor City that tells an important part of Tampa’s Black history. The City placed a lien on the cemetery for what it owed in maintenance costs, anticipating that the property would be foreclosed upon, and sold at a public auction by the Hillsborough County Clerk of Courts. Despite Tampa’s intentions to purchase the property at auction, they lost out to a private bidder who won the property with an $18,000 bid. The opportunity was squandered when the City attorney’s office entered an initial bid but failed to counterbid or watch the online auction, allowing two property flippers to compete with one another. The Hillsborough County NAACP and relatives of those buried in the cemetery criticized Tampa’s careless attitude toward the auction and want the City to correct the mistake by purchasing it. The new owner of the Black cemetery, Alex Arteaga, was unaware that the 20-acre property was all cemetery land and now regrets the purchase for the significant upkeep that will be required. He has spent $30,000 (including the lien) so far to purchase the site and now wants to sell it to the City or a nonprofit, but its unclear how much Tampa would be willing to pay.

DeSantis, Sen. Scott call on federal agencies to move outside of Washington, D.C.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has suggested that some federal agencies should be moved out of Washington, D.C., to fend off the “accumulation of power” concentrated in the nation’s capital. “Too much power has accumulated in D.C. and the result is a detached administrative state that rules over us and imposes its will on us,” DeSantis said in a New York Post interview. The comments reveal the possible national agenda of a DeSantis campaign for president and align with former President Trump’s calls to “Drain the Swamp.” "While there are a host of things that need to be done to re-constitutionalize government, parceling out federal agencies to other parts of the country could help reduce the negative effects of this accumulation of power," he added. DeSantis’ predecessor and current U.S. Senator Rick Scott endorsed the proposal in a tweet that read, “Ron is right. I proposed the same [idea] in my Rescue America plan.” Adding, “The Republican establishment in Washington wants to protect the status quo, but we need to be for big, bold ideas if we want to save our country.” Sen. Scott’s support also represents a possible cooling of tensions between the former and current Florida governor, with Scott extending an olive branch to DeSantis as he seeks re-election next year.

What will happen to the $570 million collected from Hillsborough’s invalidated transportation sales tax?

In 2018, Hillsborough County voters approved a 1% sales tax for countywide transportation projects, but the penny tax was short-lived after the Florida Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in February 2021. The Court found that the tax conflicted with state statute that gives the County Commission the authority to control the revenue allocation, effectively freezing the $562 million already collected. Gov. DeSantis weighed in on the matter and proposed the state – via the Department of Revenue – to refund the money to taxpayers, outlining the refund as part of his proposed 2023 budget. The governor has suggested a refund process be established by a third-party administrator for those who can prove they paid the tax. However, questions remain on who would be eligible, how much would be returned, and who would have the receipts to prove what they’re owed. Refund requests by individual taxpayers would have to be submitted by February 29, 2024, with actual payments being issued by April 1, 2024, if lawmakers agree with DeSantis’ submitted budget plan. Any amount remaining of the $562 million would be earmarked for transportation projects within Hillsborough County such as pedestrian safety and road improvements.

Trump celebrates new Florida GOP chair as victory over DeSantis

Florida Republicans have selected Christian Ziegler as their new party chairman ahead of the 2024 election, which is expected to garner national attention with former President Donald Trump having declared his candidacy in November and Gov. Ron DeSantis also likely to jump into the race. Ziegler, who serves as the party’s current vice chair, was chosen over Leon County Republican Party chair Evan Power, who was subsequently elected as vice chair of the state GOP. Trump had backed Ziegler’s run as the state’s party chief while DeSantis loyalists endorsed his opponent, Evan Power, giving the governor’s supporters some concern over the former president’s statewide win among a faction of Republican leaders. The race was viewed as a proxy war between Trump and DeSantis supporters ahead of an anticipated head-to-head presidential primary matchup of the two firebrand politicians. Trump could gain even greater influence in the state with Ziegler at the helm of the Florida GOP as the party chair has leverage over ballot access, directing funds to political races, and get-out-the-vote efforts. Ziegler is a former Sarasota County commissioner with ties to advisers of President Trump, including former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. He was also in attendance at the infamous January 6 Trump rally but never entered the Capitol building. Trump touted the victory on his Truth Social platform saying, “We won a big Chairmanship in Florida over the DeSantis Reps, but actually, it’s a win for ALL. That’s the way we want it. Christian will be a great Chairman.”

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced a pro-police tour aimed at showing support for law enforcement in major cities.

The cities where the tour is focused on have come under criticism from Democratic politicians and where violent crime rates have increased in recent years, according to The Conservative Brief .

The Republican governor is planning to visit several major cities including New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago, to discuss his efforts in Florida to recruit and support law enforcement.

DeSantis has been an advocate for law enforcement, even signing into law a measure that aims to crack down on violent protests and “defund the police” movements.

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“It’s a law enforcement rally to send a message back to some of our elected officials that the laws that they have enacted in the state of New York are not working  — specifically the bail reform laws — and it’s putting my members, detectives and cops in danger, as well as the public,” Paul DiGiacomo, president of New York City’s Detectives’ Endowment Association, noted regarding a meeting Monday’s meeting in Staten Island. “It’s gone too far to the left over the last couple of years.”

“On Staten Island, we are proud to support our law enforcement,” Assemblyman Mike Tannousis, the Staten Island GOP chairman, said . “I’m happy that our law enforcement community will get some recognition and support.”

According to a report by WJHG, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement revealed at the end of last year that the state's crime rate had dropped by 8 percent to its lowest level in half a century.

Florida's Republican Governor has recently proposed a "Framework for Freedom Budget" for the current fiscal year that includes several measures aimed at supporting law enforcement officers. These measures include salary increases for a wide range of personnel within law enforcement agencies.

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“What Florida has done is establish a blueprint for governance that has produced tangible results while serving as a rebuke to the entrenched elites who have driven our nation into the ground. Florida is proof positive that we, the people are not powerless in the face of these elites,” DeSantis wrote.

Although the governor has not declared his candidacy for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, his recent actions indicate that he may be considering it.

Currently, there are two official Republican presidential contenders for the party's 2024 nomination - former President Donald Trump and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who also served as his UN ambassador.

However, it is expected that more candidates will enter the race, including DeSantis, who strongly hinted at a potential run during a press conference held in Jacksonville.

Political insiders are speculating that DeSantis may be planning to run for president, as his autobiography is set to be released later this month.

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Updated on: February 20, 2023 / 6:52 PM EST / CBS New York

NEW YORK --  Ron DeSantis on Monday got a warm welcome on Staten Island , where he slammed New York's crime policies before a law-and-order audience.

However, the potential Republican candidate for president got the cold shoulder from Mayor Eric Adams .

A special campaign song played, but you could hardly see DeSantis, as he was mobbed by supporters after a Presidents Day foray into what might once have been enemy territory, the land of Donald Trump .

"This idea of no cash bail and you just release 'em right back on to the street, and I read that New York is the only state that doesn't allow judges to consider, when they're making a bail determination, whether someone's a danger to the community," DeSantis said.

Florida's governor is expected to announce this spring that he is running for president. He was introduced by Lee Zeldin , whose own law-and-order platform gave Kathy Hochul a run for her money in the governor's race .

"We want streets that have law-abiding New Yorkers in charge of them, as opposed to criminals," Zeldin said.

DeSantis never mentioned former President Trump, but his decision to go to Staten Island was the equivalent of firing a missile at Mar-a-Lago with the message "I'm coming for you" inscribed on its fuselage.

"As much as I'm proud of Florida doing well, I want the country to do well," DeSantis said. "We fight the woke when they go after our law enforcement. We do not surrender to the woke mob. Our state is where woke goes to die."

Trump couldn't have enjoyed the fact that some of the attendees sported DeSantis-for-president t-shirts.

"I think Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley would be a great ticket, don't you?" said Ron Arabia of Tottenville.

"I believe we need young blood and he's a perfect candidate if he runs for president. He's young, he's a military man and he's a family man. Look at Florida. Florida is booming," another supporter said.

Welcome to NYC, @GovRonDeSantis , a place where we don’t ban books, discriminate against our LGBTQ+ neighbors, use asylum seekers as props, or let the government stand between a woman and health care. We’re happy to teach you something about values while you’re here. https://t.co/o2CgOt1SES — Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) February 20, 2023

Mayor Adams gave DeSantis the equivalent of a Bronx cheer, tweeting, "Welcome to NYC, @GovRonDeSantis, a place where we don't ban books, discriminate against our LGBTQ+ neighbors, use asylum seekers as props or let the government stand between a woman and health care."

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DeSantis teasing White House run with pro-police tour in blue states

Yep, he’s running.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to run for president, has not officially declared he’s seeking the White House but a three-city tour that kicked off today in New York City is the biggest hint of his plans so far.

With a theme of defending and praising law enforcement, the Florida governor spoke early Monday morning to a police union in Staten Island. He is also scheduled to travel to the suburbs of Philadelphia and Chicago, too, where he will point out the criminal-defending failures of blue-city Democrats and highlight public safety successes in The Sunshine State.

ABC News 7, a local New York City affiliate, reported DeSantis criticized so-called bail reform laws that block a judge from keeping a defendant locked up.

“Here you are in uniform, having to risk your life, bring them in, and then they just release them,” DeSantis told the gathering. “How does that make any sense?"

DeSantis is scheduled to speak later on Monday in Elmhurst, Illinois. The name of that event is “Law and Order Illinois,” according to a Chicago-area news outlet, NBC 5.

According to a PJ Media story , news the Republican governor is visiting Chicago’s suburbs upset that city’s Democrat mayor and well as several mayoral candidates. All of them described DeSantis as some kind of evil racist Republican, PJ writer Rick Moran wrote, as if they were trying to outdo each other with the most exaggerated insults and accusations.

“Ron DeSantis has perfected being a bigoted, racist demagogue,” Lori Lightfoot, Chicago’s failed mayor, said of Florida’s successful governor.

What is notable about the Florida governor’s visit, Moran points out, is the “terrified” reaction by Democrats, as if a dangerous serial killer - not a Republican governor - is arriving soon. 

“DeSantis should carefully note the hysteria by Democrats,” Moran observes. “It should serve him well when his campaign for president begins in earnest.”

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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to a crowd of about 200 at the Knights of Columbus in Elmhurst on Feb. 20, 2023.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, exploring a 2024 bid for the White House, came to west suburban Elmhurst on Monday as part of a tour attacking Democrats for enacting “woke” policies that encourage crime and weaken law enforcement as he recruited police officers to move to the Sunshine State.

“As they are defunding police and attacking police in these other jurisdictions, the state of Florida has shown them that we got your back and we support what you’re doing,” DeSantis told about 200 people in a half-hour speech promoted by the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police at a Knights of Columbus hall.

While taking jabs at major cities headed by Democrats, DeSantis promoted laws Florida has passed that support law enforcement, including signing bonuses for new officers and those who transfer from other states, as well as scholarships for family members. His appearance followed visits earlier in the day to New York City and suburban Philadelphia.

While DeSantis made mention of Illinois’ high taxes, COVID-19 restrictions, critical race theory and school choice, most of his talk centered on the event’s theme of “Back the Blue.” He touted bringing in the National Guard and prosecuting protesters during the demonstration in response to the murder of George Floyd. He also recounted stories of speaking with new Floridians, saying they had moved from Democratic-run cities because of what they contended was a broken law enforcement system.

“As you see massive increases in crime in places like Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Florida has a 50-year low in our crime rate,” DeSantis said.

“You’re not going to have a good economy if the streets aren’t safe, you’re not going to have good education if people don’t feel safe.” DeSantis said. “None of it works unless you have the foundation of public safety.”

Statistics compiled by the Major Cities Chiefs Association and released this month show murders and aggravated assaults declined in Chicago in 2022 compared to 2021 while numbers for rape and robbery increased. Murders and aggravated assaults increased in Jacksonville and Orlando and murder and robbery statistics increased in Tampa. While murders declined in Miami, numbers for rape, robbery and aggravated assault increased, the statistics showed.

DeSantis was introduced at the event by U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood of Peoria.

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis of Taylorville, who served with DeSantis in the U.S. House, said the Florida governor’s trip was to “remind a lot of police officers that there are places in this country where their work can be appreciated.”

Though Republicans focused on crime in last November’s general election in Illinois with little success, Davis blamed it on GOP governor candidate Darren Bailey, calling him a “terrible candidate and a terrible messenger” against Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Bailey was in attendance at the Elmhurst event.

“You’ve got a sitting (Illinois) governor, who’s obviously been mentioned as a prospective presidential candidate, which gets him and many others extra attention. And when you’re looking at the success of what Ron’s done in Florida, he’s actually enacted the most pro-law enforcement policy package in the nation,” said Davis, now a managing director at Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies, who has offered to be a surrogate if DeSantis makes a presidential run.

“This really shows the difference between what Gov. Pritzker is doing here in Illinois, what Mayor (Lori) Lightfoot is doing in the city of Chicago, versus what Ron DeSantis is doing: To try and attract more cops into his state versus attacking police officers when they’re doing their job,” he said.

Pritzker, speculated as a potential 2024 Democratic presidential candidate if President Joe Biden does not run, has been a frequent critic of DeSantis. Pritzker has called DeSantis the “antithesis” of the values represented by Illinois residents.

Lightfoot, at an unrelated appearance, said the Florida governor “stands for everything that Chicagoans have never accepted and won’t accept now.”

With his trip coming eight days before the Chicago mayoral election, DeSantis’ visit also became fodder for other candidates in the mayoral contest.

U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García contended the visit was an effort by FOP President John Catanzara to stir up momentum for the union’s endorsed mayoral candidate, Paul Vallas. Vallas had tried to distance himself from the FOP’s promotion of the DeSantis event, referring to the Florida governor as a “right-wing extremist.”

In addition to Pritzker’s public criticism of DeSantis, the Illinois governor’s animus goes even deeper.

Citadel billionaire CEO Ken Griffin, who moved from Chicago to Florida after spending $50 million on an unsuccessful GOP candidate to take on Pritzker, is one of DeSantis’ top financial supporters. Griffin, who blamed Pritzker for city crime outbreaks, has given DeSantis $5 million and also has given the Florida Republican Party another $5 million, state campaign finance records show.

At the same time, former one-term Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, who Pritzker defeated in 2018, has moved to Florida and has given DeSantis nearly $1 million, records show.

Progressive groups opposing the event were also out in force. Jax West, the leader of a group called Team BluePage managed a group of 10 with loudspeakers who held signs that said, “Say Gay Three Times and Ron will Go Away.”

“He is such a hateful person,” West said about DeSantis’ policies opposing gay and historic race history in schools. “He really wants people to attack and hate other people due to who they love, what color they are.”

With DeSantis gaining national attention on his trip focused on law enforcement, the man who is the major obstacle to the Florida governor’s GOP presidential nomination chances, former President Donald Trump, released an anti-crime plan Monday that included a vow, if elected, to direct the Justice Department to “open civil rights investigations into radical leftist prosecutor’s offices,” including Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx.

“We will go after the radical Marxist prosecutors who are abolishing cash bail, refusing to charge crimes and surrendering our cities to violent criminals. They have surrendered like never before,” Trump said in a video .

Trump also promised to sign “a record investment in hiring, retention and training for police officers nationwide” that includes liability protections and to give violent crime victims and business owners the right to sue local officials “for harm and suffering” caused by criminal justice reform laws such as cashless bail.

DeSantis spent several minutes shaming Chicago for following New York in eliminating cash bail for nonviolent offenders.

“There used to be, you could be a Democrat or Republican and still want law and order,” DeSantis said. “Just because you’re running in this Democratic primary, you don’t have to elect the craziest person in the primary.”

DeSantis ended his event by inviting everyone to Florida and giving the state a new nickname, “Where woke goes to die.”

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(UnitedHeadlines.com) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke with police officers and union officials on Staten Island Feb. 20, kicking off a pro-police tour. The tour includes stops in pro-Democrat cities.

Staten Island is New York’s most Republican leaning borough, leading to speculation as to the choice DeSantis made in going there because of a potential run in 2024.

He will continue his tour by meeting with sheriffs and others in law enforcement in a suburb of Philadelphia, and then he will head to a suburb of Chicago .

As part of the speaking tour, DeSantis will discuss his support for law enforcement officers, as well as his proposed bill which would make bail laws tougher. The bill would also contain other measures to help reduce crime. Some of the proposals in the bill include increased penalties for drug-related crimes and increasing human smuggling interdictions . 

The President of New York City’s Detectives’ Endowment Association stated how he hopes lawmakers take notice of the laws the New York has passed have not helped law enforcement in their jobs.

Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams took to Twitter Feb. 20 to criticize DeSantis for his bills regarding education in Florida. With a visit to a suburb of Chicago on DeSantis’ schedule the Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker has also taken the time to speak out against DeSantis. 

Last year, DeSantis implemented a recruitment package offering law enforcement officers a $5,000 bonus for relocating to Florida. This was the largest recruitment package in Florida’s history, according to DeSantis’ office. The bonus is available to those either just entering into law enforcement or veteran officers. Florida also covers the expenses of the state’s Certification Exam as well as training expenses of up to $1,000. While the goal is to recruit officers to Florida, DeSantis also said the goal was to improve the morale of law enforcement officers.

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Ron DeSantis takes ANOTHER step towards a 2024 run: Florida Governor fuels further speculation by kicking off nationwide pro-police tour in Democrat-run cities that are 'putting woke policies ahead of your safety'

• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off his multi-city 'Law and Order' tour with a stop in Staten Island on Monday 
• He will also speak in Democratic enclaves of Philadelphia and Chicago 
• Accused lawmakers of trying to 'out-woke one another' when it comes to law enforcement and crime policies 

By Katelyn Caralle, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com

Published: 09:01 EDT, 20 February 2023 | Updated: 12:01 EDT, 20 February 2023

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Ron DeSantis is taking his 'anti-woke' message on the road with a visit to Staten Island on Monday morning for breakfast with law enforcement and remarks on his 'blueprint on keeping communities safe' while kicking off his 'Law and Order' tour.

He delivered remarks at Privé catering hall on the South Shore of Staten Island and accused lawmakers in New York and other Democratic enclaves of trying to 'out-woke' each other with policies that have led to a spike in crime and breakdown of law enforcement power.

The Florida governor's swing through the northeast is fueling speculation that he is inching closer to announcing a bid for president in 2024. His one-day trip will also feature stops in Philadelphia and Chicago. 

The visit coincides with the President's Day holiday and comes as former President Donald Trump continues to launch attacks against DeSantis , who is quickly emerging as the most likely to be able to take down the former president in a primary.

Some local reporters say DeSantis should expect to be met with protesters who are particularly peeved at the governor's plan to send migrants to Democratic bastions like New York and other northeast cities.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis kicked off his multi-city 'Law and Order' tour with a stop in Staten Island, New York on Monday, February 20, 2023.

Following a breakfast with law enforcement, DeSantis spoke to a room full of supporters at the Privé catering hall in the South Shore of Staten Island – the most conservative borough of New York City 

Supporters of DeSantis gather outside Privé catering hall in Staten Island on the President's Day holiday as the Florida governor spoke with law enforcement about his 'blueprint for keeping communities safe'

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that he could 'teach' DeSantis about 'values' during his visit to the Big Apple.

'Welcome to NYC, Gov. Ron DeSantis,' Adam wrote in a tweet, 'a place where we don't ban books, discriminate against our LGBTQ+ neighbors, use asylum seekers as props, or let the government stand between a woman and health care.'

'We're happy to teach you something about values while you're here,' the Democratic mayor added.

Ahead of the rally, DeSantis had breakfast with law enforcement at Annadale Terrace diner across the street from the location for his remarks.

A spokesperson for DeSantis said that the governor went to the diner and Privé catering hall Monday morning to meet cops and other law enforcement officers where they are and usually frequent. 

DeSantis began his remarks by claiming that leaders in cities like New York are putting policy above safety.

'The reason why you have what you have in some of these other jurisdictions, is because they're putting woke ideology ahead of your safety – as New Yorkers, as people from Illinois or wherever you have this type of policy taking place,' DeSantis said.

He also accused Democratic politicians of trying to 'out-woke one another' in order to win a primary in left-leaning enclaves like New York and going on to win primaries because of the extreme political imbalance in these areas. 

He also repeated at the conclusion of his speech a line he used during his inauguration remarks last month, claiming that Florida 'is where woke goes to die.' 

Staten Island is New York's most red borough and the only one that voted for Trump both in 2016 and 2020. In the 2020 election, 57 percent of Staten Island cast their ballot for Trump's reelection.

The trip on Monday put to the test DeSantis' chances among some of Trump's strongest backers in his former home city.

It appears that a few hundred people showed up for the event, and the room was filled with enthusiasm for DeSantis. Some cheered when DeSantis asked if they plan to move to Florida. 

DeSantis was introduced by former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who retired from the House to run for the Executive Mansion in Albany against Governor Kathy Hochul. 

Despite losing, Zeldin did receive the highest percentage of the vote for a Republican gubernatorial nominee since 2002 – and the highest raw vote total for a Republican gubernatorial nominee since 1970.

Much of his strides in the race in the deep blue state was attributed to his focus on returning to New York law and order ideals from years past.

DeSantis' President's Day speech kicks off his multi-city tour about his pro-cop, law and order style of governing – touting that it has led to a 50-year low crime rate in Florida.

He said that policies in Florida help with this mission. This includes, DeSantis said, 'backing the blue' with funds and morale. 

'You know, the frustrating thing is you'll have these people running for like district attorney or this stuff, and they're in the Democrat primary, and they're all running to be left of the left,' DeSantis said of elections in blue states. 'But then whoever wins the primary wins the general because you have so many such an imbalance.'

'So, it creates this race to try to 'out-woke' one another,' he alleged. 'And that ends up creating these disastrous policies.'

DeSantis began his remarks by claiming that leaders in cities like New York are 'putting woke ideology ahead of your safety'

Some attendees donned DeSantis gear for a 2024 presidential bid – even though the Florida governor has not yet officially announced if he is running

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who lost his bid for governor in the 2022 midterms, introduced DeSantis for his remarks at Privé on President's Day, February 20, 2023

A fact sheet on the tour notes that the governor's remarks are aimed at 'sharing Florida's blueprint for keeping communities safe and offer support as blue cities turn their backs on the law enforcement community.'

DeSantis has remained relatively quiet on the presidential ambitions front, saying at a press conference this month 'wouldn't you like to know?' when a reporter asked if he would enter the running now that former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announced her bid. 

Republican member of the New York City Council Joe Borelli speculated the trip is a 'sign' that DeSantis is entering the race – even suggesting he could announce his bid.

'Staten Island was the HQ of the GOP's first presidential campaign in 1856 for John Fremont. Maybe it's a sign,' Borelli wrote. Fremont did not go on to become president.

Trump has relentlessly attacked DeSantis by sending nearly daily insults toward the Florida governor before he has even announced a presidential run.

The latest came late Sunday when Trump posted about a new poll showing support waning for DeSantis in a head-to-head with the former president and utilizing his often-used moniker for the governor – 'DeSanctimonious'. 

Supporters flanked DeSantis after his remarks, trying to snap an image of the Florida governor and potential 2024 presidential candidate

The tour is fueling the speculation that DeSantis will soon launch a presidential GOP primary bid against former President Donald Trump in 2024

'Of course it [support] cools,' Trump said. 'He wants to cut Social Security and Medicare, loves 'Throw them over the cliff' Paul Ryan, who is destroying FoxNews (sic) and the WSJ, Piglet Karl Rove, and 'Jeb.' Also, Ron DeSanctimonious is for Globalist Club For NO Growth, and Open Borders Charles Koch. We want AMERICA FIRST, NOT AMERICA LAST!!!'

Just before midnight on Saturday, the former president also accused DeSantis of being a 'RINO in disguise.'

That post on Trump's social media website Truth Social came nearly 24 hours after he promised not to fat shame DeSantis following reports that he privately referred to the GOP governor as 'Meatball Ron.'

The flood gates opened against DeSantis when Trump hit the campaign trail late last month. He told reporters on his plane between events in New Hampshire and South Carolina that it would be very 'disloyal' if DeSantis launched a 2024 primary bid against him.

DeSantis earned his first term as Florida governor by partially riding on the coattails of Trump's endorsement in 2018.

Trump now lives in DeSantis' state full-time at his residence at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

So far, Trump and his former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley are the only two major Republicans to launch an official bid for the White House in 2024. But at least a few dozen others are considering or rumored to be weighing a run, including former Vice President Mike Pence, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott and former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan.

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DeSantis Starts Pro-Police Tour In NY, Philadelphia, Chicago

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Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, a staunch defender of law enforcement, is making a tour around the country to meet and support law enforcement officers. DeSantis will visit areas of New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago, reportedly discussing his own efforts in Florida vis-à-vis law enforcement. “It’s a law enforcement rally to send a message back to some of our elected officials that the laws that they have enacted in the state of New York are not working  — specifically the bail reform laws — and it’s putting my members, detectives and cops in danger, as well as the public,” Paul DiGiacomo, president of New York City’s Detectives’ Endowment Association, said of Monday’s meeting in Staten Island. “It’s gone too far to the left over the last couple of years.”

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White House buzz ramps up as DeSantis embarks on pro-police tour in several blue states

The buzz continues to grow about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stepping into the arena to challenge Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, even though the popular governor has made no official announcement.

Add fuel to the embers of what would be a raging fire if proven true is a pro-police tour DeSantis is embarking on this week. The governor will visit a number of blue states, starting in New York City, to address law enforcement officers who feel unsupported, according to Fox News.

“DeSantis will begin the tour Monday morning by speaking with police officers and law enforcement union officials at a diner in the red-leaning borough of Staten Island. The governor will then head to Fort Washington, a Philadelphia suburb, and Elmhurst, Illinois, near Chicago, where he will meet with sheriffs, chiefs of police and other local law enforcement officials,” the network reported, citing DeSantis’s political team.

He is expected to point to Florida as an example of how to support law enforcement and reduce crime — DeSantis recently proposed legislation to strengthen bail laws, toughen penalties for sex criminals and other anti-crime measures, Fox News noted.

DeSantis prioritized the recruit out-of-state law enforcement officers last year awarding $5,000 signing bonuses to officers willing to relocate to Florida, this being part of the largest recruitment effort in state history, according to the governor’s office.

Paul DiGiacomo, president of New York City’s Detectives’ Endowment Association, will be on hand Monday when DeSantis visits Staten Island and he denounced New York’s bail reform law that ended cash bail requirements for many criminal charges, telling Fox News that this has endangered law enforcement and the public.

“It’s a law enforcement rally to send a message back to some of our elected officials that the laws that they have enacted in the state of New York are not working – specifically the bail reform laws – and it’s putting my members, detectives and cops in danger, as well as the public,” DiGiacomo said. “It’s gone too far to the left over the last couple of years.”

News of the tour certainly has the left triggered… here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story from Twitter:

Doesn’t the Florida Constitution say he must resign from being Governor before he can announce a run for President ? Not that I would ever expect a republican to ever follow a law or anything let a lone a Constitution.. — Hello Kenny (@rokmoto131) February 20, 2023

Editor left out state after police. — Lunch Table Captain ⚓️ (@Apocalyptology) February 20, 2023

Doesn’t he have Governor things to do — Unarmed Teacher (@UnarmedTeacher) February 20, 2023

You’re too busy trying to Be Lord or Father over Florida, 1. telling our kids what type of classes they are allowed to take, as well what to study in them. 2. Turning FL into an open gun carry state, which will hurt police as well as citizens; they won’t know who’s carrying it. — Brenda Elliott (@BrendaE12533541) February 20, 2023

Oh please. Are these the same cities who had to welcome people he sent? Work on Florida and Florida cities. pic.twitter.com/1YMUHNNcTf — EKA (@ekastx2018) February 20, 2023

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A new technology is attempting to brighten clouds and bounce some of the sun’s rays back into space..

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From “The New York Times,” I’m Katrin Bennhold. This is “The Daily.”

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After failing for decades to cut carbon emissions enough to stop the planet from dangerously overheating, scientists are increasingly looking at backup measures, some that would fight the warming by intervening in the climate itself. Today, my colleague Christopher Flavelle on the efforts to engineer our way out of the climate crisis.

It’s Friday, April 5.

So, Chris, you’ve been covering climate change for a while, but recently you’ve been focused on a very special project. Tell us about this.

Yeah, two things have been happening in climate change recently that are really important. Number one, records have been falling at alarming rates. Last year was, again, the hottest year on record. Much the world surpassed the important threshold of 1.5 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels. So the world is getting warmer at an alarming rate.

At the same time, emissions aren’t falling. The message of the last generation has been, we need to cut emissions really to almost zero by the end of this century. And in fact, the reverse is happening. Emissions are continuing to rise.

At the same time, the number and characteristics of weather disasters have become really alarming. So the effects of that warming have become really clear. And it’s clear that the world is struggling to adapt to those effects.

So the other thing that’s happening at a high level is there’s more research and more consideration of OK, what if we can’t cut emissions fast enough? What if we’re going to have this really severe degree of warming? Can we do something else, maybe temporarily, to buffer those effects? And that’s led to this question of, what kinds of changes can we make deliberately to the atmosphere, to the environment that will maybe produce some sort of artificial cooling in the meantime?

So earlier this week I was able to watch, as scientists did, the first outdoor tests in the US on a technology that will aim to do just that. It’s called marine cloud brightening.

So what is this idea of brightening the clouds? Where did it originally come from?

So everyone I talked to pointed back to one really important moment in 1990 when a British physicist named John Latham was taking a hike in Wales with his young son. And they were looking out at the clouds over the Irish Sea.

And as Dr. Latham later told it, his son asked him, “Hey, why are clouds bright?” And Dr. Latham said, “Well, because they reflect sun right back in the sky.” And his son said, “So they’re like soggy mirrors.”

And Dr. Latham went on to write a letter in 1990 that was published in the Journal Nature, saying, you know what, if we can deliberately manipulate these clouds, maybe we can make them more reflective and actually counteract the effects of global warming. That was the inception point for this idea, and it led to decades of research culminating in this week’s test.

So the idea is if you can make clouds more reflective, you can reflect more of the sun’s heat back into space. So it won’t get trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere in the first place.

Exactly. That’s what they’re trying to do.

That’s a very simple, and at the same time, a very powerful idea. I love actually that they were hiking in Wales. That’s where I am right now, and we sure have a lot of clouds here, rain clouds. But tell me more about what you saw at the testing site.

So this Tuesday, a little after 7:00 in the morning, I pulled up in a parking lot on a dock at the edge of Alameda.

I’m standing at the gangplank to the USS Hornet, a decommissioned aircraft carrier in San Francisco Bay here for the first test in the US of a machine that was designed to try to brighten clouds, a way of maybe temporarily cooling the Earth.

And I made my way up one of the massive gangplanks and came in to find a cluster of some of the top atmospheric scientists in the world.

Have you met Sarah?

How do you do?

Hi, Rob. How are you?

Looking really excited. And they accompanied me out to the flight deck —

Here we are.

— of this aircraft carrier.

Pretty epic.

It’s pretty great.

Which was a bit like a party. They’d set up a little table on the side with some coffee and some sandwiches, and people were chatting and saying hi to each other. And I asked them why they were excited.

So I know a thousand of what you know, and I still find this exciting. You guys, walk me through. Is this like a big day for you or just like one more test?

No, this is a big day for me.

And they said this was actually a huge day in their research.

Just looking at it, going, yeah, this is the culmination of years of work, right?

Wow, and tell me about what exactly they were so excited about and what they were doing on the ship.

Yeah, the thing everyone was excited about was this machine set up at the far end of the flight deck of this aircraft carrier. It’s blue. It’s shiny. It looks a bit like a snow maker or maybe like a spotlight.

This machine is a sprayer. What it does is it sprays really, really, really small aerosol particles, in this case, smashed up sea salts, a long distance at just the right size and just the right volume. Because in theory, at some point, you could use this machine to change the size and number of the droplets in the clouds. You can make them brighter conceptually it’s possible. The question is, technologically, can we do it?

Yeah, the particles are coming out in a super concentrated there. So whatever’s coming out of that circle there is basically going to be huge by the time it gets to the cloud.

And so the goal with this test was they spent years building this sprayer that can use really high pressured air to smash salt particles into super small bits, about 1,700th the size of a human hair.

What they didn’t know, until this week, and they’re trying to find out right now, once you spray it, do those aerosols that are so finely tuned stay that size? In theory, they should.

What they don’t know is, things like wind and humidity and temperature could potentially cause them to coagulate, to regroup, which would throw the whole thing off. If the aerosols you’re shooting into clouds are too big, you can backfire the whole purpose. You can wreck what you’re trying to do because you make clouds less reflective, not more reflective.

So the whole goal of the experiment is, OK, can they make the spray just so, so that even in outdoor conditions, the aerosols that are so finely sized remain the size you want them to be. And that’s what they’re trying to find out.

And you watched the actual test of this. What did you see? What happened?

Those instruments are emitting a slight hum.

So operating the sprayer is not straightforward.

And they’re filling the tanks with the salt water that’ll be used to produce the mist.

There was somebody crouched on the control deck, the panel of instruments at the side of the sprayer. So I went over and tried to sit next to him and watch him as he turned a series of knobs and careful sequence.

OK. Yeah, everybody, we’re going to run some air. So the — ... We need two minutes here just to have power on this.

And after a series of tests to make sure the valves were clear —

OK, ear protection, please.

— finally the moment came, and he got an all clear over his walkie-talkie. And he turned on the water —

Water on, copy, over.

— and the air.

[COMPRESSOR ACTIVATING]

Since the sound of the compressor pushes pressurized air through the sprayer, it’s making a dull, throbbing sensation. You can feel it a little bit through the deck of the ship.

We all had ear protectors. And even with the ear protectors, it was really loud. And then you can almost feel the spray bursting out of this machine and watch it travel really hundreds of feet down the deck of the aircraft carrier.

OK, water off, fan off. Good job.

Awesome, guys, you’re done. Thank you. Excellent.

First test is done.

My first signal that things have gone well was I looked up when the spraying machine was turned off and saw some scientists high-fiving down the deck.

What’d you think?

It’s beautiful.

Is it what you thought it would be?

It’s better. And I’m optimistic that it will tell us a lot about what these things do. This made me really optimistic.

And the idea is to do several short bursts like that through the day?

And everyone seemed really excited that this thing they’d worked on for years was finally happening in this really important outdoor test.

OK, so it sounds like this test was a success.

Yeah, they stressed that they need a lot of time to really go over the results. They’ll be doing this test again and again in different weather conditions. But the initial reaction seemed positive. They seemed to think that the numbers they were getting were what they were hoping to see.

And so now the goal is, can they maintain the right size aerosols even in different conditions down the deck of this aircraft carrier? That’ll give them some confidence that if they decided one day to try and do this on the open ocean to actually brighten clouds, they’d have the ability to do it.

So, Chris, if all of this works, how and when do these researchers anticipate that this would actually be used?

Well, here’s a great example. In the month of February, a version of this testing was also happening in Australia, off the Coast of Australia, where researchers were testing whether marine cloud brightening could be used to cool the ocean just a little bit around the Great Barrier Reef.

Really high ocean temperatures are causing bleaching of that coral reef. The idea was, could they use marine cloud brightening to save some of those reefs from dying? And that’s probably a good idea of the fairly localized situation, where you could, in theory if you do it right, have a fairly quick degree of cooling that could maybe try to avert or mitigate something pretty acute like a heat wave or a stretch of warm weather that would kill coral. But the science is probably too new at this point to talk about the right situations to use it. Those conversations are all down the road as researchers look at these and other ideas for what they could do if things get really bad.

We’ll be right back.

So, Chris, when I think about solutions to climate change, it usually involves these very hard things we need to do, like, change the way we live, the way we drive, what we eat. We need these international treaties. We need carbon taxes regulation. There’s lots of hard stuff, and we haven’t gotten that far.

But here you’ve just told me about this technology that, if it ends up working, could actually help cool the planet without anyone needing to do any of these hard things. It sounds great.

It does sound great. Now, we’ve got to say, first of all that whenever anybody working on this stuff talks about it, the first thing they say is this is not an alternative to reducing emissions. This is looking for ways to buy time as we try to cut emissions. There’s no way to really deal with climate change that doesn’t entail burning less fossil fuel and quickly.

But yes, in addition to brightening clouds, there’s other ways to try to bounce more sunlight back into space and other ideas. My colleague David Gelles wrote the first piece in our series looking the idea of removing carbon dioxide directly from the air, reversing our past emissions.

Other ideas include finding ways to suck up more of the CO2 in the oceans. There’s even ideas that my colleague Cara Buckley covered of could we build a sort of a giant parasol way out in space that would reflect or scatter more of the sunlight and prevent some of that sunlight from even reaching the Earth in the first place?

So there’s a huge number of ideas that until very recently seemed just so bizarre and/or so expensive and/or so dangerous that they were hardly worth pursuing seriously. And what’s changed really quickly in the last really year or two is all of a sudden those ideas have switched from being too wild to spend much time on to being so important because the situation is so dire that we can’t not look at them. And that’s the pivot that my team has been trying to cover.

And what characterizes all these initiatives is that rather than reducing our own emissions, we’re now trying to intervene in the climate in a proactive way, engineering the climate in a way.

Yes, and you hear the phrase geoengineering to describe these ideas collectively. And what people who research this will stress is, we’re already geoengineering. For more than a century, we’ve been geoengineering in the sense of putting climate changing pollution into the atmosphere that’s caused the planet to change by trapping more heat in the atmosphere. So the question is, do we want to deliberately geoengineer in a way that will ease that pressure rather than just making it worse?

Of course, there some controversy attached to this. And there are some pretty valid concerns about what the consequences might be if we keep on pursuing these ideas.

And why are they controversial?

Well, the first concern that you hear is this idea of moral hazard, that if people come to think that there are ways of addressing climate change that don’t require them to change their lifestyle or sacrifice conveniences or change the kinds of cars they drive or how their power is generated that they will lose interest in those tough changes. And the momentum, such as it is, towards cutting emissions will fade even more. But we don’t know yet whether politicians or governments or companies or just people will misuse these ideas to try to shirk the harder work of reducing the amount of greenhouse gases we emit.

Another really important argument you hear is, OK, side effects. Do we really know what would happen if we tried these things? Marine cloud brightening is one of those situations where there are known unknowns and unknown unknowns, as they say.

The known unknowns are, well, what would happen to things like ocean circulation? What would happen to precipitation? What would happen to the effect on the amount of energy reaching the ocean? What would happen to the fisheries industry? We don’t really know, and researchers are trying to find out, what those effects might be.

Then there are the unknown unknowns. If you start deliberately changing the cloud system, well, what else might happen that we haven’t anticipated? Do you move the location of where rainfall happens? Do you perhaps upset the monsoon cycle in India? Do you change the ability to grow food in parts of the world?

So if you do this at a bigger scale, the consequences of those potential side effects get more and more severe. And I talked to environmentalists who said that’s a real concern. You just can’t model those risks. And you, to a degree, by pursuing this, have to accept that risk is real and almost roll the dice.

And I guess much like climate change, where you have a group of countries that is most responsible for CO2 emissions that have caused the global warming and then a whole other group of countries that are probably suffering the worst consequences, even though they haven’t contributed to those emissions nearly as much, you might see a situation where this kind of interference with the climate at the initiative of some countries, presumably the wealthy countries that have that technology, would then have unintended consequences in countries that have no control over this. So that’s tricky.

That’s right. And that takes us to a third category of concerns, which is, OK, let’s assume that things are bad enough, that collectively societies want to take those risks of those side effects. Well, then who chooses, who decides when we get to that point? Is there even a mechanism that would allow you to get informed consent from everybody who’d be affected?

And if these would affect everybody, it’s hard to imagine how you would build a governance mechanism that would allow you to say, before we push the button, are we sure everybody is OK with this? The only counter to all of these concerns is compared to what? And this is the point that researchers make.

OK, this is dangerous. OK, it presents challenges, but compared to what? Their point is, don’t compare it to a situation where everything’s fine. Compare it to a situation we’re actually in, where the trajectory of global warming is so serious and isn’t looking like it’ll get better any time soon. Well, compared to those risks, how do these risks compare?

And the question is, would you rather have a world of basically uncontrolled warming? And we have an idea of what that brings, wildfires and drought and sea level rise and storms and diseases. Is that better than some of these more perhaps controlled risks associated with deliberately tinkering with the environment?

So it’s almost like pick your poison. What sort of threats do you want to embrace? And that’s the overwhelming dilemma that we face with this technology.

In a way, what it makes me think, is that these crazy initiatives that we’ve been hearing about from you are yes, they’re testament to our failure in a way to combat climate change so far, because they’re such a last resort, really, such as an act of desperation. But at the same time, it seems like this urgency has actually unleashed a lot of energy and money to tackle the problem.

Yeah, and there’s good news in this. The good news is, the research we’re talking about demonstrates the really amazing capacity of scientists to come up with new ideas, develop new technologies, test them quickly, and at least build some options.

So if there’s any rays of hope around climate change, it’s that humanity’s capacity to innovate and find new ideas is almost endless. So the question is not, are we pursuing the wrong research ideas? The question is, can we find good ideas fast enough to avert the really serious consequences of climate change that we’re already facing?

Chris, I just remember that scientist we heard in the tape from your visit. And she was so excited. And she said that she was really optimistic. I wonder, how are you feeling?

I think the frustration that you’ll hear among climate reporters, and I’m in this group, is that most people seem not to appreciate the severity of the situation that we’re in. There seems to be a view that we’re dealing with this. People are buying electric cars, and we’re getting more solar power and wind power. And things are going the right way, and this will be OK.

Things are not going the right way. Not only are we on the wrong trajectory in terms of emissions, we are so far away from being on the right trajectory for emissions that it’s hard to imagine us cutting emissions globally at a rate anywhere near fast enough to avoid almost unbearable consequences of global warming. So that’s the downside.

[MUSIC PLAYING] Here’s the good news, though. I do think, and this again I think is a view among other climate reporters, the capacity of scientists and of companies to change track and to find new products and apply new ideas is really impressive. It just doesn’t feel like there’s a connection yet between the urgency of the situation and the way people and companies and governments are responding.

And so I guess if the question is, how I feel about this? I am constantly amazed at the ingenuity of the researchers I come across in my job every day. What I don’t yet know about is whether or not society will move fast enough to adopt and apply those ideas before the conditions that we face from climate change become almost unbearable.

Well, Chris, on this cautiously optimistic note, thank you very much.

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Today’s episode was produced by Michael Simon Johnson, Eric Krupke, Luke Vander Ploeg and Rachelle Bonja. It was edited by Patricia Willens, contains original music by Rowan Niemisto, Elisheba Ittoop, and Marion Lozano, and was engineered by Chris Wood. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly.

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Decades of efforts to cut carbon emissions have failed to significantly slow the rate of global warming, so scientists are now turning to bolder approaches.

Christopher Flavelle, who writes about climate change for The Times, discusses efforts to engineer our way out of the climate crisis.

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Christopher Flavelle , who covers how the United States tries to adapt to the effects of climate change for The New York Times.

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