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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign isn’t going well, so he’s trying to get back to what’s worked for him in the past: ugly racist culture wars over education. DeSantis is desperate to distract from things like a campaign event that drew just 30 people even after the price was slashed from $50 to $1. He’s clinging to the uproar over Florida’s Black history standards in hopes that it will make him once again the champion of anti-wokeness who looked, just months ago, like he was poised to seriously challenge Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination.
DeSantis is now challenging Vice President Kamala Harris to meet with him and Dr. William Allen, one of the architects of Florida’s new Black history standards. Harris has been an outspoken critic of the guidance emphasizing “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” But what’s important to DeSantis is that the first Black vice president and first woman vice president is despised by the Republican base, and he thinks he can win favor by going after her.
