DeSantis is losing support in Florida: ‘I wouldn’t call him a lame duck, but there’s a shelf life’

Ron DeSantis could be losing support in Florida after abandoning unpopular plans to build golf courses on state parks and since losing the Republican presidential nomination to Donald Trump, according to reports.

The governor faced huge backlash recently to a proposal to roll out golf courses and hotels in Florida’s state parks – and now some Republicans have indicated DeSantis could be running out of road.

“I wouldn’t call him a lame duck, but there’s a shelf life,” one Republican consultant in Tallahassee anonymously told Politico.

DeSantis dropped out of the presidential race in January after coming in second at theIowa caucuses and ahead of the Republican primary in New Hampshire, where he was only polling single digits.

Setbacks in his home state could impact his anticipated run for the presidency in 2028, according to the outlet.

James Miller, a political consultant who once worked for the Republican Party of Florida, suggested to Politico that DeSantis could be losing some influence.

“I don’t think the backlash about parks was about him being a lame duck,” he said. “But I also do think that when the governor was tone-deaf in the past, people would go along with it. And now they’re positioning themselves for their political futures and you won’t see them do that.”

The governor came under fire after school board candidates he backed in the primary earlier this month underperformed. And he has faced fierce criticism from Randy Fine – the legislature’s only Jewish Republican – for a trip he took to Ireland because it recognizes Palestine as a country.

In a blow to DeSantis, Finebacked Donald Trump for the presidency, claiming  the “choice as Jews is simple…When it comes to action, Donald Trump has never let us down.”