Liberals Shouldn't Fear Ron DeSantis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : During his 2012 congressional campaign, DeSantis expressed support for privatizing Social Security and Medicare.
57% : The RSC's 2013 fiscal vision would have raised the age of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare to 70, slowed the growth of Social Security benefits, and ended Medicare as we'd known it, transforming the program from a health-insurance entitlement to a stipend that wouldn't necessarily increase with rising health-care costs.
57% : In the decade since that proposal, the percentage of U.S. voters who rely on Social Security and Medicare has only grown.
53% : And the issues on which he is most vulnerable -- Medicare, Social Security, and abortion rights -- are far more nationally salient than his crusades against "wokeness" in public schools.
47% : Meanwhile, DeSantis's record on abortion is poised to grow more politically vexing.
45% : Regardless, it is doubtlessly true that there is considerably more popular support for banning abortion after 15 weeks than there is for doing so earlier in a pregnancy.
44% : Whereas the House GOP of 2013 argued unabashedly for shrinking Medicare and Social Security, today's Republican Caucus has already vowed to spare cuts to those programs in any debt-ceiling deal.
40% : At present, Florida bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest.
39% : Before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, polls often found plurality support for banning abortion after 15 weeks.
35% : In last year's midterms, voters consistently listed abortion as one of their top issues.

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