DeSantis sought to ease any speculation from “supporters” that new Florida residents running from Democratic states could vote the same in Florida, claiming that the state has seen an increase in Republican voters.
“I’ve had more Republicans move into Florida than Democrats move into Florida, and so, that’s pretty significant,” DeSantis said Monday. “I think what that’s telling me is that people are very sensitive to the state governments that they live under. I think COVID opened a lot of people’s eyes because, literally, who your governor was, was the difference between your kid even being able to go to school at all.”
While suppressing any thought that Florida could see a political shift to the left anytime soon, DeSantis said there was some “cause for concern,” looking at recent trends of California-based companies relocating to Texas.
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“So, you’d have companies move from San Francisco to Austin, and they’d bring hundreds of employees with them. And those employees would vote the exact same way they voted that turned San Francisco into the dumpster fire that it is,” DeSantis said.
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DeSantis expressed fears that California voters could begin moving to Florida, saying they fail to make the connection between “Leftist" policies and the problems they left behind.
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“It's like Leftism, they will not draw the connection between their Leftist ideology and the destruction that’s all around them,” DeSantis said. “It is a problem because I do think there’s a class of voters who would come to Florida, and they would continue to vote the same way.”
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The Republican governor’s comments come as many high-profile companies and entrepreneurs in the technology industry have either expressed interest in or already have moved from California to Texas and Florida.
Several Big Tech companies have revealed their plans to leave Silicon Valley or build new branches in Texas, including Elon Musk, who moved Tesla’s headquarters from Palo Alto to Austin last year. Musk struck a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter on Monday and could decide to move the company’s San Francisco headquarters.
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In a since-deleted tweet earlier this month, Musk asked followers if the headquarters should become a “homeless shelter since no one shows up anyway,” according to Cal Matters.
Despite fewer California companies announcing a move to Florida, the Sunshine State ranked as the top state people moved to in 2021, according to a study by United Van Lines.
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