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Marion McKeone: Ron DeSantis’ Florida is where ‘woke’ goes to die, and crazy goes to live

Florida has always been a strange place and the butt of jokes but under its current governor it has become so strange that it’s hard to even satirise

Disney steering a straight line between financial woes and Republican attacks

Governor Ron DeSantis is gunning for the centenarian entertainment and theme park giant after it rejected his ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. But returned chief executive Bob Iger is shedding ballast and boosting share prices, making it watertight once more

Lucinda Creighton: Biden confounds his critics while Trump’s comeback plan suffers a blow

With a number of Donald Trump’s picks coming unstuck in the US midterm elections, there are many in the Republican Party who will be hoping that the second coming of Trump has been irreparably damaged

Stormy relations: DeSantis and Biden put mutual loathing aside to deal with hurricane response

Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis, who likes to be known as ‘Trump with a brain’, and the US president know that competence in dealing with natural disasters can win swing voters in the contest to be next US president

Marion McKeone: DeSantis emerges as the new GOP pretender as Trump’s grip loosens

Described by party strategists as ‘Trump with a brain’, Ron DeSantis has emerged for Republicans as a creditable contender to the former US president, but he is also widely perceived as lacking in personality or charisma