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PITTSBURGH—While it is always unsettling for a political movement when its party loses power, the reality is that the movement’s coalition doesn’t necessarily collapse or disappear. Sometimes, it even gets stronger. Coalitions last beyond a candidate’s or party’s loss because the coalition is always more about the people who are in it than about any single person.
Coalitions are also often about a sense of place. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis understands this. His message in his visit to this Pennsylvania city, along with neighboring Youngstown, Ohio, shows he recognizes that attendees at his rallies are not just interested in him; they are interested in how well he “gets” this sense of place that is everything to conservative populists.
This explains why so many at his speech welcomed his message, even while many reporters, as usual, misunderstood it.
Tickets to DeSantis’s Rust Belt events—all coordinated by Turning Point USA and all free—were gobbled up within moments of their release. His visit here was for the Republican nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano. In Youngstown, he appeared on behalf of Senate candidate J. D. Vance.
DeSantis has lived in Florida for most of his life outside of his time spent in the military and college, but he has roots in both of these areas. His father is from Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, and his mother is from Youngstown. The pair met while attending Youngstown State University. At the beginning of his 40-minute speech, he showed a photo of him as a toddler dressed from head to toe in black and gold Pittsburgh Steelers gear.
“Not a lot of people know I was born in the late ’70s to a Steelers fan,” he said as the crowd went wild.
“I think they had just won the Super Bowl probably then,” he said, laughing at the image on the screen.
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