
Governors opposed to draconian lockdowns increased margins of victory in 2022
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Anti-lockdown governors fared much better in their bids for re-election in 2022 than they did in 2018, winning by an average margin of 18.1 percentage points this year.
DeSantis provided perhaps the most stunning turnaround in 2022, winning re-election by 19.4 percentage points. The popular Republican governor could barely win his first bid for governor in 2018, winning by just 0.4 percentage points. Michael Lee is a writer at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @UAMichaelLee
The Florida governor was famously opposed to strict lockdown measures for much of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though he ordered a stay-at-home order in the early days of the pandemic on April 2, 2020, the DeSantis lifted the order just over a month later on May 4.
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