Ron de Santis announces presidential candidacy

Ron de Santis announces presidential candidacy

The governor of Florida, Ron de Santis, has officially announced that he will take part in the US presidential election in 2024 and the greatest opponent of former President Donald Trump will be in the republicans' reports.

In contrast to Trump, de Santis has pushed a pro-crypto policy ahead several times in the past and has been decisive against digital central bank currencies (CBDCS).

de Santis would protect Bitcoin

de Santis announced his plans to run in one in a run Twitter spaces together with the owner of the platform, Elon Musk, on Wednesday. Musk has expressed regretted that he had voted for Joe Biden in the election 2020, but was also not interested in Trump because he wanted a "normal person as president"

Both Musk and de Santis found a common basis in their resistance against the "Woke" ideology and its support for free expression. You are also both crypto-friendly While Trump Bitcoin repeatedly as " fraud ."

When asked about his opinion on the regulatory situation of cryptocurrencies in the United States, de Santis said that citizens "have every right to use Bitcoin" and that they would speak against any law that prohibits the use of Bitcoin.

"As president, we will protect the ability to do things like Bitcoin," said de Santis. "I just don't itch to check everything that people do in this area."

de Santis repeated the comments from other Republicans who support cryptocurrencies, and agreed that the bidet government is trying to do this kill the crypto industry exchange stablecoin emittenter and crypto-supporting banks Style = "Font-Weight: 400"> Companies like Coinbase are desperate in search of clarity about the traffic rules around crypto in the United States.

"The current regime obviously has to mention Bitcoin, and if it continues for another four years, they will probably destroy it in the end," he added.

At Bitcoin Miami 2023 Last week the democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy pledged own and use. The mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, is himself a Bitcoin believer and believes offers advantages about the fiat currency system.

No CBDCs for de Santis

In contrast, the white house of bidges has expressed interest in the implementation of a potential CBDC in order to "bring the US financial infrastructure into the digital age ... without the risks or the irrational exuberance that bring crypto assets with it".

similar to the Republican congress members Tom Emmer and ted cruz de Santis is a decisive opponent of CBDCs. In March he led a law a law prohibited prevent such a technology in Florida.

"I consider it a massive transmission of power for individual consumers to a central authority, and I don't think that is good for a free society," he said.

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