The file

Ron DeSantis

Republican · Governor of Florida · Florida · Spectrum score +69

Governor ·

Ron DeSantis is Governor of Florida in Florida. Political positions and ideology score +69 (Far right). DeSantis is the governor as a campaign.

College: Yale University, B.A. 2001 · Harvard Law School, J.D. 2005
Spouse: Casey DeSantis (m. 2010)
Children: Three
Résumé: Governor of Florida · 2019–
U.S. Representative · Florida-6 · 2013–2018
U.S. Navy JAG / prosecutor · 2004–2010

Net worth: $4.5M
Salary: $141,400
Before office: $300K
2026 raised: —
Years in office: 13

Where Ron stands on the spectrum

Ron DeSantis scores +69 on Spectrum’s left–right line (far right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +69 · Far right · economic +69 · social +73 · authoritarian +45

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

DeSantis is the governor as a campaign. The file is a man who picked a fight with the largest employer in his tourism economy, raised from the people who liked the fight, and now faces a term limit with a PAC that has not been told the race is over.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$4.5M

+1400% since taking office

Disclosure + book/PAC, 2025

Before office$300K

Now$4.5M

JAG and Congress were not the payday. The 2022 book, Never Back Down, and a PAC-that-thinks-it’s-a-White-House were.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $0
Cash on hand: $0

Top industries

Leadership PACs
Florida developers
Publishing

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Book and PAC. Term-limited. Funds, not a desk.

Disclosure midpoint, 2024–25 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$250K–$1.0M
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$75K–$300K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Joint	$250K–$1.0M
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Joint	$75K–$300K

Sum of ranges $325K–$1.3M · midpoint $813K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

Live · checked just now

New articles land here as they publish. Checking about every 12 seconds.

Conflicts

Disney fight as both policy and a donor-class split.
Term-limited in 2026 with a national apparatus still running.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +69
Social: +73
Authoritarian: +45
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+80
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+62
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+70
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+70
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+58
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+76
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+72
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+78
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+66
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+82
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+74
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+64
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.65

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

House NOMINATE
Gubernatorial record
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.