‘Whether he deserved it or not, his popularity did not increase as almost every other governor in the countries did — even in, ironically, many of the states that had much higher death counts than Florida,‘’ Jewett said, including New York and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “But that’s because those governors took visible, active steps that the public wanted to see. … And when Governor DeSantis was much slower in locking down the state, he paid a political price for that.”