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Christian and Bridget Ziegler's political visibility is deteriorating, with the Republican couple just one step behind Ron and Casey DeSantis.
The problem is that it turned out that he, the Republican president in the state, is under investigation for the rape of a woman with whom he had sexual relations along with his wife, co-founder of Moms for Liberty. a group of anti-gay and ultra-conservative mothers who are very close to the state's governor, who is running for the White House.
The downward spiral for Christian and Bridget Ziegler began on November 30, when the nonprofit Florida Center for Government Accountability released excerpts from a Sarasota police investigation into him, including a search warrant at his home. of the couple.
The Republican politician admitted the menage a trois and the relations with the woman, said they were consensual and denied any violence, but his reputation is now at risk.
Police documents indicate the couple and woman had planned to meet that day, but Bridget Ziegler was not present. Instead, he showed up to the appointment and raped her, according to the woman's complaint. Calls for his resignation from Florida's Grand Old Party leaders, including DeSantis, were immediate. But Christian Ziegler doesn't seem to want to give up.
“We have a country to save,” he declared in the final hours, “and I will not allow false accusations to put this mission in the dock while I wait for the trial to conclude.”
In the message, the Florida Republican leader also mentioned his wife: “My family is a rock. My wife is behind me 150%.” Although she is not currently involved in the investigation, Bridget Ziegler has a contrary opinion to her husband decided to take a step back and resign from the Sarasota County School Board.
Beyond personal decisions, after the scandal broke out, the 41-year-old was criticized, especially in her environment, by advocates of respectability and “anti-woke” values, i.e. DeSanti's principles of combating the left and anti-racist culture are the maximum expression. It was the governor of Florida who gave her career a major boost when he publicly endorsed her candidacy for school board last year, declaring, “There should be a person like her in every district.” And Bridget Ziegler was one of the people who who worked with the Republican candidate to draft the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” law in schools and other controversial regulations on banned books and banned topics. Now only DeSantis could save Bridget and Christian from political oblivion, but with the presidential election just around the corner and Donald Trump challenging conservatives, there is little hope for the Zieglers.
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