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NextImg:DeSantis blames Disney's 'woke' agenda for low park attendance

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said Monday that he believes that Disney's "woke" agenda is "impacting" ticket sales to their theme parks.

Recent reports show unusually short lines at "empty" Disney theme parks this summer.

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"I think it is impacting parents who want to take their kids to Disney," DeSantis said to The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show.


As a father of young children, the Florida governor said he believes children should be able to go to school and watch cartoons "without having an agenda shoved down their throat."

He added that the rank-and-file Disney workers support his efforts based on 2022 electoral data from the counties surrounding Disney World in the Orlando, Florida, area.

“The sad part about it, guys, is when we were having this fight with Disney in 2022, most of the employees in their Orlando area theme parks agreed with us,” DeSantis said.

“I won Osceola County for the first time a Republican has done in a generation by 7 percentage points, which is where the majority of Disney employees live,” the 2024 Republican presidential candidate said.

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In addition to Disney’s theme parks showing unprecedentedly low traffic, critics have noted that political backlash is carrying over to Disney’s franchise movie Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, calling it a box office flop.

Indiana Jones was not the first of Disney's high-budget theatrical misfires of 2023. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, The Little Mermaid, and Elemental all suffered at the box office this year.