DeSan­tis slams elim­i­na­tion of Sen­ate dress code: ‘We need to be lift­ing up our stan­dards’

Gov. Ron DeSan­tis (R‑FL) crit­i­cized the Sen­ate and Sen. John Fet­ter­man (D‑PA) over a recent dress code pol­i­cy the Sen­ate has revised.
The pol­i­cy that was recent­ly revised allows sen­a­tors to choose what they wear on the Sen­ate floor, which will like­ly ben­e­fit Fet­ter­man, who is well known for appear­ing in the Sen­ate wear­ing a hood­ie and gym shorts over busi­ness attire. DeSan­tis, who did not men­tion Fet­ter­man by name, crit­i­cized the Sen­ate’s revi­sion of its dress code “because you got this guy from Penn­syl­va­nia” with “a lot of prob­lems.”
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“Like how he got elect­ed, well, he got elect­ed because they didn’t want the alter­na­tive, but he wears like sweat­shirts and hood­ies and shorts, and that’s his thing,” DeSan­tis said. “So he would cam­paign in that, which is your pre­rog­a­tive, right? I mean, if that’s what you want to do. But to show up in the Unit­ed States Sen­ate with that and not have the decen­cy to put on prop­er attire, I think it’s dis­re­spect­ful to the body, and I think the fact that the Sen­ate changed the rules to accom­mo­date that, I think speaks very poor­ly to how they con­sid­er that.”

DeSan­tis added that peo­ple should be “lift­ing up our stan­dards in this coun­try” instead of “dumb­ing down” the stan­dards a …