'Absolutely egregious!' Florida official hits out at plans to BAN school books - 'It won't end well...'

The group stands against the conservative group, Moms for Liberty, an organisation that advocates against school curricula that mention LGBT rights and race and ethnicity.

Jenkins made national headlines for defeating Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich for school board by nearly 10 points, in a district that Donald Trump won by double digits in 2016.

Now, she is calling out Moms For Liberty's campaign of banning books across schools and "misinformation" surrounding schools curriculum.

She told GB News: "The outright attack on our LGBTQ students and staff was really kind of the catalyst of all of the chaos in the state of Florida, intentionally spreading misinformation and disinformation about the rights and liberties of our students and staff, fear-mongering, pretending that students are at risk.

"The book banning you know - any country that studies history, when we start burning books and banning books, it doesn't end well for us. The state of Florida leads in the country when it comes to book banning.

"Moms for Liberty is one of those organisations that started and it actually started right here in my county, banning books about LGBTQ characters, banning books written by LGBTQ authors, books about the terrible history, African American history."

According to Jenkins, one of the most "egregious" examples involving the teaching of slavery caught the attention of Vice President and Democrat Nominee Kamala Harris.

She said: "It's terrifying because the reality is, what they're trying to do is to scare our educators into pushing only the beliefs and the ideas that the Government wants them to push and believe. What we have in the state of Florida that's really scary is they started creating a list of books that have been banned across the state.

"They don't claim that they need to be banned everywhere, but they're identifying what books have been banned. Really what it's doing is it's trying to encourage other counties to follow suit when it comes to that.

"One of the most egregious things that has happened was the state of Florida changed its standards for African American history to have a benchmark to teach students that slaves benefited from being enslaved. It's absolutely egregious, and it's just continuing to happen. [Vice President] Harris came and flew down within 24 hours when this took place.

"I don't think there is a benefit, but in their eyes, I believe that they're looking for ways to legislate whose race, whose religion, whose culture values more, and to them it's white Christian nationalists."

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Jenkins said the position has landed her as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ top target for Democratic officials to defeat in 2024. However, she said she thinks the controversial governor is losing his grip in the state.

She added: "We've only been around for four months officially now, but we were able to pull off those wins 15 out of 17 in the state of Florida. But at the exact same time, what makes that important is Moms for Liberty endorsed 14 candidates and only won three seats.

"Ron DeSantis endorsed 23 candidates and only one six. So that's really sending a really clear message of what's happening here in the state. DeSantis endorsed in seats that he thought were going to be easily winnable for him in very red districts. So it is a very clear sign that they're losing their grip there."

GB News has approached Moms for Liberty for a comment.