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- Florida's legislature recently restricted which books can be taught in classrooms.
- At the same time, school administrators in Texas banned hundreds of books about race and sexuality.
- Polling says books bans are popular with most GOP respondents, but it could backfire in 2024.
State GOP leaders have enacted laws or pushed for banning children from accessing certain books in school classrooms and libraries, and polling shows banning books is popular among Republicans. But the issue could come back to haunt the GOP in the 2024 general election, with book bans remain unpopular with the general electorate.