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Ron DeSantis: “You've got a lot of people in your profession who wax poetically for weeks and weeks about how Florida was going to be…”

On the recordJune 29, 2020
You've got a lot of people in your profession who wax poetically for weeks and weeks about how Florida was going to be just like New York. Wait two weeks, Florida's going to be next, just like Italy. Wait two weeks. Well, hell, we're eight weeks away from that and it hasn't happened.

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Governor DeSantis defends Florida's handling of the pandemic against predictions of a crisis similar to New York.

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