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Ron DeSantis

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Ron DeSantis is an American politician currently serving as the Governor of Florida. A member of the Republican Party, he has been in office since January 2019. DeSantis previously served as a U.S. Representative for Florida's 6th congressional district from 2013 to 2018. His tenure as governor has been marked by a focus on conservative policies, including education reform, environmental issues, and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. DeSantis has gained national attention for his stances on various issues, including his support for the Trump Presidential Library in Miami and his administration's initiatives on wildlife management.

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Aug 30, 2023

People really made good decisions, protected themselves. Also, this forecast turned out to be accurate.

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Aug 29, 2023

Although, Governor DeSantis, if you're watching, if you'd like to send us some of those public structures you sent down during Ian, we'd be happy to have it, but I mean, all kidding aside, we've got what we need.

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Aug 28, 2023

You really have got to go now. Now is the time. If you don't, if you stay hunkered down tonight, it's going to be too nasty tomorrow morning to be able to do it.

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Aug 22, 2023

We are better than what the Democrats are selling. We are not going to allow abortion all the way up till birth.

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Aug 21, 2023

I am not going to bow down to the altar of political correctness.

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Aug 21, 2023

The only worn out old donkey I'm looking to put out the pasture is Charlie Crist.

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Aug 21, 2023

Andrew's a failed mayor, he's presided over a crime ridden city.

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Aug 19, 2023

A movement can't be about the personality of one individual. The movement has got to be about what are you trying to achieve on behalf of the American people. And that's got to be based in principle. Because if you're not rooted in…

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Aug 19, 2023

You could be the most conservative person since sliced bread. Unless you’re kissing his rear end, they will somehow call you a RINO.

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Aug 17, 2023

I'm excited about doing it because most of what you do in this process is filtered through media and seldom do you get the opportunity to speak directly to this many people.

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Aug 16, 2023

Defend Donald Trump and absentia in response to a Chris Christie attack.

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Aug 12, 2023

If he was a Republican he would be in jail a long time ago.

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Aug 9, 2023

We had a prosecutor in Orlando. She wouldn't prosecute cases. She's putting people out back on the street. And this one guy shot two police officers because he should have been in jail, and he's out there. So I removed her from her post…

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Aug 5, 2023

You will also hear more from DeSantis about this. Not because DeSantis wants to be talking about it, but because their new strategy now, as part of this post-campaign reset, is to get DeSantis out talking more, doing more media, doing more…

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Aug 3, 2023

I've said for many weeks now, I don't think it's in the best interest of the country to have a former president that's almost 80 years old go to prison. And just like Nixon -- or Ford pardoned Nixon, you know, sometimes you've got to put…

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Jul 31, 2023

While I've seen reports, I have not read the indictment. I do, though, believe we need to enact reform so that Americans have the right to remove cases from Washington, D.C. to their home districts.

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Jul 30, 2023

When he hits me with the juvenile insults, I think that helps me. I don't think voters like that. I don't think it's effective. So I actually don't mind it at all. I think it's just a reminder why there are so many millions of voters who…

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Jul 27, 2023

If the election becomes a referendum on what document was left by the toilet at Mar-a-Lago, we are not going to win.

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Jul 25, 2023

What is wokeness? To say that black people have a right to be free, and not be shot down by police or any other people -- that's what woke means?

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