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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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Feb 12, 2023

When other States can sign their people's freedom to the dustbin, Florida stood strongly as freedom's linchpin.

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Jan 31, 2023

All books have to be free of pornography. They also cannot include any issues of discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin.

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Jan 25, 2023

I think we need to get some new blood in the RNC. I like what Harmeet Dhillon has said about getting the RNC out of D.C.

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Jan 19, 2023

Florida's Republican led government is blocking a high school AP course, advanced placement course on African American studies, alleging it was, 'inexplicably contrary to Florida law' and other broad things like it, 'significantly lacks…

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Jan 18, 2023

We find this AP course doesn't pass our muster. Please come back with us with another course.

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Jan 18, 2023

The content of this course is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.

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Dec 17, 2022

My message is, the vaccines protect you. Get vaccinated.

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Nov 15, 2022

People just need to chill out a little bit on some of this stuff. I mean, seriously, we just ran an election.

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Nov 12, 2022

We will never ever surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke goes to die!

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Nov 5, 2022

America needs strong leadership and desperately, that's why I am endorsing Joe O'Dea for U.S. Senate.

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Nov 5, 2022

I think Republicans are going to win the House and the Senate. I think they are going to do both.

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Oct 23, 2022

I know that Charlie's interested in talking about 2024 and Joe Biden but I just want to make things very, very clear the only worn-out old donkey I'm looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Crist.

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Oct 6, 2022

So, first of all, our program that we did is a voluntary relocation program.

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Oct 6, 2022

Unfortunately, there's a lot of folks that come across. Where do they want to end up? A lot want to come to -- because, everyone wants to come to Florida. And so, we've worked, on innovative ways, to be able to protect, the State of…

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Oct 3, 2022

The State will review everything about this storm and that should include the timing of the Lee County evacuations.

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Oct 3, 2022

His political stunt has sparked a criminal investigation in Bexar County, Texas led by the sheriff there and it leads to lawsuits.

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Oct 3, 2022

It’s been nearly three weeks since Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida flew almost 50 unsuspecting Venezuelan migrants including children from Texas to Florida, and then drop them off in an island off the coast of Massachusetts.

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Oct 2, 2022

But, eventually, Mother Nature bats last.

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