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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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Nov 2, 2021

Well, I think people are rebelling against what the Democratic Party stands for nowadays.

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Nov 2, 2021

When you look at the Biden, the Brandon administration in terms of...

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Oct 29, 2021

They’re a heck of a lot of students and a heck of a lot of families throughout the state of Florida that are better off today.

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Oct 27, 2021

These school districts are saying no, you have to wear a mask even if your parent doesn’t want that. If these entities are going to violate state law and take away parents’ rights, obviously there are, you know, it’s the way it works…

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Oct 24, 2021

In Florida, our policy is very clear. We`re going to have a special session, and we`re going to say, nobody should lose their job based off these injections.

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Oct 24, 2021

It's about a morale issue trying to sort of take officers from the cities, saying it's not a mandate issue.

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Oct 24, 2021

We`re actually actively working to recruit out-of-state law enforcement, because we do have needs in our police and our sheriff`s departments.

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Sep 29, 2021

If you guys look what`s going on in Australia right now, you know, they`re enforcing -- after a year and a half, they`re still enforcing lockdowns by the military.

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Sep 29, 2021

You guys, look what`s going on in Australia right now. You know, they`re forcing after a year and a half, they`re still enforcing lockdowns by the military and that`s not a free country. It`s not a free country at all.

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Sep 21, 2021

Why don't you do your job? Why don't you get this border secure? And until you do that, I don't want to hear a blip about COVID from you.

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Sep 16, 2021

The fight about making sure Florida is not shortchanged on these monoclonals, that`s going to be front and center for us. We want to make sure that any Floridian that needs this is able to get it, so we`re going to fight like hell to make…

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Sep 15, 2021

He’s built his brand, saying he just won a federal case, an appeal, in which parents of disabled kids were suing, saying, your mask mandate ban could put our kids at risk of dying, and he said, so what?

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Sep 15, 2021

He`s built his brand, saying he just won a federal case, an appeal, in which parents of disabled kids were suing, saying, your mask mandate ban could put our kids at risk of dying, and he said, so what?

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Sep 13, 2021

Thousands and thousands of people could be losing their jobs not because they haven’t performed well, in fact many of them performed heroically, but simply because of a very intrusive and I think illegal policy.

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Sep 13, 2021

If government agency in the state of Florida forces a vaccine as a condition to employment that violates Florida law and you will face -- and you will face a $5,000 fine for every single violation.

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Sep 12, 2021

If a government agency in the state of Florida forces a vaccine as a condition to employment, that violates Florida law, and you will face a $5,000 fine for every single violation. This is all political. It's all about using government and…

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Sep 10, 2021

It doesn’t affect me if you’re vaccinated. It’s just not true. It very much does.

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Sep 10, 2021

When we see elected officials violate the constitution, we have a responsibility to fight back. And that`s what we`re doing. And that`s what we`re going to do in Florida to combat what Joe Biden is trying to do with these unconstitutional…

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Sep 9, 2021

At the end of the day, though, it is what somebody -- it is about your health and whether you want that protection or not. It really doesn't impact me or anyone else.

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Sep 7, 2021

The vaccines have helped people ward off severe illness. It’s about your health and whether you want that protection or not. It really doesn’t impact me or anyone else.

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Sep 7, 2021

I`m pro-life. I welcome pro-life legislation. What they did in Texas was interesting. They have basically done this through private right of action.

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Sep 7, 2021

But what we found is, you know, in the trial courts in Tallahassee, State and Federal, we typically lose if there's a political component to it. But then in the Appeals Court, we almost always win.

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Aug 31, 2021

That`s just a totally false, partisan narrative. To try to say that doing reporting the way many other states do it and which is the most accurate is some type of problem, when it`s been something that`s been going on for a long time, is…

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Aug 30, 2021

If you're trying to restrict people, impose mandates, if you are trying to lock people down, I am standing in your way and I'm standing for the people of Florida.

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Aug 29, 2021

go ahead and let COVID in, and then take this Regeneron that just happens to benefit him politically.

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