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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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Apr 30, 2021

The bill puts new restrictions on the use of drop boxes, adds new I.D. requirements to vote by mail and makes voters request absentee ballots more frequently.

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Apr 30, 2021

A voting rights rollback has just passed the legislature in Florida today that is even more draconian than what the Republicans did in Georgia.

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Apr 29, 2021

I mean, give me a break. This country has had more opportunity for more people than any country in the history of the world. And it doesn`t matter where you trace your ancestry from.

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Apr 29, 2021

Florida had the most transparent and efficient election anywhere in the country.

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Apr 25, 2021

It is the strongest anti-rioting, pro-law enforcement piece of legislation in the country. There’s just nothing even close.

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Apr 20, 2021

I don`t know what happened with this verdict. But if that`s something that can potentially happen where you basically have justice meted out because the jury is scared of what a mob may do -- again, I`m not saying that`s what happened…

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Apr 15, 2021

Congressman Gaetz here, who has been working really hard for the people of Northwest Florida.

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Apr 6, 2021

DeSantis argues that vaccine passports reduce individual freedom and would create two classes of citizens based on vaccination.

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Apr 5, 2021

Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, who banned private corporations, like the cruise industry, from doing the same thing.

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Apr 4, 2021

It`s wrong, it`s wrong, it`s a fake narrative, I just disabused you of the narrative and you don`t care about the facts because obviously I laid it out for you in way that is irrefutable.

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Mar 31, 2021

These are all scraggly looking, you know, Antifa types. They get their mugshot taken, and then they get released. And it's like a carousel on and on it goes. That's not going to happen here in Florida.

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Mar 31, 2021

If you are involved in a violent or disorderly assembly and you harm somebody. If you throw a brick and hit a police officer. You're going to jail.

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Mar 31, 2021

It's a prerogative of Governor Ron DeSantis, and it's his party's answer to last year's Black Lives Matter protests spawned, of course by the killing of George Floyd.

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Mar 31, 2021

You don`t want to create separate classes of citizens based on whether somebody received vaccine.

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Mar 30, 2021

We will not have COVID vaccines mandated in Florida. The flip side of that, though, with these vaccine passports is, it`s completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you…

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Mar 30, 2021

I think what you`re seeing is the natural cycle of this. I think it`s repeating itself year over year.

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Mar 4, 2021

There’s no transparency with the vaccine distribution strategy, right, at all.

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Mar 4, 2021

So just to be clear, okay, Florida’s governor, DeSantis, is the worst, okay? So we’re talking about the revocation of mask mandates without consulting the experts, try not even putting them in place in the first place.

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Mar 4, 2021

When you have only 30 percent of your people vaccinated and you're rolling back, absolutely.

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Mar 4, 2021

Florida's governor, DeSantis, is the worst, okay? So we're talking about the revocation of mask mandates without consulting the experts, try not even putting them in place in the first place.

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Mar 4, 2021

Florida got it right and the lockdown states got it wrong.

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Mar 4, 2021

Governor DeSantis has used his executive action to, on a whim, do pop-up clinics here and there, and this proportionately went to the communities with the wealthiest ZIP codes.

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Mar 4, 2021

DeSantis from the onset of this pandemic has made consistent decisions that prioritize profits and the economy over the public interests and the health and wellness of the population.

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Mar 2, 2021

For those of you who aren`t from Florida, welcome to our oasis of freedom.

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Feb 8, 2021

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis cares more about keeping the state open for business than about keeping people alive.

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