President Donald Trump has set his eyes on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as his biggest opponent in 2024, even though the governor hasn’t declared his candidacy.
Trump said DeSantis closed Florida “for a long period of time” for COVID. He also claimed the DeSantis team is “trying to rewrite history” regarding his response to COVID.
Except…no.
DeSantis responded today (emphasis mine):
DeSANTIS: “I roll out of bed, I have people attacking me from all angles. It’s been happening for many, many years. And if you look it, the good thing about it, though, is like, if you take a crisis situation like Covid, you know, the good thing about it is when you’re an elected executive, you have to make all kinds of decisions, you gotta steer that ship, and the good thing is, is that the people are able to render a judgment on that, whether they reelect you’re not. And I’m happy to say, you know, in my case not only did we win re-election, we won with the highest percentage of the vote that any Republican governor candidate has in the history of the state of Florida.(Applause)We won by the largest raw vote margin, over 1.5 million votes, than any governor candidate has ever had in Florida history. In fact, we almost double the previous record, which I think was like 780,000 vote margin. So, what I would just say is, that verdict has been rendered by the people of the state of Florida.”
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