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DeSantis: “I earned 100 percent of the executive power, and I intended to use it to advance our agenda. We resolved to lead by conviction—not by polls. I have never taken an issue about any of these issues that I’ve championed since I’ve been governor.”
“We don’t do the polls. We do what is right.” An executive who governs instead of allowing himself to be governed by what the polls and the press say? That’s crazy.
“If you don’t have people around you that put the mission first and that believe in what you’re doing and don’t bring any other agenda to serving in the administration, you’re not going to be able to get this stuff executed properly.”
Hmmm. This sounds familiar.
Hmmm. This sounds familiar.
“I am not going to be like some of these Republicans that just sit around, they’re all defensive, they’re like potted plants, they don’t want to offend the media or offend the Democrats. No, we’re going on offense in the state of Florida, and we went on offense since day one.”
DeSantis talks about how they took his win and built on it: “We earned the highest percentage of the vote that any Republican candidate for governor has ever received in the history of the state of Florida.”
“We were able to flip Democrat counties—urban counties like Miami-Dade County and not only did we flip it, we won it by double digits.”
Worth contrasting this with Republican camps that have given up on moderates/independents/disaffected Democrats. They can actually be moved.
Worth contrasting this with Republican camps that have given up on moderates/independents/disaffected Democrats. They can actually be moved.
“We now have supermajorities in the Florida legislature. We were able to work to elect 29 conservative school board members to school boards across the state of Florida. We’ve even done things like flip county commissions. Palm Beach County now has a Republican county commission.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
DeSantis on covid: “When the world lost its mind, when common sense suddenly became an uncommon virtue, the state of Florida stood as a refuge of sanity. A citadel of freedom for people all over this country and across the world.” Cheers and shouting. I don’t think the attempts… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Shots fired: “We refused to let our state descend into some type of Faucian dystopia, where people’s livelihoods were destroyed and their freedoms were curtailed. We chose freedom over Faucism. We were not supported in making those decisions at the time by the bureaucracy, by… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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