Thread by @CurtisHouck

.@RonDeSantis on crashing Twitter: "We had a huge audience. It did. It was the biggest it ever had. It did break the Twitter Space, and so we're really excited with the enthusiasm. But ultimately it's about the future of our country...We know the country is on the wrong track."

@RonDeSantis .@RonDeSantis to @TGowdySC: "Truth needs to be the foundation of everything we do, and common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue...We need to win again. As Republicans, we got to dispense with this culture of losing."

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis: "If we have another 4 yrs of the Biden administration, I think that some of the damage is going to be irreversible...You've got to be able to win and then when you get an office, you've got to be able to deliver results & I think that we have been able to do both"

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on inflation: "[O]verspending is driving inflation...You've seen the Federal Reserve print trillions and trillions of dollars...They said there wouldn't be inflation & yet, here we are. We need a Fed-focused on a stable dollar & don't...manipulate the...economy"

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC More @RonDeSantis on spending: "You have...seen a huge increase in what they call discretionary spending...Congress is spending levels that you and I could not fathom...Joe Biden is refusing to really do anything to try to limit how much money is being spent."

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on wokeism: "The woke-mind virus is basically a form of cultural Marxism...It's an attack on the truth...We have no choice but to wage a war on woke...Being willing to tell the truth & not being diluted by ideology...We have every right to be pushing back on" ESG

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on the NAACP: "[T]ypical political stunt...FL's crime rate's at a 50-year low. Compare that to...Chicago or Baltimore. I don't hear the NAACP talking about that..[P]eople who contributed to our record tourism have been board members of the NAACP...Phony narrative"

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on the DOJ: "No, I would not keep Chris Wray as director of the FBI...In terms of an [AG], you need somebody that's got a really strong background...The Washington Post is not going to like you...You will get attacked...[Y]ou got to wear that as a badge of honor"

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis: "DOJ & FBI have lost their way...They've been weaponzied against Americans...Republican presidents have accepted the canard that [they] are 'Independent.' They are not...They are part of the executive...[They] have been able to go w/o any real accountability."

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on the border: "Day one, it's a national emergency. We'll mobilize all resources to construct the border wall, shut [it] down. We're not going to be entertaining asylum...for people coming across...illegally...Nobody has a right to come to our country illegally."

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on immigration: "[T]he legal immigration system needs to be geared towards assimilating people...Republicans have been asking about this for years...I can tell you when I tell people I'm going to do something, I follow through...We will construct the border wall"

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on Disney: "In FL, we believe in the protection of children. We believe it's inappropriate to be jamming things like transgender ideology into elementary school classrooms...Disney has gone down the road of wanting to put sexualization into children's programming"

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on Disney: "You have no right to corporate welfare, FL is a great business environment...There's a new sheriff in town...As a parent...I strongly believe...[they] should be able to send their kids to school...w/o someone trying to shove an agenda down their throats"

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis makes clear this arrangement with Disney was a unique situation a governor would handle, but "we will, as president, lean in against woke ideology & against the sexualization of children. It's wrong, Trey, what they're trying to do to these kids."

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on abortion: "I have been proud...to stand for a culture of life. I think...all Republicans need to do that...Dobbs returned [abortion] to the elected representatives...Fighting for life...is a bottom-up movement."

Also praises Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds as #prolife

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis, pressed by @TGowdySC on federalism's role on abortion: "I don't think it's the price you pay for federalism...The question is, how are you going to be able to save more lives?...[California] want[s] to have abortion all the way up to birth."

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on the military & Russia vs. Ukraine: "Well, first...our military has become politicized...We need to return our military to focusing on commitment...the core values...In terms of what's going on over in Eastern Europe, I would like to see a settlement on this."

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on facing attacks while maintaining GOP unity: "I don't mind being called different things, I have been called everything but a child of god as it is...There will be slings and arrows, but I am a big boy, I can take it."

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on top 3 priorities: "The border...ripping out Joe Biden's anti-American energy policies...and then reconstitutionalizing the administrative state...that's totally out of control."

Also mentions national school choice as a necessary "lifeline" to blue cities

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on climate/energy: "Hurricanes...have not increased...[T]hat's a fact of life in [FL]. I have always rejected the politicization of the weather...What we should be doing...is focusing on being energy-independent...Reliable energy...is...essential for a free society"

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on China: "Recognize...they're our foremost geopolitical threat...Our economies have become way too intermingled...We need to have a robust relationship w/Japan, Korea, India, Australia...We need a 21st Century version of the Monroe Doctrine...Biden...has been lax"

@RonDeSantis @TGowdySC .@RonDeSantis on Trump saying there shouldn't be any GOP debates: "[W]e should debate. I think the people want to hear it...Nobody's entitled to anything in this world...You have to earn it....That's exactly what I intend to do....[They're] a big part of the process" (22/22)