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Byron Donalds: “Florida should lead [in technology and AI].”

Featuring: Byron Donalds, Republican | U.S. House, Florida, District 19

BREAKING: Byron Donalds Campaigns For Governor At TPUSA Event At Florida Gulf Coast University

Published February 20, 2026 | Video Starts at 30:10

And to be honest, I don't trust the Democrats in Virginia. I don't want my data there. I think when it comes to technology, AI and everything else, Florida should lead [in technology and AI]. We use common sense. We know how to do this thing. We should lead, not play cute on social media, not just say no without a plan and a strategy. (30:10–30:15)

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“Those [Israeli] bonds that were purchased actually pay a higher rate, about 100 basis points more than U.S. treasuries.”
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“The Israeli bond portfolio, as I understand it, yields around five and a quarter.”
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“About 30 to 35% of building a new home in the United States is government permitting.”
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“We're bringing Bill and Hillary in next week to question them under oath.”
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“The way Florida has been able to progress from when I first got here to where it is right now has been with consistent common sense…”
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“In 2008, the funding worlds fiscal economy was blowing up at its core. It started here in the United States.”
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“The core reason why it started was because we had major delinquencies in residential, in a residential housing market, single family homes.”
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“Some stupid politician in the 90s, actually several of them thought it was a good idea to have no credit quality when it came to actually…”
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“What ended up happening was people were in homes that they couldn't afford.”
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“When they couldn't make the payments, you had too many people who were having to just give the homes back to the bank.”
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“It created a systemic crash in the financial markets.”
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“A lot of the issues that are frustrating Americans today, especially young Americans, the reason why they don't change is because of the…”
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“In the House of Representatives, we pass all kind of bills, we pass them all the time, we send it to the Senate. And in the Senate, it dies.”
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“It dies because the Senate can't clear their filibuster.”
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“The filibuster as we know it today was actually brought into being around 1950, 15, 1917.”
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“In 1975, they changed the filibuster...from the 67 vote threshold to a 60 vote threshold.”
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“If you're going to tackle housing, immigration, energy policy, budget policy, tax policy, today in Washington, you have to get 60 votes in…”
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“The immigration standards in America used to be before 1965, which we need.”
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“When I was in the legislature, we were funding Everglades restoration, Central Everglades restoration plans.”
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“The governor has been a true leader in this, making sure that [Everglades restoration] continues to get funded.”
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“We have about, depending on who you talk to, we probably have about five to seven years of work left to do [on Everglades restoration].”
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“We're probably going to have 5 to 7 million people come to Florida.”
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“Florida is going to continue to grow. You can't build a wall between us and Georgia. That's unconstitutional.”
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“Companies are coming here because we have a low tax state with common sense where we make sure that law enforcement does its job and does it…”
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“Part of that is wastewater treatment facilities. We gotta make sure those get expanded appropriately.”
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“I believe Florida should embrace small modular reactors, micro nuclear reactors.”
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“We don't want to have Mexico dumping produce and dumping other specialty products into America.”
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“We cannot rely on other countries to feed our people and we rely on other countries to manage our supply chains.”
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“The legislature is going through their ag bill right now.”
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“Data centers do have the ability to do power generation on site where they're actually not taking from the grid.”
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“I support micro reactors and small modular nuclear reactors because you could actually deploy that on site with the data center.”
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“If you're going to build a data center, it has to be set back far enough from the next person's ranch or the next person's home.”
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“Data centers are going to be a function of American life going forward.”
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“The more you use technology, the more server space that you're going to need.”
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“I don't want to warehouse my data in China. I don't trust them.”
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“India has to deal with Russia. They share a border. I don't want my data there.”
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“I don't trust the Democrats in Virginia. I don't want my data there.”
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“I have no patience for this kind of stuff [anti-Semitism].”
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“If you're anti Semitic, you're going to go paint swastikas or somebody or somebody's business or somebody's car.”
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“Solar and wind are not green.”
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“The greenest form of power on the planet is nuclear.”
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“The second greenest is natural gas.”
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“If you artificially inflate the energy of the cost of energy, you artificially inflate the cost of everything else.”
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“U.S. treasuries don't yield that.”
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“These bonds in question are not just Florida bonds written. The bonds that everybody's talking about are in our pension fund.”
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“If you go through the process to say we are going to divest of these bonds and then get a lower rate of return, you've already breached your…”
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“Kamala Harris, her campaign strategy in 2024 was she wanted to provide $25,000 in down payment assistance.”
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“In Florida, it's probably about two years to put a shovel in the ground and build a single family home.”
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“The regulatory burden of procuring raw materials to build housing is crazy.”
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“Washington had the bright idea that they were going to increase the weatherization and efficiency standards for housing.”
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“The governor does not have control over the investment board.”
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“The investment board is appointed by the governor's office, but they don't have control over that.”
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“Are there anti semites? 100% there are.”
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“These ICE agents are having to wear masks to protect their families because of organized protesters by George Soros.”
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“The American people even today support, support deportations of illegal aliens.”
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“Tom Holman got the money last August to start this.”
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“If you are going to set up a logistical system to deport 5 million illegal aliens, let alone 10, it takes longer than six months.”
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“The administration is actually standing up the efforts necessary to do what President Trump promised the American people.”
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“I was at the potential, potential ICE facility in Orlando. It's about 150000 square feet of space.”
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“When the vote came to the floor, I voted for them [Epstein files] to be released.”
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“In the United States of America, we do not do justice by the mob or by social media or by commentary.”
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“The foundation of our country, the Fourth Amendment, the fifth Amendment in particular, the very basis of the constitutional republic, is to…”
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“We have two real enemies on the face of this planet, and that is the Chinese Communist Party, and that is the Muslim Brotherhood and radical…”
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“The way you destabilize America is you have their people destabilize it from inside.”
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“I 100% believe we have psyops going on in social media to decentralize America's internal political fabric.”
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“I'm on the Oversight Committee. We are doing some of that work right now.”
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