They believed in laboratories of democracy because they knew that New York was different than Virginia. Right. And South Carolina is different than Maryland. And that's okay. The federal government has gotten way too big. They're trying to dictate to our lives and control over our state. In Oklahoma, during COVID when Biden was in office, he was trying to force me to do a mask mandate across our state. I was one of the only governors that refused to do that. (08:20–08:30)
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Asserts that the federal government is overreaching in its control over states.
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