Ron DeSantis: “Compare him to 2019, to that debate, it's been a really…”

“But the issue is now you have some of these media people saying, you know, that he should not run and all this other stuff, when they knew that this is how he was. You Compare him to 2019, to that debate, it's been a really significant decline. And the idea that that decline is going to stop, that somehow you can make it to age 86, given the trajectory, is a joke. And everybody knows that's a joke.” (00:31–00:38)

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