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Ron DeSantis: “Coolidge could have gotten elected in 28, he chose not to…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Governor DeSantis Holds a Fireside Chat with the Coolidge Foundation in Polk County

Published | Video Starts at 09:00

It wouldn't have been though a 10 year double digit unemployment. Sorrow that it was without the obsessive Repetitive intervention and experimentation by the New Deal. Because Coolidge could have gotten elected in 28, he chose not to run. If he had been president, as you said, I mean, markets go up and down. It's not the President's fault. (09:00–09:04)

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Asserts that Calvin Coolidge chose not to run for re-election in 1928.

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