Ron DeSantis: “Florida, like, we're. We're open for business, right?”

“Were you at the Tampa super bowl when Tom won? No. No, I didn't make the game there. So that was. That was the COVID super bowl. And, you know, Florida, like, we're. We're open for business, right? And I told the NFL to build a stadium, but they were. They were like, wow. No, so literally, they would put cardboard cutouts of people throughout the stadium so that the stadium wasn't full and it was like half.” (40:39–40:42)

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