Ron DeSantis: “Hamilton was the primary author of the Federalist Papers.”

“But they had a product and so Hamilton wanted to see it adopted because he thought it was an improvement over what we had. So he Hamilton was the primary author of the Federalist Papers. So there was more than 80 Federalist papers published. It was not under his name. They used the pseudonym Pew Pew and it was John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.” (16:12–16:16)

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