It's not to protect my own political hide. I was taking a beating, but I believed in what I was doing was right. I had studied the data unlike most other governors. and unlike a lot of these People that would go on CNN that were supposedly experts and I had to care more about their jobs and their livelihoods and their kids education than I did about protecting my own job. (1:37:48–1:37:52)
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Asserts that he studied COVID-19 data more thoroughly than most other governors.
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