Ron DeSantis: “If Trump had just won independent voters, he would have won…”

“You look at the 2022 election, a lot of the candidates that he got behind, independents, even though they disapproved of Biden, they still broke for the Democrats. And so I think with all those issues with the mail ballot, Zuckerbucks, If Trump had just won independent voters, he would have won the Electoral College. And I think in Florida, what we showed is we won independent voters by 18 percentage points. You cannot win a national election just with Republicans. You got to have appeal beyond that.” (15:03–15:09)

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