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Ron DeSantis: “James Monroe...was basically responsible for bringing…”

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Governor DeSantis Unveils Frederick Douglass Statue in St. Augustine

Published | Video Starts at 02:12

And it's been there now for over a year. I think we had it where we were doing that. We are just in the Florida Keys from Monroe county, and we did James Monroe...was basically responsible for bringing Florida into the United States of America as a territory. and eventually paved the way for us to become a state later in the 1840s. So we've done that, and we've done a lot of different things. (02:12–02:24)

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Asserts that James Monroe played a key role in Florida becoming a U.S. territory.

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