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Gov. Ron DeSantis: Trump, controversy, loss and what comes next

Published April 27, 2026 | Video Starts at 53:12

I think so, yeah. What's your reflection on kind of. You mentioned Disney on how that all. Well, so first just signing the bill. Most people thought I wouldn't go through with it once they came out, because they are. They've been the most powerful force in Florida. And you guys got married at Disney. So it's not. How odd is. That's not anything we ever hid. But when this was going. Going on, people didn't draw the connection to it. (53:12–53:19)

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“When I took office in 18, we had 300,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans.”
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“The cost of the football programs have doubled or tripled.”
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“I graduated magna cum laude from Yale University.”
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“I get to Harvard Law School and... Many of you aren't going to be here after your first year.”
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“I think I was the first one from my high school to ever go to Yale, or certainly one of the few.”
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“I had never been exposed to anti-Americanism, anti-religion, anti-God, anti-Christian [sentiments] until I went to [Yale].”
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“The United States, they caused the Cold War, they did this. And I'm just like, well, that's not true.”
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“I saw nothing that was anything other than 100% professional [at Guantanamo Bay].”
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“The narrative that was out in legacy media was not consistent with the facts on the ground [at Guantanamo Bay].”
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“Legacy media was saying, people are going to Guantanamo. They're being tortured, they're being this.”
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“If you were in a supermax versus there [Guantanamo Bay], you wouldn't know the difference.”
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“I felt that they [detainees] were being treated very unfairly because it was the narrative, right.”
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“We would have people go down there from, like, these European countries, and these guys would tell us...this is not what we've been told…”
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“Would you want them [detainees] in the mainland of the United States? No.”
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“Some of these other guys that ended up getting released, they're just playing soccer all day in, like, kind of an open field situation where…”
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“I saw the same thing when I was in Iraq. How could Washington Post be writing this when I'm watching? What's that did not happen the way…”
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“We actually have mandatory curriculum in our schools where kids need to learn about 9/11, what caused it all.”
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“We went public with [Casey DeSantis's breast cancer] because we just felt that we owed it to the people.”
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“Biden opened the border. I think most people, even a lot of Democrats agree. That was big mistake.”
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“Biden was literally flying people. He was flying people into Florida.”
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“Martha's Vineyard had an office in their downtown that said refugee welcome Center. Nobody is illegal.”
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“The legislature passed money to do the transport.”
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“This was a place that was advertising itself as a sanctuary jurisdiction.”
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“If Biden would enforce the law, it would have never come to that.”
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“What you're going through is gonna be a 99% success rate.”
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“I had the biggest victory in the history of the Republicans in Florida in 22.”
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“When 60 Minutes tried to do a hit piece on us, which was bogus, and they got big time criticism for it.”
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“Democrats coming out in Florida saying this is a lie. Like the idea that somehow they did anything wrong by working with publics was a lie.”
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“The CARES act had the mail ballots.”
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“We were projecting 200,000 people in the caucus. There were 100,000 that showed out.”
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“Washington believed in the Russia collusion. Official Washington believed a lot of Republicans in Congress, Democrats in the bureaucracy.”
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“That's just become part and parcel of what we've done in emergency response.”
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“We had two [hurricanes] in a row back to back in 2024.”
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“I sign legislation in the heartland of Florida.”
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“If I remove like a Soros prosecutor, they will say, you're being a bully.”
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“I'm using my executive authority under the Constitution to relieve someone of their duty who breached their duty to the public.”
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“Just think about COVID That was an international feeding frenzy against what we were doing in Covid day after day.”
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“I had studied the data unlike most other governors.”
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“Every kid in Florida has a right to be in a classroom in person if their parent wanted.”
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“Antibody studies showed Stanford did one. A lot of people had the antibodies way more than we thought.”
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“The World Health Organization said it was 3.4% [mortality rate].”
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“If you're a Florida resident and you're homesteading your property, that's your property, primary homesteaded residence, we think that…”
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“If we don't do anything, they're going to have 84 billion in revenue in 2031.”
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“Did we not have schools and police in 2019 when they were taking in 32 billion? Of course we did.”
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“James Madison in Federalist 45 said the powers delegated under the proposed Constitution... are few and defined.”
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“When we had the hurricane in 2022 and the hurricanes in 24, FEMA was not on the front lines.”
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“There's approach in, like Illinois where they eliminated cash bail, I don't think that's been successful.”
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“These are companies that are exercising more power over our society than any companies have ever exercised in the history of the Republic.”
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“Some of these chatbots have done things that are very, very troubling in terms of sexualization with minors, goading them into committing…”
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“States couldn't touch AI for 10 years [according to a proposal in the summer of 25].”
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“Even the Trump administration has acknowledged the child safety transparency [in AI regulation].”
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“If AI is used to harm you, you have an ability to have legal recourse.”
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“I won reelection four years later by a million and a half votes.”
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“We got 13 or 14 now for term limits [for Congress].”
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“I endorsed the president in January 2024.”
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“We didn't do any vacations from the time I got elected till the time I got reelected.”
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