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Ron DeSantis: “Since I've been governor, you take all the debt In Florida's…”

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Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Condo Reform Bill in Clearwater Beach

Published | Video Starts at 31:37

And so some people say we're just going to get out of dodge. But the reality is we're less with 23.5 million people than even New York City is. If you look, Since I've been governor, you take all the debt In Florida's history 180 years, we've retired 41% of it just in my tenure as governor. So your share. We have the lowest per capita debt of any state in the country that has state debt. And it's not a lot anyways, but we've done a lot. (31:37–31:48)

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Asserts that 41% of Florida's historical debt has been retired during DeSantis's tenure as governor.

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