Ron DeSantis: “Since I've been in office, we've retired more than 50% of…”

“So 250America. Florida has been a state for 181 years. If you take all the debt that was accumulated for those 181 years by the state of Florida, just Since I've been in office, we've retired more than 50% of [Florida's] debt just in seven years. So we have the lowest per capita debt in the entire United States of America. And it's continuing to go down. We're going to get more on that.” (37:10–37:16)

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