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Ron DeSantis: “The number of people on [Citizens Insurance] got up to 1.4…”

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Published | Video Starts at 05:31

But what was happening was a lot of those people were going on to Citizens Insurance, which is the insurer of last resort, which basically, you know, Floridians would have to backstop if you had a real catastrophic situation. So The number of people on [Citizens Insurance] got up to 1.4 million. Folks. The problem with that is that if you did have a storm, there's not. They weren't solvent to be able to pay the claims. And guess what they would have done? (05:31–05:35)

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