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Ron DeSantis: “There's people that said Florida would be underwater by the…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Published | Video Starts at 06:19

Well, but there's a difference between observing what's happened and then predicting catastrophe in the future. And there have been a lot of predictions of catastrophe. I know as Florida people. There's people that said Florida would be underwater by the 2000 and 20s, you know, and that hasn't happened. But the issue is, okay, what are you going to do? And what I find on a lot of the people that are very aggressive on this is it's more about ideology. (06:19–06:25)

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Asserts that predictions of Florida being underwater by the 2020s have not come true.

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