Ron DeSantis: “Very few governors read all the stuff that I read.”

“So the hysteria was real. So you had to kind of cut through that. You had to figure out the data, figure out the facts, which wasn't easy to do. And Very few governors read all the stuff that I read. But then you had to have the courage to know you are walking into a buzzsaw when you're departing from the narrative. They are going to come at you six ways from Sunday.” (04:42–04:46)

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