Ron DeSantis: “We've been ranked number one economy in America by various publications many years over this tenure.”

“If we were its own, if we were our own country, we'd be one of the top 20 economies in the world, top 15 even economies in the world for the size. So that's pretty impressive. We've been ranked number one economy in America by various publications many years over this tenure. We have a triple A credit rating for all major rating agencies. There's a lot of states that can't even sniff that. Some of the states that your neighbors have moved from can't sniff that.” (01:17–01:25)

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