Ron DeSantis: “We've retired over half of [Florida's state debt] in my…”

“If you go from that statehood all the way till the present, and you added up all the debt that the state of Florida has incurred as a state just since I've been governor, We've retired over half of [Florida's state debt] in my tenure. And so that's something that we're happy. And so we're showing that it can be done. I mean, we've, we have paid down that debt, which is great.” (04:23–04:27)

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