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Ron DeSantis: “When Covid hit, all the leagues shut down.”

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Published March 24, 2026 | Video Starts at 42:30

So I'm just a big believer in that. I think it's good. We've been very supportive. You know, When Covid hit, all the leagues shut down. And you know, Dana White, to his credit from ufc, you know, he starts saying, we gotta, I gotta find a deserted island. We gotta keep fighting. (42:30–42:33)

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Asserts that all sports leagues shut down when Covid hit.

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“California, which has increased their budget by how much over the last 10, 15 years? Their budget's tripled in the last 10 or 15 years.”
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“We announced because of the funding that we've been able to provide through her program, they are going to have the first carbon ion cancer…”
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“The economy in Florida probably expanded by 75 to 80%.”
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“I've retired over half of [Florida's debt] just in my 10 years office.”
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“The local governments took in 32 billion in property tax. 2019, 2026, 60 billion in property tax.”
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“We had 300,000 more Democrats in this state when I ran in 18... Today we have 1.4 million more registered Republicans.”
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“People. And yet with four million more residents, their budget is over twice the size of Florida's budget.”
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“They [Iran] were responsible for killing certainly hundreds of our service members. And I'd say probably they killed at least a thousand…”
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“Our current fiscal is probably about 117, and we'll likely be in that range. We probably won't be higher than that fiscal year.”
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“When I got elected in population. But now we got about four million more people. We're about 23 and a half million. They're 19 and a half…”
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“You pay 50, $60 in tolls. Where does that money go? Don't you think you would want to actually fix the potholes? It all gets pilfered…”
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“He wants to raise property taxes for like 3 million people. They don't have 3 million billionaires in New York. He's gonna hit the cops…”
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“California has the highest income tax in America.”
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“California has the highest gas tax in America.”
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“California's sales tax is higher than the state of Florida's.”
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“California is losing population.”
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“Some of their most significant residents just in the last 60 days are fleeing California because they want to do this ridiculous wealth tax.”
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“The wealth taxes don't work. When they tried to do it in some of these European countries, the revenue went down.”
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“We're ranked number one public higher education 10 years in a row. We have the lowest in state tuition in America.”
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“We were number two in fourth grade math and number six or seven in fourth grade reading on the naep.”
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“We basically had 10 years of migration packed into two or three years.”
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“Florida is really about, you know, five states into one.”
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“We probably have the most diverse state, you know, in the country, that you can go from Pensacola to South beach, and you're in the same…”
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“When I went [to New Haven], it was rated the second most dangerous small city in America.”
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“We have some of the best talent for both high school, baseball, football, golf, some of these things anywhere in the country.”
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“When I got back then when I got out and I eventually got elected to Congress, this post traumatic stress was something that I worked on…”
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“Iran was funding and orchestrating a lot of the roadside bomb attacks in the Shia areas of Iraq.”
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“I commissioned in the Navy because I was like, you know, the country [needed it after 9/11].”
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“UFC, you know, six weeks after 15 days to slow the spread, they're doing a live fight in Jacksonville.”
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“I'd have people WWE up in Orlando because they couldn't do it in Connecticut.”
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“I was one of the few guys, Jim, Jordan, Devin, handful of these guys, not a lot of you fighting the collusion from day one.”
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“We controlled the Congress as Republicans and they were doing collusion investigations in a Republican controlled Congress.”
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“I was 10 points down going into that debate.”
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“This is 99% survivable.”
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“Endorsed me in 18, wasn't too hot on me in 22.”
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“We raised him 10, 15 million dollars to his super PAC during that period of time.”
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“He's hosting Doral for the PGA Tour again this year.”
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“If we don't do anything by 2032, it's going to be 83 billion [in property tax revenue].”
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