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Ron DeSantis: “When I became governor, we had a trillion dollar economy…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Governor DeSantis Makes Tampa Bay Rays Announcement

Published | Video Starts at 30:35

Well, hey, we're going to go, go there and you know, you can have a good time that even if they're not going for baseball, it will end up helping baseball. Governor, are you willing to support a. When I became governor, we had a trillion dollar economy. Now it's $1.8 trillion. We've cut tax, we've eliminated business rent tax and other things like that. And yet you look at our revenue from the most recent month, we came in a half a billion overestimate. (30:35–30:40)

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Asserts that Florida's economy has grown from $1 trillion to $1.8 trillion during his governorship.

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