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Ron DeSantis: “When I became governor, we were about a trillion dollars, a little bit more than that. And now we're over 1.9…”

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Most of you have heard me over the years talk about all the stuff in Florida in terms of our economy growing. When I became governor, we were about a trillion dollars, a little bit more than that. And now we're over 1.9 trillion for our GDP. and seven and a half years, that's a pretty good run. If we were our own state, if our state was our own country, we'd have one of the top 15 economies in the entire world. (01:03–01:11)

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Asserts that Florida's GDP has grown from about $1 trillion to over $1.9 trillion since he became governor.

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