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Ron DeSantis: “When I got elected governor, I think we had about 21 million…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Published | Video Starts at 10:53

And the reality is, since that April of 2020, you know, Florida has been the number one state that people have sought to move to in the entire United States of America. And so When I got elected governor, I think we had about 21 million people. You know, now we're almost 20, 23 and a half million people in the state of Florida. But our current congressional districts are reflective of that reality from 2019, the beginning of 2020. So you have some districts that have not reflected the population change that's happened. (10:53–11:04)

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Asserts that Florida's population has grown from about 21 million to nearly 23.5 million since Ron DeSantis became governor.

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