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Ron DeSantis: “When I walked into the governor's office, we had 300,000…”

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Governor DeSantis Delivers Keynote Address at Yale University Buckley Institute Annual Conference

Published | Video Starts at 17:31

2012 presidential, 1 point margin. 2014 governor, 1 point margin, 2016 presidential, 1 point margin. 2018 governor, me, less than 1 point margin. So that's the Florida that we had. And When I walked into the governor's office, we had 300,000 more registered Democrats in the state than Republicans. Today we have 1.4 million more Republicans than Democrats in Florida. So you've never seen, you have never seen that type of transformation in any state in this country in modern history. (17:31–17:38)

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Asserts that there were 300,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans when he became governor.

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