"It would be tempting to write off DeSantis, the bombastic Republican governor of Florida, as another unelectable right-wing lunatic unfit for national office. We’ve made that mistake before."
Ronald Dion DeSantis is an American politician, attorney, and former naval officer serving as the 46th governor of Florida since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2013 to 2018 as the U.S. representative from Florida's 6th congressional district. DeSantis was a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, withdrawing his candidacy in January 2024.
"Look, Hollywood is a cesspool. The idea that Wienstein is alone, or even that conspicuous, I don’t think is true, I think this is pervasive behavior in Hollywood, and I think it does implicate the media. I think they’ve been complicit in it, I think businesses have been complicit in it."
"It seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism"
"We looked at the data that we had from other parts of the world as we were getting into March, and we saw that this was a virus that had a disproportionate impact on elderly people and were the second-oldest state in the country, so that was something that was obviously very concerning to us"
"I know a lot of people that were there who were just there [...] They didnt have any designs on doing anything. [...] But to say that they were seditionists is just wrong."
"Were going to have all of these deep state people, you know, we are going to start slitting throats on day one."
"I think all that has to be vetted in a way that errs on the side of protecting the American people. If theres a chance that someone may be inclined to be an enemy of the country, then I think you have to err on the side of caution."