May 20, 2020

Ron DeSantis Interview Transcript – Governor Takes Shots at Media Over Coronavirus Predictions

Ron DeSantis Blasts Media for COVID-19 Criticism
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took some shots at the media, speaking to a group of reporters about Florida’s success dealing with coronavirus & predictions that Florida would become a hotspot for COVID-19. Read the transcript here.

 

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Governor Ron DeSantis: (00:00)
Our data is available. Our data is transparent. In fact, Dr. Birx has talked multiple times about how Florida has the absolute best data. So any insinuation otherwise is just typical partisan narrative trying to be spun. And part of the reason is that because you got a lot of people in your profession who wax poetically for weeks and weeks about how Florida was going to be just like New York. Wait two weeks. Florida’s going to be next. Just like Italy, wait two weeks. Well, hell we’re eight weeks away from that. And it hasn’t happened. Not only do we have a lower death rate, well, we have way lower deaths generally, we have a lower death rate than the Acela corridor, DC, everyone up there. We have a lower rate death rate than the Midwest, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, but even in our region, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida has the lower death rate. And I was the number one landing spot from tens of thousands of people leaving the number one hot zone in the world to come to my state.

Governor Ron DeSantis: (01:01)
So we’ve succeeded, and I think that people just don’t want to recognize it because it challenges their narrative. It challenges their assumption, so they got to try to find a boogeyman. Maybe it’s that they’re a black helicopter circling the Department of Health. If you believe that, I got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.

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