“When they govern badly in other states, a lot of times that will impact Florida. People will move, they’ll move business, they’ll move their families. And so people will come up to me and tell me, ‘I had to leave Chicago, I had to do this’.
“And I do remember during COVID people fleeing those lockdowns in Michigan. Very, very difficult, and people were treated very, very poorly. And the parents were upset with the schools and everything. So they would tell me this.
“And so Florida really, I think, played an important role in the history of our country over the last three or four years. But the voters in Florida responded and what used to be a swing state, you know, now the Democratic Party in Florida is a hollow shell.
“It’s like a dead carcass on the side of the road. I mean, we have beat the left in the state of Florida.” – Ron DeSantis, speaking today a Michigan GOP county breakfast event.