As host Sean Hannity noted, DeSantis mostly kept his businesses and his constituents' socio economic freedoms wide open during the pandemic, while simultaneously protecting his sizable senior citizen population among other vulnerable groups.
Hannity pointed to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New Jersey Gov. Philip Murphy and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as examples of state leaders who instead kept their constituents under socioeconomic restrictions; in contrast with Florida's DeSantis.
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Regarding his support for law enforcement, DeSantis announced 174,000 Floridian first responders will receive a one-time $1,000 bonus for their efforts and personal risks taken during the pandemic.
"Sean, they have a tough job. They were treated horribly in many parts of the country for the entire year. We stood by them in Florida 100%, but we also recognized this was a very challenging year, so this is one way for us to say thank you, and another way, the bill you mentioned, the anti-rioting bill, provides additional support for the police," he stated.
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"[The anti-rioting bill] says very simply that if the local government tries to defund law enforcement, the state of Florida will veto that, we will make sure law enforcement is funded, and if people are rioting, they are damaging property, attacking police, they are going to go to jail."
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"And we are going to stand by the men and women in uniform."
DeSantis noted that in Cuomo's case, New York has twice the fiscal budget but has a higher population than Florida.
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DeSantis further touted his lockdown measures, or lack thereof in comparison to the aforementioned governors, saying they embraced "failed policies."
DeSantis discussed his ban on so-called "Zuckerbucks" -- after a Zuckerberg initiative poured millions of dollars into funding election operations in several states and municipalities.
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A report by the Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal pointed out that such funds were supposed to "help with pandemic-related expenses, including PPE and other unique challenges at a time of social distancing."
However, the Signal found that in the case of Pennsylvania, some counties had reportedly used funds for 'get out the vote' efforts and unrelated costs. The Pennsylvania Department of State and 23 jurisdictions received $20 million from the Center for Tech and Civic Life -- which was given $350 million by the Zuckerberg-Chan Initiative.
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"Sean, we are very proud of what we did in Florida in 2020. You and I talked about it, we counted 11 million votes by Midnight, very transparent, and people had confidence in the results," said DeSantis.
"We look forward to heading off problems. The fact is we can't have ballot harvesting. It is prone to fraud. We've got to have voter I.D. enforced, strictly. We are doing that in the state of Florida," he concluded.
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