DeSantis Explains How He Went From Winning By 50,000 Votes To Winning By More Than 1.5 Million Votes

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis Fox News host Mark Levin interviewed him Sunday evening about his new book, which will be published this week, and the many successes he has achieved as governor.

This interview is being made amid speculation that DeSantis will make an announcement sometime in the coming months about his bid for president in 2024. Polling repeatedly shows that he and former President Donald Trump rank among the top two GOP primary candidates.

Levin was told by DeSantis that he had written his new book “The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival” They did not hire a ghostwriter to complete the job.

“I think it comes across as more authentic because it is me writing this,” DeSantis added that he didn’t attack others in his book because he doesn’t believe sharing details from private conversations with other officials is a good idea.

DeSantis said Republicans need to learn how to attack instead of being defensive where they are responding to the Democrats.

“It’s a lot easier for a governor — an executive to be on offense, but what I would say is one of the things I did when I was becoming governor, I compiled all the constitutional authorities the governor had, all the statutory authority, so I know what could I do by myself, what do I need to legislature for, what’s my relationship with local government officials?” He said. “Because I’ve removed bad election officials, I removed the Soros-backed prosecutor, and so we have certain authorities under Florida’s constitution, and so I understood that because you have an agenda you want to get passed or you want it to stick, but you don’t just say I want this and it happens, you’ve got to get it through those constitutional checks and balances.”

DeSantis stated early that he didn’t rely on polls to determine how to govern.

“You and I could go out, we could poll a group of 100 people; that’s just a static analysis of how they respond to a certain question. If I phrase the question different, probably get a different response,” DeSantis said. “So I don’t need to know what the static view [is]. What I need to know is if I set out the vision, if I execute that vision, if I produce favorable results, then will they be — will they be with me?”

“As a leader don’t be captive to public opinion, shape public opinion,” DeSantis said. “And I think we’ve proven that we did that. I went from winning by 32,000 votes to winning by 1.5 million votes.”

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