{"id":120254,"date":"2021-02-07T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T19:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120254"},"modified":"2021-02-07T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T19:42:53","slug":"governor-ron-desantis-while-other-states-are-locking-people-down-we-are-lifting-them-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/governor-ron-desantis-while-other-states-are-locking-people-down-we-are-lifting-them-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Ron DeSantis: While Other States Are Locking People Down, We Are Lifting Them Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgovernor-ron-desantis-while-other-states-are-locking-people-down-we-are-lifting-them-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120254&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DeSantis-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said during a Fox News interview on Sunday that while other states have been focused on locking people down that he has been focusing on lifting people up and that people do not believe the media\u2019s demonization of the way that he has handled the coronavirus pandemic because \u201cpeople vote with their feet, and they are flooding into this state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, you look around the country, and they still are debating whether schools should be open. We\u2019ve had schools open the whole year, they talk about whether businesses should be open, every business in Florida has a right to operate,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cThey talk about all these people unemployed in Florida, every single person has a right to earn a living. And our unemployment rate is lower than the national average. Even though we\u2019re so tourism-dependent, that market hasn\u2019t recovered at all. Our COVID though, we have less COVID mortality per capita than the national average 25 states or higher. So the lockdowns don\u2019t work on their own, but they cause catastrophic damage to society. So we\u2019ve been able to do as other states have tried to lock people down, we\u2019ve tried to lift people up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019ll tell you, every time I go out, someone will come up to me and say, my kid wasn\u2019t doing well, thank you for getting them back in school or my business would have failed, thank you for saving us or I would have lost my job,\u201d he added. \u201cThose effects are going to make this state so strong going forward. And I think had we tried a different course that has not worked in other places, I think it takes years and years to be able to recover from the damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about why he thought the media criticized his handling of the pandemic while they praised New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, DeSantis said it all came down to their partisan agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, look, they have a partisan agenda. And I think it was an election year, they did not want the president to carry Florida,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cI think the fact that the President endorsed me when I ran for governor, you know, means that they want to do that. So they had a narrative. And their narrative is whatever that helps them advance their political, it doesn\u2019t matter about the facts. They don\u2019t care about the facts. In fact, they will ignore facts that are inconvenient for their narrative, and even concoct conspiracy theories as to why the facts aren\u2019t doing it. So I think they\u2019ve done a horrible job with what they\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut here\u2019s the thing, people aren\u2019t buying it,\u201d he continued. \u201cBecause people vote with their feet, and they are flooding into this state, we have investment coming in. We have people buying homes like never before, we have the fact just the fact that we have schools open, people are leaving in every corner of the state just because we have schools, we had sports, we\u2019ve had sports going on the whole time, I have parents who have moved their kids to Florida because they didn\u2019t want to miss football season, which they would have in some of these lockdown states. And so I think that there\u2019s the narratives that some of the corporate elite media tried to sell, people don\u2019t buy it. And this is a perfect example. Because if people bought their narratives, you\u2019d have people leaving here to go to the states that are supposedly doing so well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis was also asked about running for president in 2024, to which he would not give a specific answer, but he did leave the door open.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Florida Gov DeSantis on economic boom, hosting Super Bowl amid pandemic\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R27bhl9Znao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>FOX AND FRIENDS: Welcome back to Fox and Friends. Welcome back to Tampa, Florida home of Super Bowl 55. We\u2019ve been talking to you all weekend about the state of Florida, the state of being open, the state of freedom, and experiencing it here down in the sunshine state. The man responsible for that is Governor Ron DeSantis, in large part keeping this state open and I\u2019m pleased to be joined now by the governor himself. Governor DeSantis, good to have you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RON DESANTIS, GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA (R): Welcome to Tampa Bay and welcome to the great state of Florida.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FOX AND FRIENDS: Thank you. Now I want to point out to the audience something when he says he\u2019s a Bucs fan. He\u2019s not being a typical politician running to the front. Taking the popular position. You\u2019re from this area. You grew up a Bucs fan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DESANTIS: Yeah, so when they had the orange uniforms, when they were kind of the joke of the NFL, played at the old sombrero, the visiting team would usually have more fans than we would have. So I was a supporter. And yeah, we were able to win a Super Bowl in 2003, which was great. But we\u2019ve had some lean years and so to be able to be here and hosting the Super Bowl with the Bucs in it with Tom Brady at the helm, there\u2019s a lot of excitement here in the Tampa Bay area.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FOX AND FRIENDS: Absolutely. I\u2019ve made the case, by the way to bring back those creamsicle uniforms. I think they\u2019re beautiful. I\u2019m gonna get your prediction in just a moment. But let\u2019s talk about being open. I\u2019ve experienced it. I\u2019ve been out and about in Tampa this entire weekend, your state\u2019s been open. This isn\u2019t the first championship you\u2019ve hosted, not the first big event you\u2019ve hosted. Tell me about you opening this state up and what it\u2019s meant for the economy and whether or not it\u2019s been a success.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DESANTIS: Well, you look around the country, and they still are debating whether schools should be open. We\u2019ve had schools open the whole year, they talk about whether businesses should be open, every business in Florida has a right to operate. They talk about all these people unemployed in Florida, every single person has a right to earn a living. And our unemployment rate is lower than the national average. Even though we\u2019re so tourism dependent, that market hasn\u2019t recovered at all. Our COVID though, we have less COVID mortality per capita than the national average 25 states or higher. So the lockdowns don\u2019t work on their own, but they cause catastrophic damage to society. So we\u2019ve been able to do as other states have tried to lock people down, we\u2019ve tried to lift people up. And I\u2019ll tell you, every time I go out, someone will come up to me and say, my kid wasn\u2019t doing well, thank you for getting them back in school or my business would have failed, thank you for saving us or I would have lost my job. Those effects are going to make this state so strong going forward. And I think had we tried a different course that has not worked in other places, I think it takes years and years to be able to recover from the damage<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FOX AND FRIENDS: Maybe decades, maybe decades. In fact, the data is clear, you know, it\u2019s come in, hospitalizations, transmissions, mortality combined with the economics of being open. But then that leads me to this, and I don\u2019t know that there\u2019s an easy answer to this question, but outside of a few places, the national media is largely used you as a point of criticism while celebrating governors like Andrew Cuomo. Why do you think that is in the face of all that evidence?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DESANTIS: Well, look, they have a partisan agenda. And I think it was an election year, they did not want the president to carry Florida. I think the fact that the President endorsed me when I ran for governor, you know, means that they want to do that. So they had a narrative. And their narrative is whatever that helps them advance their political, it doesn\u2019t matter about the facts. They don\u2019t care about the facts. In fact, they will ignore facts that are inconvenient for their narrative, and even concoct conspiracy theories as to why the facts aren\u2019t doing it. So I think they\u2019ve done a horrible job with what they\u2019ve done. But here\u2019s the thing. People aren\u2019t buying it. Because people vote with their feet, and they are flooding into this state, we have investment coming in. We have people buying homes like never before, we have the fact just the fact that we have schools open, people are leaving in every corner of the state just because we have schools, we had sports, we\u2019ve had sports going on the whole time, I have parents who have moved their kids to Florida, because they didn\u2019t want to miss football season, which they would have in some of these lockdown states. And so I think that there\u2019s the narratives that that some of the corporate elite media tried to sell, people don\u2019t buy it. And this is a perfect example. Because if people bought their narratives, you\u2019d have people leaving here to go to the states that are supposedly doing so well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FOX AND FRIENDS: You\u2019ve talked about voting with their feet, by the way, are you going to try to translate those into votes for presidency, you got run for president 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DESANTIS: We got a great Governor\u2019s election in 2022, which will be very important for our state. And quite frankly, I think, you know, it gives us the ability to keep the momentum going. So that\u2019s what we\u2019re focused on focused on governorship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FOX AND FRIENDS: But is that a node running for president?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DESANTIS: That\u2019s a we have 2022 to worry about.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said during a Fox News interview on Sunday that while other states have been focused on locking people down that he has been focusing on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892829,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4980,4173,5691,5688,5090,3720],"class_list":["post-120254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-desantis","tag-governor","tag-locking","tag-other","tag-states","tag-while"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}