{"id":1478566,"date":"2022-05-17T16:59:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T20:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478566"},"modified":"2022-05-17T16:59:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T20:59:52","slug":"gov-desantis-hits-back-at-people-calling-him-a-dictator-says-people-are-fleeing-to-his-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-desantis-hits-back-at-people-calling-him-a-dictator-says-people-are-fleeing-to-his-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. DeSantis Hits Back At People Calling Him A Dictator, Says People Are Fleeing To His State"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fgov-desantis-hits-back-at-people-calling-him-a-dictator-says-people-are-fleeing-to-his-state%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=1478566&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><\/div>\n<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hit back at people comparing him to dictators, saying at a Tuesday press conference that people are \u201cfleeing\u201d to the state of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter asked the governor for his reaction to being compared to authoritarian regimes and dictators like Cuban dictator Fidel Castro or Venezuelan President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/14\/orozco-bidens-plans-maduro-regime-fiasco-venezuelan-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicolas Maduro<\/a>. DeSantis replied that those accusations were a \u201cslap in the face\u201d to those who have fled to Florida, particularly Cubans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a slap in the face to everybody in South Florida that has experience with these Marxist dictators in our hemisphere. You have people who were driven out of the island of Cuba, you have people where it was so bad, the oppression there, that they would get on a raft and go 90 miles over shark-infested waters to be able to get to freedom,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have people whose entire livelihoods were taken from them, their entire liberty were taken away from them and then they\u2019ve come to here in South Florida,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The governor mentioned the economic collapse of Venezuela and Nicaragua due to dictatorships that took over, arguing Venezuela has become like a \u201cthird world country.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/09\/florida-governor-ron-desantis-communism-public-education-cuba-fidel-castro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Gov. DeSantis Signs Law Requiring Schools To Teach The \u2018Evils Of Communism\u2019)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo equate Florida, which is viewed not only in our country, but even around the world, as a beachhead of freedom. To equate that with those regimes just shows you have no idea what you\u2019re talking about, and I think that it really does a disservice to the oppression that so many people in Southern Florida have faced either firsthand or through members of their family, and there\u2019s a reason why people are pouring into the state of Florida. There\u2019s a reason why we\u2019ve led the country in net migration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople, they are fleeing a lot of these bad \u2014 and not just fleeing other states, they\u2019re fleeing from Canada, they\u2019re fleeing from other places to be able to come to the state of Florida,\u201d he said. \u201cI realize there may be some people in the state of Florida, not in my party, but some others \u2014 politicians, who have a soft spot for dictatorships like in Cuba. They have a soft spot for people like Maduro and Ortega, and I just want people to know that I have contempt for those views because those views do not represent the values of the state of Florida, but particularly the views of the people of South Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor condemned President Joe Biden\u2019s administration at the press conference for loosening restrictions on travel and family remittances to Cuba, moves that the State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/biden-administration-measures-to-support-the-cuban-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> will support <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/donald-trump-joe-biden-response-cuba-protests-communism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cuban<\/a> entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden\u2019s plan to prop up the Cuban dictatorship represents yet another failure when it comes to standing for freedom in our hemisphere,\u201d DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1526578735012581377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Tuesday via Twitter. \u201cMoney from \u2018tourism\u2019 will go into the pockets of the Cuban regime \u2014 and will help fortify the government against those seeking freedom in Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Gov. 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