Ron DeSantis has been very lucky that the media's only talking about his ridiculous
culture wars and not about his actual record in Florida, which is disgusting. The state ranks
among the last in the country in nearly every metric that matters to voters. I have Ring of
Fire's Farron Cousins with me to talk about what's happening. You know, interesting thing, I think we
started doing stories about what was happening in Florida and people said, well, you got a national
show. Why are you worrying about Florida? We did stories on his ridiculous effort to do away with
the Democratic Party. You remember that? And how he was gonna make bloggers register and be fined
if they don't register. And then the latest is to do away with the First Amendment and try to change
New York Times versus Sullivan. So we did all those stories to let the public know that if he's
in charge as president, you better be ready for something. And it ain't gonna be pretty. Right?
No. I mean, what has happened to the state of Florida is so much worse than what most people
realize because it's not just the culture war stuff, I know that's what grabs the headlines,
but across the state, people are suffering economically. We're suffering educationally.
We're suffering as consumers. Across the board, this state has become, you know,
by almost every metric, one of the worst in the country. We're 49th in teacher pay. We are the
worst in the country, by the way, of knowledge retention from students from fourth to eighth
grade. So our children in Florida statistically get dumber as they move through school compared
to every other state in the country. Okay. Just so there is, we're talking
objective numbers here. Yes.
School, we're last, at the bottom where it comes to educating our kids. Healthcare, at the bottom
in taking care of our healthcare in Florida. Elder care, at the bottom. I'm talking about
like number 47 through 50 kind of bad. Salaries, the lowest in the nation. Unemployment benefits
are the stingiest in the nation. Although taxpayers in Florida, the privileged pay,
the privileged pay what? 1 to 2% taxes. Everybody else pays 12% taxes. And you just look, all you
gotta do is look at this and say, okay, well this is his legacy. This is, take all this stuff, put
it up here on his head and that's what you got. This is the guy that's running for president of
the United States, and all you have to do is look at what he did to Florida. Disgusting record in
Florida. The latest takes away people's right to sue when they've been injured, malpractice, when
their home gets blown away in a hurricane. All of these rights have been trampled on by this man
who wants to be president of the United States. And it gets so much worse too, because in terms
of life expectancy, life expectancy in Florida continues to fall. We're among the top in the
country in cancer death, diabetes, drug overdoses, teen birth rates, infant mortality. And I was
having to look up statistics the other day, we are among one of the worst states in the country
with the rise in violent crime. So what we see in states like New York is a massive rise in property
crime. But down here in Florida, property crime is declining, but violent crime is rising. So yes,
in New York, you're more likely to get mugged, but in Florida you're more likely to get killed
or beaten half to death because violent crime is becoming so rampant throughout the state.
Yeah. Okay. So let's talk about the media's handling on this. The media's handling on this is
like a yawn. Okay. The only thing they know how to do is hate talk. Let's hate on this guy. Remember
he was running against Charlie Crist, let's talk about the hate aspect of him. Let's hate on Ron
DeSantis. They had all of this stuff to talk to and Charlie Crist was doing the same thing. That's
why he lost. He had all of this material, last in schools, last in healthcare, last in elder care,
last in employment. I mean, you could go down this list, but the media is so dumbed down now that the
all they're looking for is low hanging fruit. Yeah. And I'll tell you another reason Charlie
Crist couldn't talk about this because, you know, plenty of these numbers started.
With him. On his watch when he was governor,
a governor as a Republican. Yeah. Yeah.
And then from Rick Scott, who you know, should have been in jail
instead of the governor's mansion. Yeah. For stealing $1.6 billion,
who's now a senator in Florida. So we have just had a string, Jeb Bush before
Charlie. My god, we have been cursed down here in Florida, but this is as bad as it's been. And I'm
terrified to see what could come after this guy, because you know it's not gonna get any better.
Take all of these bad statistics, hang it around his neck and you tell me that this is a guy you
want to vote for, for president of the United States. You know, that's really the story here,
isn't it? Yep.