DeSantis Sets Up a New Office to Investigate Voter Fraud

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Ruben Navarrette: Florida has charged and is in the process of arresting 20 individuals across the state for voter fraud. He says DeSantis set up a new office to investigate voter fraud, which I imagine is how we get to these arrests. "It's clear that if you buy that there was widespread election fraud in the 2020 election, so far, arresting 20 people who seem to have been confused about whether or not they had the right to vote?" he asks.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has hit on a winning — if possibly unethical — campaign strategy: prosecuting people who accidentally committed voter fraud. The Tampa Bay Times’s Lawrence Mower explains.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Siona Peterous, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Jillian Weinberger, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, who also edited.

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