Florida Governor Descentis Burnishes His Credibility With COVID

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Descentis is someone who he was kind of contrarian to his own party in some ways in Florida. He became kind of a national leader for bucking Anthony Fauci. Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the field.

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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