3.6%. right now they re averaging 7%. still low, but they re up. that is what rattled investors today. nobody rattled in the state of florida. the state began their 60-day latest legislative session. 60 days where governor desantis has said you ain t seen nothing yet. his fans love that. his detractors worry about that. we re all over it after this. . florida is number 1 and working together, we will ensure that florida remains the number 1 state in these united states. o build a better future. so we re hard at work, helping them achieve financial freedom. we re investing for our clients in the projects that power our economy. from the plains to the coasts,
you are very worried about it, and if you don t have it, you are worried it s coming to your place. it s a winner for almost any republican candidate. jacqui: desantis is trying to show florida as an example how he would lead. is starting out in democratic-run states and cities at all risky when you have, for instance, i think it was in new york, you had people protesting his presence, calling up, you know, issues and legislation that they have a problem with, calling, i think the governor of illinois called him homophobic ahead of his trip to chicago. does this come with as many risks as it does benefits? well, i think in some cases desantis has, for a republican, he has some of the right enemies. so if he has democrats screaming about the don t say gay thing, then that s probably not bad for him. also he s going now to new york, pennsylvania, and illinois.
board to strengthen his position, and minimize weakness, or does he have a grand strategy or he knows this will work? i know it s more of the former, i think he move those pieces in position. also, although he s clearly contradicted himself, desantis has, from desantis 2022, very different from dissent s 2021, in 2021, he called the vaccines lifesaving. now he is like, these might be killing people, there needs to be a criminal investigation. but that also reflects a lot of sentiment of, some of the very far right bases of the republican party, and desantis does hail from that wing. he is a reactionary conservative. first, he won his congressional race in 2012, with a self published book called dreams of our founding fathers, which was all about ripping on obama, the president at the time. so this is consistent with his pattern of behavior. the other thing is he built his name in republican circles, by what is the best word to say
by most political practitioners across the spectrum it was bad as a candidate. he is under several. so to your point, you think that actually ruins him if he runs in a republican primary? yeah, i certainly do. well, depending on what happens. i m talking to you from west palm beach. i think governor desantis is going to have a large victory. it seems to me hills opponent is out of floor and doesn t have anything of the money compared to what desantis has, and that s really the shiny object. i mean these things happen naturally. donald trump is trying to run a third time. yeah. for the presidential office, you know. it is just a natural progression. plus, i remember the days when we used to criticize the last candidate, the last nominee that lost. he lost to biden. no matter what other people think about it right, romney wasn t exactly embraced i only have 30 seconds, sam. you mentioned being in florida. desantis, you were with trump in 2015, he was underestimated, he did ge
disney world and this is the usual of a billion dollars or so in debt that shifts from disney to somebody. how does that sort out if they can t sort this out. i think right now we re waiting for the other shoe to drop, if you will. governor desantis has said that disney is responsible for that. he has not explained the legal theory to get around what seems to be an obligation from the state to take care of that debt. in terms of a lawsuit, taxpayers are not going to be able to file a lawsuit until it s right, that specifically show a law that specifically impacted them. in it particular lawsuit, it was in the future, it s possible that they may have this obligation, but the legislation that exists right now does not specifically say that taxpayers will be responsible for that, that is disney s argument, but that remains to be seen and governor desantis maintained he does not agree with that. that s why that particular