money. i think you need to have moral clarity to understand that when you re dealing with dictators in the world, that we always have to fight for democracies and human rights and protecting americans and preventing war. so when you look at donald trump, i have said i think he was the right president at the right time. i agree with a lot of his policies, but his way is not my way. i don t have vengeance. i don t have vendettas. i don t take things personally. for me, it s very much about no drama, no whining, and getting results and getting them done. so i don t think that president trump is the right president to go forward. i think it s time for a new generational leader that is going to go and make america proud again. that s what i m going to try and do. governor desantis, what is your response to chris christie? do you believe donald trump has the character to be president again? well, i m running because i m the guy that s going to be able to engineer a comeback for this coun
sue her donors issues. i m running to pursue your issues and turn this country around. i m the only one running 100% on the promises i ve made. we ve delivered huge victories in the state of florida, things republicans have been asking for a generation. i m only the one running that has beaten the left time and time again. we beat the teachers union on universal school choice. we beat sorrows on crime. we beat fauci on covid. we beat the dems on election integrity and i beat the left by banning china from buying land in the state of florida. now nikki haley is running. we don t need another mealy mouth politician who just tells you what she thinks you want to hear just to try to get your vote, then to get into office and do her donors bidding. she was in another state and she said the people of iowa s votes need to be corrected. this is somebody that wrote in her book that hillary clinton inspired her to first run for office. i remember hillary denigrating people on the republican si
you took a little piece of that. that is not true. you are lying. governor haley, governor, desantis has the floor. that s on the record. and she even proposed a tax on groceries at one point. but i m just thinking, have you seen your grocery bill lately? that s one of the things that s hitting working people the most, that groceries are going up, probably twice as much what you do. but i also think it s important that we lift people up. so in florida, we eliminated all sales tax on every baby item, diaper, wipes, stroller, cribs. we want families to be able to prosper in this country. one of the things that s causing so much problem is the breakdown in the american family. we ve done a lot in florida to be able to rejuvenate that. but we need to make it easier for people to raise children in this country so that we can have strong families and a strong country. governor desantis, at a cnn town hall last week, you said you support a flat tax, which is a single income tax rate for
because when president obama was in office, he supported foreign aid to ukraine. now he is copying trump and trying the act like he doesn t want to support ukraine. but let me tell you why ukraine should matter. first of all, i don t think he we should give cash to any country, friend or foe because you can t follow it. you can t hold it accountable. i don t believe we need to put troops on the ground and kraungs want to win this themselves. but dictators always say, always do what they say they re going to do. china said they were going to take hong kong. they did. russia said they were going to invade ukraine. we watched it. china says taiwan is next. we better believe them. russia said once they take ukraine, poland and the baltics are next. those are nato countries and that puts america at danger of war. this is about preventing war. if we support ukraine, that s only 3.5% of our defense budget. biden and no one else is about that.
it s true. i knew it was going to be a big deal for florida. we have one of the largest israeli-american populations in the country, and we ve been a haven for orthodox jews in particular since i was governor. and biden wasn t helping americans get out of the war zone. these are people who were stranded. i did an executive order, we scrambled planes, and we rescued over 700 americans from israel and brought them back safely to florida. you got is the step up and lead whenhings like this are happening. we have gone after the antisemitism on our campuses. we did that early in my administration. i just announced in the state of the state address yesterday, or two days ago that with we are going to say, not just for jewish students, anyone who is being religious persecuted or being marginalized because of their faith, in any college around the country, we re going waive the transfer requirements so that people can come to florida and be safe. what they are doing thank you, governor