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The Florida governor created an election crimes unit that placated election deniers. It led to scores of “zany-burger” tips, and, according to one Republican, “Kabuki theater.”
It resembled a political rally more than a news conference. In November 2021, exactly one year after Donald Trump lost the presidential election to Joe Biden, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke to a raucous crowd in a hotel conference room just a few miles from Trump’s home base of Mar-a-Lago. Their suspicions about vast election malfeasance would be heard, DeSantis promised. He was setting up an election police unit and he invited the crowd to send in tips about illegal “ballot harvesting,” noddin
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