Once widely considered to be courting disaster with its coronavirus response, Florida may soon be touted as a success story and President Trump’s model for reopening.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a Trump ally, and as his state’s coronavirus numbers improve, he is telling the national media, “I told you so.” In a press availability, he said, “I was the No. 1 landing spot from tens of thousands of people leaving the No. 1 hot zone in the world to come to my state. So we’ve succeeded, and I think that people just don’t want to recognize it because it challenges their narrative, it challenges their assumption, so they’ve got to try to find a boogeyman.”