Fresh off his midterm election win, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) responded to recent comments made by former President Donald Trump saying he won more votes in the 2020 election than DeSantis received this time.
“One of the things I have learned in this job, when you’re leading, when you’re getting things done, you take incoming fire. That’s just the nature of it,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, on Tuesday.
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DeSantis said he doesn’t think any other governor was attacked more during his first term by “corporate media.”
“All of that is just noise, and really what matters is, are you leading? Are you getting in front of issues? Are you delivering results for people, and are you standing up for folks? And if you do that, none of that stuff matters,” DeSantis added.
“At the end of the day, I would just tell people to go check out the scoreboard from last Tuesday night,” DeSantis said. “The fact of the matter is, it was the greatest Republican victory in the history of the state of Florida.”
DeSantis also pointed to the wins by Republicans statewide.
“We swept in supermajorities in the Florida legislature,” he said. “We have 85 Republicans out of 120 in our state House. We’ve never had that many before. We have 28 senators out of 40 that are Republicans.”
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DeSantis compares the Republican wins in Florida to how election results fared nationally.
“It was a hugely underwhelming, disappointing performance, especially given [President Joe] Biden’s policies are overwhelmingly unpopular. People think the country is going in the wrong direction,” he said. “When that happens, they almost always want to choose to correct that. Yet in a lot of these states, they didn’t do that.
