Recently, Gov. Ron DeSantis sat down with me for a one-hour interview.
I started by praising him for keeping Florida largely open during COVID.
"I just had to make the decision as a leader," says DeSantis. "Are you gonna worry about the daily news cycle? Worry about your personal popularity? ... I did not know how it was going to work out politically. I was going to do what I thought was right."
That worked well for Floridians. "If you look at excess mortality, we were the lowest in the Sunbelt and (had) lower excess mortality than California and New York.
