DeSantis Campaign Press Release - Ron DeSantis: "Your hard-working employees are going to have a friend in the White House, and I think we're going to be able to turn this country around."

DES MOINES, Iowa – During a CNN Republican Presidential Town Hall tonight, Ron DeSantis responded to a voter's question about the economy:

VOTER: "Welcome, Governor. And first of all, thank you for your service. As a veteran, it's important to recognize your services and Americans. So thank you very much. Thank you. Why should my employees trust you to return us to the prosperity that they enjoyed under President Trump?"

DESANTIS: "Well, Tim, thanks for the question. I hope your business is doing well. I know things are tough right now with a lot of things. They could trust me for a couple of reasons. One, if you look at what we've done in Florida, our economy is ranked number one of all 50 states, we've boomed like we've never had, even in the face of all the inflation and the interest rates, which we have to obviously struggle with too. But our unemployment rate is 60% lower than states like California, which are peer states. I'd also say this, I think the first three years of the Trump administration, the economy is better than it has been. But that last year with COVID, I think was mishandled dramatically. Shutting down the country was a huge mistake. Printing trillions and trillions of dollars was a huge mistake. That set the foundation for the inflation that we see. Granted, Biden came in and poured gas on the fire, it was reckless that he did trillions. But if you look, you have trillions and trillions of dollars, of course, you're paying more for that. You're gonna have inflation when that happens. So I'm going to come in, we're gonna get the inflation down, we're going to open up energy so that you pay less for gas, and we're gonna get the interest rates down so you can actually do things like afford a home. So I think your hard-working employees are going to have a friend in the White House and I think we're going to be able to turn this country around."

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