Reid: DeSantis’ Authoritarian Impulses Align with His Campaign Donation Strategy

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REID: "Just to stay with you just for a moment, because it always seems that Ron DeSantis’s authoritarian impulses also seem to align with his campaign donation strategy, right? His views on Covid just happened to benefit one of his biggest donors that had a treatment for Covid that he then did popup shops and you should go get your treatment. 'Don't worry, go ahead and get Covid, we won’t stop you. We'll have no mask mandates. But if you get Covid, you need to go to this popup shop where my biggest donor is.' You know, he gave out the vaccines through Publix, which happens to be one of his biggest donors. Everything seems to align with this. This particular thing, where is the payoff to DeSantis? I’m sorry, everything that he does, I’m always looking for where the money goes back to the campaign coffers. He’s now targeted the cruise industry, which is one of the other biggest tourism factors to the state of Florida. He’s attacked Planned Parenthood. We get that. That gets the right wingers all tweaked up. School districts and teachers, a huge voting bloc that he’s now attacking. And Disney. How does he think that that benefits him politically? Because that’s the only reason he does anything."