Gov. DeSantis Warns GOP on Midterms in Wake of Tenn. Special Election

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DeSANTIS: "Well, I think a couple things. One, in an off-year midterm, the party in power’s voters tend to be more complacent. The party out of power, they get upset, right? That’s just the nature of midterms. We saw it when Obama was in and Republicans — so that dynamic is always going to be there. Now I think Republicans have an issue that Donald Trump has created a big pool of voters, but some of them are unique to him, right? So they’ll go vote for Trump and they’ll vote for all Republicans when Trump is on the ballot. But if he’s not on the ballot, some of them don’t vote. Now, you can overcome that. We did in Florida in 2022. You know, we had a state that was a purple state, one-point state. We won by million and a half votes, 20 points, the biggest Republican win ever. But we did that based on results and substance. We did it by flying under a banner of bold colors, not pale pestos. We were sticking it to the left every single day and delivering big victories. So, it can be done. But I think it's like, you can’t go on 2024 and say, 'Oh, well, Republicans won this district by 10 points, so therefore we’re going to win it,' because President Trump is the reason you won it by 10 points."