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Zorro

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Thu Jul 16, 2020, 12:56 AM Jul 2020

PolitiFact: Ron DeSantis falsely claims he was never asked about COVID-19

The governor's new narrative about Florida's rising coronavirus numbers isn't based in fact. Here are the receipts.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has a new narrative about Florida’s rising COVID-19 numbers: As cases leveled off in May, the media stopped covering the story, and the public grew complacent.

DeSantis made this case during his July 2 meeting in Tampa with Vice President Mike Pence, where he said that the pandemic "fell out of the news." at the end of May and beginning of June.

A week earlier, DeSantis said the media had returned its attention to the pandemic as the caseload grew in June amid reopenings of restaurants, shops and beaches.

“Well, I think now this is back in the news. I think people understand. Look, it was natural. It wasn’t much, I mean, I would do press events in May, I would never be asked about coronavirus,” DeSantis said June 26. “It was about all these other things. Now it’s something that they are (asking about).”

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2020/07/15/politifact-ron-desantis-falsely-claims-he-was-never-asked-about-covid-19/
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PolitiFact: Ron DeSantis falsely claims he was never asked about COVID-19 (Original Post) Zorro Jul 2020 OP
Fed's fault, DeSantis? OAITW r.2.0 Jul 2020 #1
Fell out of the news? PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #2
We know what he watches. Marcuse Jul 2020 #3
I quit brushing my teeth because Mom stopped reminding me. Midnight Writer Jul 2020 #4
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