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DESANTIS: “And he criticized me every step of the way, Dan. He criticized us for having businesses open. He criticized us for having beaches open. He criticized us for having kids in school over two years ago. We were the only big state in the country to have 100 percent in-person. He was a leading advocate for school closures. He tried to sow fear in the population and scared a lot of parents, and he did have a constituency. At first, almost everyone was following him. Then, as more people saw, he had more people that rejected what he said, but he still had a lot of people that actually believed what he was saying, and he was wrong on all the important issues. And my fear is if the Republicans take control, they need — we need a reckoning on all of this. Because I think people like Fauci, what they’re going to say in the future is, oh, we didn’t lock down hard enough, that’s why it didn’t work. And we can never go down that road.”