Governor Ron DeSantis' Presidential Candidacy Speech

The Transcript from the twitter space where he announced his candidacy. Roughly 300k listeners tuned into the space that hosted the speech and subsequent discussion.

CORRECTION: Only 300k listeners were present during DeSantis Speech. Mario Nawfal made a misleading tweet that seemingly suggested there were three spaces that hosted the speech. Only one was successful, which was the second Space hosted by @DavidSacks

Ron DeSantis: “Well I am running for President of The United States to lead our great American come back. Look we know our country is going in the wrong direction. We see it with our eyes. We feel it in our bones.

Our southern border’s collapsed. Drugs are pouring into the country. Our cities are being hollowed out by spiking crime. The Federal government is making it harder for average family to make ends-meat and to obtain and maintain a middle class lifestyle.

Our President, well he lacks vigor, flounders in the face of our nations challenges, and he takes his queues from the ‘Woke Mob.’

I don’t think it has to be this way. American decline is not inevitable. It is a choice, and we should choose a new direction, a path that will lead to American revitalization. We must restore sanity to our nation. This means embracing fiscal and economic sanity. Stop pricing hard working americans out of good standard of living, through inflationary ‘borrow, print, and spending’ policies, and please embrace American energy independence. This also means replacing the ‘Woke Mind Virus’ with reality, facts and enduring principles. Merit MUST trump identity politics.

We must return normalcy to our communities. America is a sovereign Country. Our borders MUST be respected. We cannot have foreigners pouring into our country illegally by the millions, and we cannot allow drug cartels to poison our population with fentanyl. The public deserves safe communities, and law and order must be maintained in American cities. We can’t have inmates running the asylum, and we must reject the tax on the men and women of law enforcement.

We also must re-establish integrity in our institutions. This includes the military. I’m proud to be a Navy veteran, an Iraq veteran, and I revere our services. But when revered institutions, like those in our military, are more concerned with matters not central to the mission, whether its global warming, or gender ideology and pronouns, morale declines and recruiting suffers. You need to eliminate these distractions, and we need to get focused on the core mission.

We also cannot have true constitutional government if the most significant issues are decided by the whims of unelected bureaucrats, rather than the People’s elected representatives. Re-establishing integrity in our institutions means we must reinvigorate our constitutional system by returning the government to its rightful owners, We the People.

No social or economic transformation, without representation.

Truth needs to be our foundation, and common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue, and in Florida we proved it could be done. We chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder. We held the line when freedom hung in the balance.

We’re thriving as a result. Florida is the nation’s fastest growing state, number one in net in-migration, number one in new business formations, recently ranked number one in education, we have a 50 year low crime rate, and one of the lowest tax and debt per capita in America.

But, we also understand governing is not entertainment. It’s not about building a brand or virtue signaling, it is about delivering results. And our results in Florida have been second to none. And we can, and we must deliver big results for America.

I pledge to be an energetic executive that will take on the important issues.

Biden’s pursued inflationary policies that are hurting working people. we will reverse those policies and well build an economy where working Americans can achieve a good standard of living.

Biden’s opened the southern border and allowed a massive amounts of drugs to pour into the country. Well shut down the border, construct a border wall, and hold the drug cartels accountable.

Biden’s embraced medical authoritarianism such as unconstitutional Covid vax mandates we will ensure that those violations of liberty can never happen again.

Biden’s allowed woke ideology to drive his agenda. We will never surrender to the woke mob, and we will leave woke ideology in the dust-bin of history.

Biden’s also politicized the military and caused recruiting to plummet. We will eliminate ideological agendas from our military, focus the military on the core mission, and we will reverse the poor recruiting trends.

Finally, Biden’s weaponized the power of the administrative state to advance his left wing agenda.

We will re-constitutionalize the Executive Branch, and we’ll bring the administrative state to heal. Now, you can’t do any of that if you don’t win. There is no substitute for victory. We must end the culture of losing that has infected the Republican party in recent years. The tired dogmas of the past are inadequate for a vibrant future. We must look forward, not backwards. We need the courage to lead, and we must have the strength to win.

And to voters who are participating in the primary process, my pledge to you is this:

‘If you nominate me, you can set your clock to January 20 2025 at high noon because on the west side of the US capitol, I will be taking the Oath of Office as the 47th President of the United States. No excuses, I will get the job done.’

Now these past few years have given me a new appreciation for the fragility of our freedoms. I never thought I would see things in America that we saw during the Covid-19 pandemic, but our founding fathers were keenly aware of the fragility of freedom. When they framed our Constitution, they came armed with having studied the history of every Republic in the history of mankind, and they noticed that all of those experiments only had one thing in common, and it was this:

‘Every single one of them had failed.’

And so they knew it fell to our Country, the United States of America, to determine whether people could really govern themselves. Could we have a society based on the idea that our rights are god given not government granted, and that society functions based on the rule of law, and on not the rule of individual men. And when Dr. Benjamin Franklin walked out of that convention he was asked, ‘Did you deliver a republic or a monarchy,’ he said, ‘A Republic, if You can keep it.’

They knew freedom didn’t run on auto pilot. They new each generation would have a responsibility to safeguard freedom, and it’s our responsibility to do so at this important juncture in our Nation’s history. We have a lot of work to do to ensure the Country gets back on track.

I ask everybody listening to please join me on this mission.

Please invest in our campaign by going to rondesantis.com, and making a donation.

Thank you, god bless, and I look forward to the discussion.”