We have an obligation to make sure our public institutions are serving the best interests of the state of Florida. I don’t want the taxpayers of Florida funding that.
Meantly / Ron DeSantis
Rhetoric profile
Ron DeSantis
Across 32 statements tracked since 14 Sept 2026, Ron DeSantis's most frequent rhetorical moves are absolutes and vague promise.
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Most used moves, last 90 days
Audience impact, last 30 days
+0.1 neutral
This week against their usual
Hostility this week 1.2 / 10, in line with their usual.
Latest statements
The utilities tell us there’s some that are just going to come back on as they work through today. Some of the (local electric utility cooperatives) have some more loose ends, they’re going to get those tidied up. They feel very good about finishing up the…
Fortunately, most of that is damage assessments because there weren’t people that needed to be rescued like we’ve had to the extent in previous storms.
We are going to submit a Disaster Declaration once we get the data from the counties.
The risk of flooding is still high. Sometimes these things happen a day or two days after the storm goes through. So the flooding story is not over.
When the narratives are set, they’re set. judicial equivalent of a death-by-firing squad to the Hope Florida Hoax.
The storm is here. Buckle down at this point. Don’t be getting out on the roads.
We’ve said from the beginning we are going to assume that it’s going to make landfall as a major hurricane. And while there’s still some people that think it might weaken, it very well may, in fact, make landfall as a major hurricane. If it does shift to the…
You’re going to see water across the entire region of the Florida Panhandle.
Folks who are in the path of this storm should know that this is not going to be a random tropical system. It’s going to be a strong hurricane, and it’s going to do a lot of damage potentially.
We are taking this storm very, very seriously. We were reminiscing a little bit about Sally and the differences between that and there, Pensacola wasn’t even in the cone for Sally. It kind of shifted late, and the response was good, but there wasn’t the view…
We always say, you know, you hide from the wind, but you run from the water. When the water's rising and things are happening, it's a very, very difficult conundrum, and you do not want to be caught in that.
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