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I bring you good news from sunny Florida, my friends.

And as some of you will obviously be able to hear, I'm at CPAC.

Having a bit of a reunion with so many of my freedom-loving friends and colleagues here.

Day one, it's relatively calm, but I know it's going to fill up with thousands and thousands of folks.

Florida for a New Yorker right now is the closest thing I think you can have as an American

to fleeing East Berlin for West Berlin circa 1965.

You get down here and there's mask requirements.

You get down here and there are people who are taking precautions.

They're social distancing, but there's a difference in overall feeling where you're going forward

with your life. You're going to keep operating your store.

You're going to keep showing up for work.

People are going to keep moving forward.

And it's just such a difference. It's amazing.

Feeling it all around you. See it going on.

And I got to tell you, I'm...

I feel like I worked with a Florida tourism board every time I come down here.

But Ron DeSantis deserves so much credit for this.

It's done such an excellent job.

And in the face of unbelievable pressure and criticism.

Let's see, Pack, I'll have more stories for you tomorrow on this one right now.

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