He's been governor for more than seven years now, and during that time, more Americans have moved into his state than into any other state in the country.

I'm here in the governor's mansion in Tallahassee to see if I can figure out why.

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, on Uncommon Knowledge Now. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. The Forty-Novemberg, I'm Peter Robinson.

The 46th governor of the state of Florida, Ronald Dion DeSantis, grew up in Dunedin, just north of Clearwater.

He studied history at Yale, where he was captain of the varsity baseball team, a successor

to George H.W. Bush in that position, earned his law degree from Harvard and then served as

a lawyer in the Navy deploying to Iraq.

Elected to Congress in 2012, Ron DeSantis served three terms in the House.

In 2018, he was elected to his

first term as governor of Florida by four-tenths of one percent of one point. Four years later,

Governor DeSantis was re-elected by almost 20 points. Since Florida limits his governors to two

terms, Ron DeSantis is now in his final year.

Governor, thanks for the invitation to join you here. Well, welcome to Florida. You know,

it's interesting. When I was growing up, I never would see a California license plate in Florida.

I mean, California is the place everyone wanted to go to. Then I get into my term and things start

happening. We start seeing these California license plates.

And because the state was so competitive, as you alluded to,

one point races were the norm in this state through 2018.

My supporters were like, Governor, these California people,

they're going to turn us blue.

And actually it was the opposite.

These were people who were coming to Florida, going all the way across the continent,

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