Exclusive: Ron DeSantis rejects Trump’s 2020 election claims: 'Of course he lost'

foreign so you recently said the election is what it is you said all those theories that were put out did not prove to be true so can we just put this to bed so you don't have to be asked about this a million more times yes or no did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election whoever puts their hand on the Bible on January 20th every four years uh is the winner and and I don't think the election and I've pointed out in that same quote and I've said this from the very beginning when they changed the rules for covet I think that was wrong I think some of those changes were unconstitutional when they do Mass mail ballots I think that's wrong I think ballot harvesting is wrong I think the Zucker bucks were wrong I think the fact that the FBI was working with Facebook and these other tech companies to censor the hunter Biden story uh was wrong and so I don't think it was the perfect election I remember after a lot of the media was saying this is the most secure election history how could it be the most secure with those millions of mail belts going out on the same time at the time after the election they were talking about Maduro oh stealing votes on the voting machines or whatever and none of those theories proved to be true but here's the issue that I think is important for Republican voters to think about why did we have all those male votes because of trump turned the government over to fauci they Embrace lockdowns they did the cares act which funded mail-in ballots across the country Donald Trump signed that bill that funded the mail ballots that all the Republicans have been so concerned about and also with the censorship of the hunter Biden that was Donald Trump's FBI that was working with that he didn't have control over his own government so me as the nominee we will not let them run circles around us if there is ballot in Florida we ban ballot harvesting right I think that's what you should do if there is ballot harvesting that's allowed in like Nevada we are going to do it too we're not going to fight with one hand tied behind our backs and so I think all of those issues were very problematic but at the end at the end of the day you know Donald Trump helped facilitate that whole set of circumstances okay but respectfully you did not clearly answer that question and if you can't give a yes or no one whether or not Trump lost then how of course no of course he lost Trump lost the 2020 election Joe Biden's the president but the issue is I think what what people in the media and elsewhere they want to act like somehow this was just like the perfect election so I don't think uh it was it was a good run election but I also think Republicans didn't fight back you've got to fight back when that is happening and you shouldn't have provided all the money to fund the mail-in ballots thanks for watching our YouTube channel follow today's top stories and breaking news by downloading the NBC News app

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Length: 3min 3sec (183 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 07 2023