DeSantis inches closer to presidential run announcement with California speech – live

Florida governor condemns other states’ Covid responses and celebrates Florida as a ‘citadel of freedom’ in speech

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Ron DeSantis skipped the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, leaving Donald Trump to dominate the annual event.

In his CPAC speech, Trump did not directly criticize DeSantis, although he did attack those Republicans who “want to destroy our great Social Security system”.