Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis revealed the key to his winning leadership strategy.
DeSantis joined “Fox & Friends” this week and shared the “cheat code” he used to make Florida so successful, so other states can use his method. According to him, all it takes is watching states like New York and California to know what to do.
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LMAO! GOV. RON DESANTIS says it PERFECTLY:
“I have a cheat code here.”
“All I got to do is look to New York, Illinois, California, Washington State, and then just do the OPPOSITE of what they’re doing.”
“And that works out very, very well!”
“Florida has been one of the… pic.twitter.com/A80x9irQki
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 1, 2026
“They’ll be like ‘Oh man, Florida, you guys did this, you did that, man, we want other states to be like you, how did you do it?’ And look, we’ve done a lot, we’ve led on a lot, and I’m proud of that, but I also have a cheat code here,” the governor said. “All I got to do is look to New York, Illinois, California, Washington State, and then just do the opposite of what they’re doing. And that works out very, very well.”
“And so yes, they’ve repelled a lot of people from their states. Florida has been one of the places, of course, for refuge. I think we’ve had more adjusted gross income move into the state of Florida since I’ve been governor that has ever moved into any state in America and the history of the country, even adjusted for inflation. And then you look at guys like Ken Griffin, moved his company down, there’s jobs, increases the tax base,” DeSantis continued, adding that “the amount of philanthropy we’ve seen, I mean, he’s given probably hundreds of millions of dollars, probably more, and moved the philanthropy down to Florida!”
“They never talk about that,” co-host Lawrence Jones noted.
X users reacted to DeSantis’s “cheat code”:
Winning strategy… keep it going
— Chad Neibert (@cneibert13) May 1, 2026
Florida is becoming the headquarters for the American Dream because it’s the one place that still treats taxpayers like customers instead of ATM machines.
— Edamommy (@Edamommy03) May 1, 2026
Do the opposite of what Dems do and believe the opposite of what the zombie media says and it makes you intelligent, honest, and effective.
The Dems are the best example of what NOT to do I’ve ever seen.— jhawkjoe (@joemill36846262) May 1, 2026
At what point does MAGA start considering Ron DeSantis as the guy for us in 2028.
— Mr. Tweak
(@WharryMax) May 1, 2026
