I am replacing my words of concession with an uncompromised and unapologetic call that we count every single vote.

Ron DeSantis

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So no, we're not shutting down, we're going to go forward, we're going to continue to protect the most vulnerable. We're going to urge, continue to advise, particularly our elderly population to maintain social distancing, avoid crowds.

Some of these guys -- they go to work in a school bus, and they are all just like packed there like sardines, going across like Palm Beach County or some of these other places, and( there's) all these opportunities to have transmission.

We'll be able to make those decisions about what precautions need to be taken as you get closer, but to just rule out a convention at this stage, I think, is a mistake, so we've said we want to get to' yes' on it, and I think you'll be able to do it.

You look at how this disease is transmitted, it's transmitted overwhelmingly when you are in close, sustained contact with people, usually in an indoor environment, going forward, we got to be promoting people to get exercise, do it in a good way, to do it in a safe way.

We cannot afford to have people who aren't even Floridians dumped into South Florida using up those valuable resources.

The point is we need those folks coming in to self-isolate for 14 days.

As soon as we get this stuff here or in Orlando we're getting it out, all of this stuff is in such short supply around the world and around our country, but particularly involving these collection swabs to take the samples. As soon as we get them we push them out. So we'll be pushing out a thousand swabs to Miami-Dade, another thousand swabs to Broward, another thousand swabs to Hillsborough( counties).

At the same, though, we cannot be bringing people over here who want to do things like this with our country.

There's obviously going to be a lot of questions about this individual being a foreign national, being a part of the Saudi Air Force and then to be here training on our soil, obviously.

The government of Saudi Arabia needs to make things better for these victims. They are going to owe a debt here, given that this was one of their individuals.