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DeSantis Campaign Press Release - Ron DeSantis: "[Donors] are not going to let [Nikki] be tough on China, and she will cave to the donors. She will not stand up for you."

December 06, 2023

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – During the Fourth Republican Presidential Primary Debate, Ron DeSantis said:

"This is rich, because when [Nikki Haley] was governor of South Carolina, she was the number one ranked governor of bringing the CCP into her state. She wrote a love letter to the Chinese ambassador saying how great a friend China is. You can look at it. We put on our website: RonDeSantis.com. There's also a video of her as governor standing in front of a Chinese flag with a Chinese business saying that she now works for them - talking about this Chinese company. So she's been very weak on China. Now here's the problem. The rhetoric is different, but her donors, these Wall Street liberal donors, they make money in China. They are not going to let her be tough on China, and she will cave to the donors. She will not stand up for you."

Watch HERE.

"I banned China from buying land in the state Florida. Nikki Haley brought Confucius Institutes to the universities in South Carolina. I rejected them. So I have a record of standing up and doing what's right. And here's the thing: She's trying to say things like that. Even the liberal media groups that usually if I say the sky is blue, they'll fact check me and say that's wrong. They looked at her charges. They said it was totally false that they could not find one instance of me recruiting a Chinese business coming to Florida. Why? Because we never recruited any Chinese business to the state of Florida."

Watch HERE.

Ron DeSantis, DeSantis Campaign Press Release - Ron DeSantis: "[Donors] are not going to let [Nikki] be tough on China, and she will cave to the donors. She will not stand up for you." Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/370661

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