Ron DeSantis credits 'Rust Belt' values with surviving Ivy League liberalism

Ron DeSantis credits 'Rust Belt' values with surviving Ivy League liberalism

Gov. Ron DeSantis may be the pride of Dunedin, but when it came to surviving the liberal crucibles of Yale and Harvard Law School, so-called “Rust Belt” values were what got him through.

The Governor offered that insight during an appearance on the Fox News Channel‘s “Life, Liberty, and Levin,” which is set to air Sunday evening.

“My father’s from western Pennsylvania, my mother’s from Northeastern Ohio. So that is like steel country. That is like blue collar salt of the earth and, as you know Mark, Florida’s very eclectic. People kind of come from all over, we do have a culture and so I grew up in that culture, but really it was kind of those Rust Belt values that raised me.”

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