DeSantis wins over Pennsylvania grassroots activists and leaves no doubt he's running
by Salena Zito, National Political Reporter
April 03, 2023 07:00 AMCAMP HILL, Pennsylvania — Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) left little doubt during his speech Saturday to Keystone State conservatives gathered for the annual Pennsylvania Leadership Conference: He is running for the Republican nomination for president. Nothing and no one will get in his way of doing that.
“We have a responsibility to preserve what the founders of our country called the sacred fire of liberty,” the Florida governor said in his closing remarks of the nearly hourlong speech that brought attendees at the Penn Harris conference center, even those with red MAGA hats on, to their feet several times.
DeSantis told the crowd “the fire of liberty” began right here in this state in 1776 at Independence Hall in Philadelphia “when 56 men pledged their lives to establish a new nation” and continued down the road in Gettysburg when the nation's first Republican president pledged this nation to a new birth of freedom.
Continuing that fire of liberty, he said, “is a responsibility that we as conservatives have at this time in our history. It's not something that we should shrink from. It's something that we should welcome. We need to be strong. We need to hold the line. And we can never, ever back down."
“I can tell you this: I'm proud of what we've done in Florida," DeSantis said. "We're going to do more, but I have only begun to fight because we are going to save liberty in this country. God bless you all."
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