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Kelly McClure

DeSantis defends Musk amidst controversy

In a segment of State of the Union on Sunday, Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis came to Elon Musk's defense, weighing in on his recent antisemitic conspiracy theory controversy by not really weighing in at all.

Speaking to Jake Tapper, who asked for his opinion on the matter seeing as though he announced his campaign on Musk's platform earlier this year, DeSantis claimed to have not seen the discourse that led to many big-name advertisers pulling away from X (formerly Twitter) in which Musk backed antisemitic claims.

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