Zohran Mamdani, left; Ron DeSantis, right. (Stephani Spindal/Viewpress via Getty; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
"[W]hen I got elected, we had 300,000 more registered Democrats in Florida. Today, we have 1.4 million more Republicans. Nobody has ever seen a change that profound."
Fox News Digital reached out to DeSantis’ office as well for further comment on the exodus.
DeSantis also commented separately on Virginia voters selecting a man to be their top law enforcement officer who had envisioned the violent murder of a Republican leader and his children:
"That Virginia would elect a guy who wanted to see the children of his political opponents murdered — against a successful Republican incumbent — is a sign that the state is about to move strongly left," DeSantis said of Jay Jones’ win over incumbent Jason Miyares.
In response to an X follower who asked where DeSantis would house refugees from New York City, the governor quipped: "Southern Connecticut?"
Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins separately commented prior to Mamdani’s victory that it is heartbreaking to see what is happening politically in the northeast.
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"I guess the last thing you can say about that is ‘Don't New York Our Florida’ -- Don't take your doctrine and your indoctrination and bring it down here. We're very free," Collins said.
"We stand for freedom and liberty, and we want to keep it that way. So if you're going to come to Florida, you better start espousing how we do things here."
Sharing conservative commentator Benny Johnson's collage of Mamdani calling the NYPD "Haram" -- an Islamic Sharia word for sinful or prohibited -- or for the force's defunding, Attorney General James Uthmeier remarked that the left is "so desperate for a 'W,' they'll cling to Mamdani just to get one."
Mamdani, a state assemblyman from Queens, ran on promises of rent control expansion, climate investment, and city-run groceries. His campaign did not immediately respond to DeSantis’ remarks.
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