By Dan Halpern
At a sports bar in Dubuque, Iowa, Ron DeSantis was taking questions from the audience. Most would have been familiar to the governor of Florida by this point in his presidential campaign trail. Would he stick it to the swamp-dwellers and oligarchs of Washington, DC, and return power to We the People? Would he claw back the billions our country gave to the useless and corrupt United Nations? A man asked DeSantis if he was familiar with the books of Samuel in the Old Testament.
“Sure,” said DeSantis, cautiously.
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