<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly told a reporter earlier this week that they were &#8220;wrong&#8221; after he dismantled the journalist&#8217;s accusation that he unfairly favored a supermarket chain because of a donation to his political committee.</p>
<p>During the presser, the reporter claimed without evidence that DeSantis gave COVID-19 vaccination rights to Publix because the chain previously donated $100,000 to his political committee, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzu_9PIoQzE">according</a> to Forbes.</p>
<p>&#8220;First of all, what you&#8217;re saying is wrong, that&#8217;s a fake narrative,&#8221; DeSantis told the reporter.</p>
<p>DeSantis noted that the first pharmacies that had the COVID-19 vaccine in his state were CVS and Walgreens, not Publix. &#8220;They had a long-term care mission, so they were going to the long-term care facilities,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;They got vaccine in the middle of December, they started going to the long-term care facilities the third week of December. So it was their mission; that was very important and we trusted them to do that.&#8221;</p>
<p>By January, the state wanted to expand access to the vaccine for Florida residents. &#8220;As we got into January, we wanted to expand the distribution points &#8230; you had some drive-through sites, you had hospitals that were doing a lot, but we wanted to get it into communities more, so we reached out to other retail pharmacies: Publix, Walmart — obviously CVS and Walgreens had to finish that mission and we said we&#8217;re going to use you as soon as you&#8217;re done with that,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Publix was &#8220;the first one to raise their hand and say they were ready to go,&#8221; DeSantis said, and their work was on a &#8220;trial basis.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I had three counties — I actually showed up that weekend and talked to seniors across four different Publix,&#8221; he said. The governor asked for feedback from the seniors about the vaccination experience and said it was a &#8220;100% positive&#8221; reaction. &#8220;So we expanded it,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Places like Palm Beach &#8220;were kind of struggling at first in terms [of seniors being vaccinated],&#8221; the Republican said. So he met with the county mayor, the administrator, and other folks at Palm Beach County and offered some options to increase access. &#8220;We can do more drive-through sites, we can give more to hospitals, we can do the Publix thing, we can do this,&#8221; DeSantis recalled. &#8220;They calculated that 90% of their seniors live within a mile and a half of a Publix and they said we think that would be the easiest thing for our residents. So we did that.&#8221;</p>
<p>DeSantis noted that Palm Beach is a Florida county with a heavy elderly population. Thus far, the governor emphasized, &#8220;almost 75% of the seniors in Palm Beach&#8221; have been vaccinated, &#8220;and the reason is because you have the strong retail footprint.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So our way has been multifaceted, it has worked. And we&#8217;re also now very much expanding CVS and Walgreens now that they&#8217;ve completed the long-term care mission.&#8221;</p>
<p>When the reporter continued down the same line of questioning, the governor pushed back, &#8220;It&#8217;s wrong, it&#8217;s wrong, it&#8217;s a fake narrative.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I just disabused you of the narrative and you don&#8217;t care about the facts because obviously I laid it out for you in a way that is irrefutable, and so it&#8217;s clearly —,&#8221; DeSantis started in.</p>
<p>&#8220;No, no, no,&#8221; the governor told the reporter before moving on to a new journalist. &#8220;You&#8217;re wrong, you&#8217;re wrong, you&#8217;re wrong.&#8221;</p>
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