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DeSantis Won’t Rule Out Use of Missile Systems at Border, Says He’ll Leave Bad Guys ‘Stone Cold Dead’

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Apparently, the media isn’t going to move Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis from his promise to deploy military hardware to the southern border and use it against cartel members if he becomes president.

In part of a Tuesday interview with Norah O’Donnell on the “CBS Evening News” — during what Politico referred to as a “tense exchange” — DeSantis said he wouldn’t rule out launching missiles into Mexico to attack drug cartels were he president.

He added that it was “dependent on the situation.”

The exchange was precipitated by one of the more news-making super PAC ads of the young Republican primary season, in which DeSantis is featured in footage saying that “the cartels are killing tens of thousands of our fellow citizens.”

“We have to defend our people.

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