Governor Ron DeSantis acknowledged in an exclusive interview with NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns that President Joe Biden legitimately secured 81 million votes to win the 2020 election, and that Donald Trump lost.

When asked to confirm this definitively, the Governor answered in the affirmative.

“Whoever puts their hand on the Bible on January 20 every four years is the winner,” DeSantis answered.

DeSantis acknowledged the result of the election, but raised questions about its management due to alterations in voting rules, mail-in ballots, and other matters related to COVID-19.

Notably, he also brought up the FBI’s censorship of the Hunter Biden story alongside tech companies.

“When they changed the rules for COVID, I think that was wrong. I think some of those changes were unconstitutional. When they do mass mail ballots, I think that’s wrong. I think ballot harvesting is wrong. I think the Zuckerbucks were wrong. I think the fact that the FBI was working with Facebook and these other tech companies to censor the Hunter Biden story was wrong. And so I don’t think it was the perfect election,” said DeSantis.

Governor DeSantis attributed some of the issues to President Donald Trump, citing the CARES Act which provided resources to support mail-in ballots throughout the nation and was signed into law by Trump.

“Why did we have all those mail votes? Because Trump turned the government over to [Dr. Anthony] Fauci, they embraced lockdowns,” DeSantis said.

Governor DeSantis has accused Trump administration agencies of colluding with Big Tech companies to actively suppress a story involving Hunter Biden’s laptop during the 2020 election.

He suggests that this was an effort to censor the story and prevent it from being shared with the public.

“I look back at the Hunter Biden censorship, which was a huge, huge deal to happen in the 2020 election, and yet those were Donald Trump’s own agencies that were colluding with Big Tech. I would never allow that to happen. I would fire those people immediately,” said DeSantis in an interview with Maria Bartiromo.

The governor firmly rejected such as claims of vote fraud through voting machines.

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“At the time after the election, they [Trump’s camp] were talking about Maduro stealing votes on the voting machines or whatever, and none of those theories proved to be true,” said DeSantis.

DeSantis had previously stated that Trump’s claims about the 2020 election being stolen were false and such theories were “unsubstantiated.”

“All those theories that were put out did not prove to be true,”  DeSantis told a reporter during a campaign event in Northeast Iowa.

After repeated questioning from Burns, DeSantis unequivocally stated that Trump lost the election, adding, “Joe Biden’s the President.”

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