TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that he doesn’t think President Donald Trump’s desire to ban voting by mail applies to Florida.

Asked about Trump’s vow on Monday to “lead a movement” to end the use of mail-in ballots, DeSantis said he thought it only applied to states that send mail ballots to all voters.

“What he means by vote my mail, I think, just in my conversations, is the states like California and Nevada and others, where they just send all these ballots out into the ether,” DeSantis said during a news conference.

He defended Florida’s system, in which voters have to request a vote-by-mail ballot.

“I think what Florida has is absentee voting,” he said. He noted that county elections supervisors don’t mail ballots to anyone who hasn’t requested one.

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