The Florida governor and Republican White House hopeful has pronounced his own last name in different ways over the years, sometimes in the same day.
Americans are getting to know Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as he mounts a bid for the White House. Now, they’ll have to figure out how to pronounce his last name. He has gone back and forth between Dee-Santis and Deh-Santis over the years. In his presidential campaign launch ad on Wednesday night, he introduced himself as Dee-Santis, but in a follow-up video just a little later he went by the other one. The DeSantis campaign did not immediately respond to an inquiry on Thursday into the preferred pronunciation. But the Dee-Santis or Deh-Santis question – albeit a trivial one – has prompted puzzlement for several years in Florida politics.
