During a news conference about COVID-19 testing in West Palm Beach Thursday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that the anniversary of the January 6 Capitol riot is “Christmas” for Democrats and the mainstream media.

"I don’t expect anything good to come out of anything that Pelosi and the gang are doing. I don’t expect anything from the corporate press to be enlightening. I think it’s going to be nauseating, quite frankly, and I’m not going to do it,” he said, adding that most Floridians would not pay attention either. ​

H​e also ​condemned comparisons of January 6 to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, describing the idea as an “insult.”