July 17, 2026

Jean shorts & flip flops: Ron DeSantis on his first day at Yale | Trending Now

Ron DeSantis says he didn't know Ivy League colleges were liberal until he arrived at Yale in jean shorts and flip flops. In this conversation, the Florida Governor talks about his upbringing, his nurse mother from Youngstown, Ohio, and his father from the steel towns of western Pennsylvania. He shares his recollection of feeling like an outsider on campus and describes how, by his account, the liberal environment at Yale and Harvard Law School pushed him further to the political right rather than the left. A personal look at how DeSantis says his college years shaped the conservative politician he became.

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