Ron DeSantis was confronted by a voter over a Dr Seuss book being removed from a Florida library.<br /><br />The Florida Governor was fielding questions at the Hampton town hall, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, 17 January.<br /><br />An attendee mentioned that someone he knew had to remove a Dr Seuss book from a library and so he wouldn’t vote for Mr DeSantis.<br /><br />Defending his book bans, Mr DeSantis said: “There’s pornographic books that are in the schools and we’ve empowered parents to object to that and to have it removed”.<br /><br />He went on to claim activists are trying to “create a reaction” by objecting to books being removed.<br /><br />Florida school districts removed roughly 300 books last school year, including various LGBTQ memoirs and award-winning novels.
