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I asked DeSantis’ office if he wasn’t sugarcoating the employment demand for young workers by referring to resorts rather than construction.

“I don’t like when it’s sugarcoated. I don’t like to be placated.”

Politicians who try to reassure voters and investors about a market downturn often sound as though they’re sugarcoating the downside of their own policies, but that doesn’t always mean they’re wrong.

“There’s really no way to sugarcoat it,” he said of the potential funding shortfall.

And its coach wasn’t going to sugarcoat that fact Saturday night.