The rest of the country seems ready to speculate about his political future anyway. Gov. Ann Mayer has been in Savannah for nearly a decade and became a staple of the Savannah St. Patrick's Day Parade with her fake keister and endless stories. And that made him a hero. Ive never seen someone more popular with Republicans. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. Copyright 2022 NPR. Since he was elected governor in November 2018, more than 90,000 donations from donors with out-of-state addresses have poured into his Friends of Ron DeSantis political committee and his reelection campaign account, adding up to more than $50 million more than one-third of the roughly $140 million he has raised in that period. Two families brawled at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida on Wednesday, after a dispute in line at a Fantasyland attraction escalated into violence. Thomas has called for the review of rulings granting Americans the right to birth-control access, gay relationships, and marriage equality. Ron DeSantis sound like a presidential candidate in his Utah speech? This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. What they said to me all the time is, they feel like DeSantis has the kind of guts, the same kind of backbone as Trump, but is the newer, younger, fresher version, Walker added. Alex Roarty has written about the Democratic Party since joining McClatchy in 2017. It has become a point of contention with the GOP, and DeSantis has described it as the teaching of a "false history" that would "denigrate the Founding Fathers.". DeSantis' press secretary Christina Pushaw also dismissed the suggestions as "fabricated media narrative. WINK News asked if he was considering running. "We are also working on a lot of things in the state beyond the governor's race. Ron DeSantis speaks to the crowd during the Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam in Panama City Beach, Florida, last week. Why some Democrats and Republicans are crossing over to support the other party, Russia reopens natural gas pipeline to Europe, but supply concerns linger, Who is Matthew Pottinger? NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. A variety of polls show Trump with a large lead over DeSantis in a possible Republican presidential primary election. The amendment was introduced in 1804. DeSantis has been widely viewed as a contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, particularly if former President Donald Trump does not run. Disney CEO Bob Chapek criticized the bill, saying it could be used to unfairly target gay, lesbian, nonbinary and transgender kids and families. Start your day with the top stories you missed while you were sleeping.
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I was very responsible for his success because I endorsed him [for Florida governor] and he went up like a rocket ship," Trump said. The governor has been the subject of a profile in the New Yorker magazine published in June, a conditionally supportive tweet from billionaire industrialist Elon Musk, and an attack ad from, of all people, California Gov. I mean, he really - he is - he has built his governorship and his national stature around his COVID response. With a brief stumble he said, I dont I Ive addressed that so many times. But as those rumors continue to swirl and his chances continue to improve, hes going to get the question again and again. Any DeSantis bid would also almost certainly depend on him winning reelection this year. Trump went on to list other candidates who he claims benefited from earning an endorsement from him, such as Representative Mary Miller's victory over Representative Rodney Davis in Illinois' 15th district and state senator Darren Bailey winning the GOP primary for Illinois governor. DeSantis hasnt declared his candidacy for president. However, even if Trump is attempting to use the possibility of having DeSantis as a running mate to stop him vying for the GOP nomination in 2024 himself, there may be issues in having presidential and vice presidential candidates from the same state running on the same ticket. It's a shame, it's really a shame. Five takeaways from the first TV debate between Florida Democrats running for governor, Cruz couldnt watch as bloody Parkland images played in court. DeSantis sounded like a presidential candidate in a speech, Why Colorados governor compared Ron DeSantis to authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin, Nicols Maduro, Florida lawmakers move to suspend Disneys government-like control of properties in the Sunshine State, Are Florida Gov. Peter Feaman, a member of the Republican National Committee from Florida, said DeSantis has more appeal with the GOP base than any Republican politician hes ever seen, including former Govs. Gov. Democrats, in fact, have begun to use the perception of DeSantis White House ambition against him in their race. Every time DeSantis holds a news conference, he has an agenda.
"View Entire Post . He threw it all open. The two have clashed over their respective responses to the pandemic while Trump was in office, and Axios reported more disharmony, claiming that Trump had privately slammed DeSantis as a dull personality with no chance of beating him for the 2024 nomination.
We got school-board races," DeSantis added. Scenes from Ivana Trump's Funeral in N.Y.C. ", Under DeSantis, Florida banned the teaching of critical race theory from its schools in June. While the USSS is comprised of approximately 3,200 agents total, DHS requested communication from just two dozen agents. In a June 30 interview on Newsmax, the former president was asked if he could "envision a world" where there would be a Trump-DeSantis ticket in the next election cycle. And I think the reason for that is pretty simple. While in Utah last summer, DeSantis was scheduled to have lunch with GOP Gov. Journalist Dexter Filkins explores DeSantis's growing influence in Republican politics in the latest issue of the New Yorker, and he joins us now.
"The Daily Show" showed one image that explains why so many House Republicans voted against the Respect for Marriage Act.
Ron DeSantis of Florida on Wednesday said he didn't plan on running for president in 2024. The conversations that you have with Republicans in Florida, the conversations that I have with political folks out of Florida, there is a real desire to see what the governor is going to do, said Todd Reid, a Florida-based Republican strategist and former longtime aide to Sen. Marco Rubio. All rights reserved. Jurors werent so lucky | Editorial, Officer shoots and kills 15-foot snake wrapped around mans neck, Pennsylvania cops say, Mom comes home to find her 14-year-old daughter dead and car missing, Maine cops say, Woman lay dead on her couch for 2 years. And so in front of a crowd of, you know, a thousand people or on television, he's great. President Donald Trump greets then Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis during a campaign rally at the Hertz Arena on October 31, 2018 in Estero, Florida. A retired senior Secret Service agent said the intense scrutiny surrounding the deletion of text messages around January 6 may do more harm than good. DAVIS: Well, that is the New Yorker's Dexter Filkins. And he won't - as a person I quoted in the story said to me, he won't kiss the ring. Spencer Cox and Lt. Gov. Five years later, Peyton Manning's joke at the 2017 ESPYs about Kevin Durant hopping on the bandwagons of winning teams is still making its rounds around the internet. Critical race theory, at its core, looks back at how racism and discrimination in American history still affect the country in the present. FILKINS: He did. Despite losing the 2020 presidential election, Trump retains a dedicated fan base within the GOP, and is already publicly musing about whether he should announce a new campaign later this year. One survey released this week, from the New York Times/Siena College, found 49% of people who planned to vote in the 2024 GOP presidential primary said they backed Trump. The rising star of the conservative Maga movement named for Trumps make America great again campaign slogan has beaten the former president in several recent polls of party activists, some of whom appear to finally be growing weary of Trumps big lie that the 2020 election was stolen. Four days before he was chosen by Bush, Cheney simply changed his residency to Wyoming, from where he had served in Congress. He said people should be free to choose how they take care of themselves and not be consigned to live in a Faucian dystopia governed by the whims of bureaucrats. Hes been a campaigns reporter in Washington since 2010, after covering politics and state government in Pennsylvania during former Gov. You know, Florida is changing fast. restricting how race and diversity are discussed, child protective services investigate parents who take their children to drag shows.
These days candidates run together as a unified ticket, but the requirement that electors could not cast both ballots for a person from their own state was not removed. What am I supposed to do?
I'm going to be running for reelection next year," DeSantis said in reply to Hannity's question on whether he was considering a presidential run.
If Donald Trump decides to run for president again in 2024, can anyone beat him for the party's nomination?
I dont do straw polls, they just put my name in there, DeSantis said. But even if no one can predict the future, Republicans say DeSantis popularity with conservatives is real, at least for now. He went to Yale. Ron DeSantis has not said publicly that he will not run if President Trump does. The governors next closest competitor, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, registered just 7% support in the survey, despite running once before in a GOP presidential primary in 2016. DeSantisspokeswomanLindsey Curnutte wouldnt confirm any details, saying the campaign doesnt discuss private fundraising events with members of the press, per CNBC. Republicans and conservatives, however, arent the only ones who have taken notice of DeSantis. Theyre not honest.. He speaks in complete sentences. Jeb Bush, Charlie Crist and Rick Scott. tension between him and DeSantis as "fake news. While Trump did not reject outright the possibility he would choose DeSantis as a running mate, there is still a major question mark over whether the former president would want this. DeSantis managed to include Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden and comments on the media during his stop in Lee County on water quality. ", himself from Trump amid the January 6 hearings. A new University of Nevada in Reno study puts DeSantis neck-and-neck with Trump. ", More recently, Trump dismissed DeSantis' chances of beating him in a hypothetical primary election, telling The New Yorker "I don't know if Ron is running, and I don't ask himIt's his prerogative. DeSantis sounded like a presidential candidate in a speech to conservative state lawmakers from around the country at the American Legislative Exchange Council conference in Salt Lake City last July.
Maybe. There are plenty of ways to criticize Elon Musk without engaging in body shaming.View Entire Post , Ivana was buried Wednesday in a private plot at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, where former President Donald Trump is known to spend his summers, "Women are not encouraged to know about their own bodies.
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By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice and European users agree to the data transfer policy. The amendment was also noted by longtime Trump ally Roger Stone in a post on the controversial "free speech" social network Gab. We got a lot of stuff going on in Florida. DeSantis was at the center of Republican-led fights against pandemic lockdowns, racial justice protests and expanded ballot access. You know, he won this race with less than a percent of the vote. It didnt happen overnight.. Jean-Pierre later clarified her response, saying "what's important now is that he's working from the residence on behalf of the American people. FILKINS: He's really, really smart. I just know he is coming for a private function, Utah Republican Party Chairman Carson Jorgensen said in a text message Thursday. The other reason DeSantis is keeping the event under the radar, the person added, is to avoid looking like he is preparing to take on Trump in the 2024 Republican primary and provoking the former presidents ire, CNBC reported. Surges of interest in candidates, no matter how intense, can be short-lived, and political veterans caution that theres no guarantee the early signs of support for DeSantis would last by the time the primary begins. The cross-country Democratic rival aired an ad criticizing DeSantis over the Fourth of July weekend. The beaches are open. He defied - you know, he always referred to the Fauci, the Faucist (ph), you know, tyranny. The argument that DeSantis is focusing on topics more in alignment with his individual political ambitions than the good of the state he serves has traction with opponents. ", Read the original article on Business Insider. In Colorado, Republican activists at last weekends Western Conservative Summit voted 71%-67% for DeSantis over Trump in a straw poll for their preferred candidate for 2024, his second successive win (participants could offer multiple responses). That appears to be born out in polls of GOP voters about a hypothetical 2024 primary, where the governor has emerged as a clear second choice behind Trump. And I - you know, President Trump may be smart as well, but DeSantis is very, very articulate. I think I would win.". He went to Harvard. If and when Trump decides to get into the race, the interaction between those two candidates, and that relationship, will tell a great deal about how the entire election is going to play out., Republican primaries offer look into future of Trumpism without Trump, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning.
Walker, the former Wisconsin governor, said he would encourage DeSantis and others to get into a presidential primary, even running against Trump. And its made many of them sit up and take notice, even as he campaigns to win a second term as governor. His agenda in Lee County was to talk about water quality and conservation. And it was - he was an outlier during the pandemic. "The rules of the Electoral College prohibit a Presidential Candidate and a Vice Presidential candidate being from the same statein this case Floridalest they forfeit that state's electoral vote. But in a recent interview on Fox News, he didnt dispel the idea even if it means having to first beatformer President Donald Trump in the Republican primary. He was also criticized by Vice President Kamala Harris, who in Orlando on Thursday took issue with the governors support for restricting abortion rights. The 2024 Republican primary could also feature a field filled with longtime Republican stalwarts: In addition to former President Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, former South Carolina Gov. Now She's Sharing Her Journey As An Intersex Person To Be A Resource For Others. He cares more about running for the White House than your house, said Charlie Crist, a Democratic gubernatorial nominee, in an ad released Thursday. So, so go ahead, then quickly addressed the next question. This week Trump sent out emails highlighting a Morning Consult poll that showed him still in command of the Republican party nationally with 53% support, although he dropped 3% and DeSantis rose by the same mark since the previous poll in March. Do you see a typo or an error? I'm quite certain President Trump knows that," Stone wrote. What does that mean?
Ron DeSantis speaks during the American Legislative Exchange Council conference in Salt Lake City on July 28, 2021.
It would be irresponsible not to plan for some type of Biden-induced economic slowdown., Theyll try to scare people away, because thats just what they do. Even so, DeSantis remains favorite to comfortably win his re-election race in November, and use that as a likely springboard to seeking the 2024 nomination, regardless of whether Trump, who will be 78 by the time of the next election, runs again or not. Ron DeSantis and his growing strength in the Republican Party. From 1789 to 1804, electoral college voters chose from two candidates, with whoever came in second becoming vice president. DeSantis also told the Fox News host Sean Hannity he would run for reelection in Florida. Stone, who was pardoned by Trump after he was convicted of lying to Congress, has also publicly criticized DeSantis for being disloyal to the former president for apparently wanting to also run for the GOP presidential nomination. Charlie Crist and Nikki Fried faced off Thursday in the first and likely only televised debate between two candidates asking Florida Democrats to choose them in next months Aug. 23 primary as the partys nominee to take on Gov. DeSantis will be in the state the week of July 18 for the gathering, according to people familiar with the situation, CNBC reported. Crucially, the security official's testimony appears to confirm part of what Cassidy Hutchinson previously testified. ", Former co-star Mike Wolfe revealed Fritz has been hospitalized in an Instagram post, "Kamala putting her sneakers on.
DeSantis, 43, appears to offer everything that the Maga base would want in a candidate, a high-profile yet irascible and media-hostile politician who embraces the ultra-conservative tenets of Trumpism, but without the baggage of Trumps two impeachments and seven-million vote thumping in the 2020 election after a single term in office. Shocking video shows the moment people were hit with crutches and punched as a violent brawl spiraled out of control in the Fashion District's Santee Alley over the weekend. Ron DeSantis is likely to be re-elected as governor of Florida this November but has been fundraising in other, possibly with a view to a presidential run in 2024. Donors have been told that the meetings with DeSantis in Utah are likely to start early in the day on July 19. He fights more about policy and less on his Twitter account.. Crist, a congressman from St. Petersburg and a former Republican governor of Florida, has been consistently leading over Fried, the states elected agriculture commissioner, in most public polls of the race. Write CSS OR LESS and hit save. Trump, as expected, is not appreciating the prospect of being usurped by his former protege, whom he described in 2017 as a brilliant young leader. He's very fast on his feet. Russian President Vladimir Putin could be facing a second war front as Chechen forces opposed to his war in Ukraine threaten to launch their own offensive. Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democratic state congressman who has criticised the governor over concerns ranging from banning mask mandates at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic to vetoing $500m (400m) from the Florida budget for a housing program for homeless LGBTQ+ youth, challenged DeSantis this week over his latest hobby horse, a threat to have child protective services investigate parents who take their children to drag shows.
"Well I get along with him. Its amazing.. DeSantis has repeatedly said he is focusing on his job as governor and that hes not actively planning a run for the White House in 2024. The Ja, See more stories on Insider's business page, banned the teaching of critical race theory from its schools, The head of Trump's protective detail, there when the former president wanted to be taken to the Capitol on January 6, is among the 24 Secret Service members whose January 5 and 6 texts are missing, Former Trump White House security official says that if Trump walked to the Capitol on January 6 it would have become 'an insurrection, a coup', Disney World descends into chaos as 2 families brawl in huge Magic Kingdom fight, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre interrupts COVID-19 coordinator to say it 'doesn't matter' where Biden caught the virus, American Pickers Frank Fritz Has Suffered a Stroke, Joe Biden Has COVID And The Tweets About Kamala Harris Taking Over Are Here, The text deletion scandal surrounding Trump and January 6 may jeopardize the Secret Service's relationship with the people they protect, a former agent says, Her keister made her known around town, 'butt' her heart is what Savannah will miss, Trevor Noah Knows Exactly Why Republicans Are Against Interracial Couples, Justice Kagan gives pointed warning about the 'legitimacy' of the court, seemingly calling out justices with 'political social preferences', Putin faces second war front as Chechens threaten new offensive in Russia.
I was very responsible for his success because I endorsed him [for Florida governor] and he went up like a rocket ship," Trump said. The governor has been the subject of a profile in the New Yorker magazine published in June, a conditionally supportive tweet from billionaire industrialist Elon Musk, and an attack ad from, of all people, California Gov. I mean, he really - he is - he has built his governorship and his national stature around his COVID response. With a brief stumble he said, I dont I Ive addressed that so many times. But as those rumors continue to swirl and his chances continue to improve, hes going to get the question again and again. Any DeSantis bid would also almost certainly depend on him winning reelection this year. Trump went on to list other candidates who he claims benefited from earning an endorsement from him, such as Representative Mary Miller's victory over Representative Rodney Davis in Illinois' 15th district and state senator Darren Bailey winning the GOP primary for Illinois governor. DeSantis hasnt declared his candidacy for president. However, even if Trump is attempting to use the possibility of having DeSantis as a running mate to stop him vying for the GOP nomination in 2024 himself, there may be issues in having presidential and vice presidential candidates from the same state running on the same ticket. It's a shame, it's really a shame. Five takeaways from the first TV debate between Florida Democrats running for governor, Cruz couldnt watch as bloody Parkland images played in court. DeSantis sounded like a presidential candidate in a speech, Why Colorados governor compared Ron DeSantis to authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin, Nicols Maduro, Florida lawmakers move to suspend Disneys government-like control of properties in the Sunshine State, Are Florida Gov. Peter Feaman, a member of the Republican National Committee from Florida, said DeSantis has more appeal with the GOP base than any Republican politician hes ever seen, including former Govs. Gov. Democrats, in fact, have begun to use the perception of DeSantis White House ambition against him in their race. Every time DeSantis holds a news conference, he has an agenda.
"View Entire Post . He threw it all open. The two have clashed over their respective responses to the pandemic while Trump was in office, and Axios reported more disharmony, claiming that Trump had privately slammed DeSantis as a dull personality with no chance of beating him for the 2024 nomination.
We got school-board races," DeSantis added. Scenes from Ivana Trump's Funeral in N.Y.C. ", Under DeSantis, Florida banned the teaching of critical race theory from its schools in June. While the USSS is comprised of approximately 3,200 agents total, DHS requested communication from just two dozen agents. In a June 30 interview on Newsmax, the former president was asked if he could "envision a world" where there would be a Trump-DeSantis ticket in the next election cycle. And I think the reason for that is pretty simple. While in Utah last summer, DeSantis was scheduled to have lunch with GOP Gov. Journalist Dexter Filkins explores DeSantis's growing influence in Republican politics in the latest issue of the New Yorker, and he joins us now.
"The Daily Show" showed one image that explains why so many House Republicans voted against the Respect for Marriage Act.
Ron DeSantis of Florida on Wednesday said he didn't plan on running for president in 2024. The conversations that you have with Republicans in Florida, the conversations that I have with political folks out of Florida, there is a real desire to see what the governor is going to do, said Todd Reid, a Florida-based Republican strategist and former longtime aide to Sen. Marco Rubio. All rights reserved. Jurors werent so lucky | Editorial, Officer shoots and kills 15-foot snake wrapped around mans neck, Pennsylvania cops say, Mom comes home to find her 14-year-old daughter dead and car missing, Maine cops say, Woman lay dead on her couch for 2 years. And so in front of a crowd of, you know, a thousand people or on television, he's great. President Donald Trump greets then Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis during a campaign rally at the Hertz Arena on October 31, 2018 in Estero, Florida. A retired senior Secret Service agent said the intense scrutiny surrounding the deletion of text messages around January 6 may do more harm than good. DAVIS: Well, that is the New Yorker's Dexter Filkins. And he won't - as a person I quoted in the story said to me, he won't kiss the ring. Spencer Cox and Lt. Gov. Five years later, Peyton Manning's joke at the 2017 ESPYs about Kevin Durant hopping on the bandwagons of winning teams is still making its rounds around the internet. Critical race theory, at its core, looks back at how racism and discrimination in American history still affect the country in the present. FILKINS: He did. Despite losing the 2020 presidential election, Trump retains a dedicated fan base within the GOP, and is already publicly musing about whether he should announce a new campaign later this year. One survey released this week, from the New York Times/Siena College, found 49% of people who planned to vote in the 2024 GOP presidential primary said they backed Trump. The rising star of the conservative Maga movement named for Trumps make America great again campaign slogan has beaten the former president in several recent polls of party activists, some of whom appear to finally be growing weary of Trumps big lie that the 2020 election was stolen. Four days before he was chosen by Bush, Cheney simply changed his residency to Wyoming, from where he had served in Congress. He said people should be free to choose how they take care of themselves and not be consigned to live in a Faucian dystopia governed by the whims of bureaucrats. Hes been a campaigns reporter in Washington since 2010, after covering politics and state government in Pennsylvania during former Gov. You know, Florida is changing fast. restricting how race and diversity are discussed, child protective services investigate parents who take their children to drag shows.
These days candidates run together as a unified ticket, but the requirement that electors could not cast both ballots for a person from their own state was not removed. What am I supposed to do?
I'm going to be running for reelection next year," DeSantis said in reply to Hannity's question on whether he was considering a presidential run.
If Donald Trump decides to run for president again in 2024, can anyone beat him for the party's nomination?
I dont do straw polls, they just put my name in there, DeSantis said. But even if no one can predict the future, Republicans say DeSantis popularity with conservatives is real, at least for now. He went to Yale. Ron DeSantis has not said publicly that he will not run if President Trump does. The governors next closest competitor, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, registered just 7% support in the survey, despite running once before in a GOP presidential primary in 2016. DeSantisspokeswomanLindsey Curnutte wouldnt confirm any details, saying the campaign doesnt discuss private fundraising events with members of the press, per CNBC. Republicans and conservatives, however, arent the only ones who have taken notice of DeSantis. Theyre not honest.. He speaks in complete sentences. Jeb Bush, Charlie Crist and Rick Scott. tension between him and DeSantis as "fake news. While Trump did not reject outright the possibility he would choose DeSantis as a running mate, there is still a major question mark over whether the former president would want this. DeSantis managed to include Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden and comments on the media during his stop in Lee County on water quality. ", himself from Trump amid the January 6 hearings. A new University of Nevada in Reno study puts DeSantis neck-and-neck with Trump. ", More recently, Trump dismissed DeSantis' chances of beating him in a hypothetical primary election, telling The New Yorker "I don't know if Ron is running, and I don't ask himIt's his prerogative. DeSantis sounded like a presidential candidate in a speech to conservative state lawmakers from around the country at the American Legislative Exchange Council conference in Salt Lake City last July.
Maybe. There are plenty of ways to criticize Elon Musk without engaging in body shaming.View Entire Post , Ivana was buried Wednesday in a private plot at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, where former President Donald Trump is known to spend his summers, "Women are not encouraged to know about their own bodies.
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By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice and European users agree to the data transfer policy. The amendment was also noted by longtime Trump ally Roger Stone in a post on the controversial "free speech" social network Gab. We got a lot of stuff going on in Florida. DeSantis was at the center of Republican-led fights against pandemic lockdowns, racial justice protests and expanded ballot access. You know, he won this race with less than a percent of the vote. It didnt happen overnight.. Jean-Pierre later clarified her response, saying "what's important now is that he's working from the residence on behalf of the American people. FILKINS: He's really, really smart. I just know he is coming for a private function, Utah Republican Party Chairman Carson Jorgensen said in a text message Thursday. The other reason DeSantis is keeping the event under the radar, the person added, is to avoid looking like he is preparing to take on Trump in the 2024 Republican primary and provoking the former presidents ire, CNBC reported. Surges of interest in candidates, no matter how intense, can be short-lived, and political veterans caution that theres no guarantee the early signs of support for DeSantis would last by the time the primary begins. The cross-country Democratic rival aired an ad criticizing DeSantis over the Fourth of July weekend. The beaches are open. He defied - you know, he always referred to the Fauci, the Faucist (ph), you know, tyranny. The argument that DeSantis is focusing on topics more in alignment with his individual political ambitions than the good of the state he serves has traction with opponents. ", Read the original article on Business Insider. In Colorado, Republican activists at last weekends Western Conservative Summit voted 71%-67% for DeSantis over Trump in a straw poll for their preferred candidate for 2024, his second successive win (participants could offer multiple responses). That appears to be born out in polls of GOP voters about a hypothetical 2024 primary, where the governor has emerged as a clear second choice behind Trump. And I - you know, President Trump may be smart as well, but DeSantis is very, very articulate. I think I would win.". He went to Harvard. If and when Trump decides to get into the race, the interaction between those two candidates, and that relationship, will tell a great deal about how the entire election is going to play out., Republican primaries offer look into future of Trumpism without Trump, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning.
Walker, the former Wisconsin governor, said he would encourage DeSantis and others to get into a presidential primary, even running against Trump. And its made many of them sit up and take notice, even as he campaigns to win a second term as governor. His agenda in Lee County was to talk about water quality and conservation. And it was - he was an outlier during the pandemic. "The rules of the Electoral College prohibit a Presidential Candidate and a Vice Presidential candidate being from the same statein this case Floridalest they forfeit that state's electoral vote. But in a recent interview on Fox News, he didnt dispel the idea even if it means having to first beatformer President Donald Trump in the Republican primary. He was also criticized by Vice President Kamala Harris, who in Orlando on Thursday took issue with the governors support for restricting abortion rights. The 2024 Republican primary could also feature a field filled with longtime Republican stalwarts: In addition to former President Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, former South Carolina Gov. Now She's Sharing Her Journey As An Intersex Person To Be A Resource For Others. He cares more about running for the White House than your house, said Charlie Crist, a Democratic gubernatorial nominee, in an ad released Thursday. So, so go ahead, then quickly addressed the next question. This week Trump sent out emails highlighting a Morning Consult poll that showed him still in command of the Republican party nationally with 53% support, although he dropped 3% and DeSantis rose by the same mark since the previous poll in March. Do you see a typo or an error? I'm quite certain President Trump knows that," Stone wrote. What does that mean?
Ron DeSantis speaks during the American Legislative Exchange Council conference in Salt Lake City on July 28, 2021.
It would be irresponsible not to plan for some type of Biden-induced economic slowdown., Theyll try to scare people away, because thats just what they do. Even so, DeSantis remains favorite to comfortably win his re-election race in November, and use that as a likely springboard to seeking the 2024 nomination, regardless of whether Trump, who will be 78 by the time of the next election, runs again or not. Ron DeSantis and his growing strength in the Republican Party. From 1789 to 1804, electoral college voters chose from two candidates, with whoever came in second becoming vice president. DeSantis also told the Fox News host Sean Hannity he would run for reelection in Florida. Stone, who was pardoned by Trump after he was convicted of lying to Congress, has also publicly criticized DeSantis for being disloyal to the former president for apparently wanting to also run for the GOP presidential nomination. Charlie Crist and Nikki Fried faced off Thursday in the first and likely only televised debate between two candidates asking Florida Democrats to choose them in next months Aug. 23 primary as the partys nominee to take on Gov. DeSantis will be in the state the week of July 18 for the gathering, according to people familiar with the situation, CNBC reported. Crucially, the security official's testimony appears to confirm part of what Cassidy Hutchinson previously testified. ", Former co-star Mike Wolfe revealed Fritz has been hospitalized in an Instagram post, "Kamala putting her sneakers on.
DeSantis, 43, appears to offer everything that the Maga base would want in a candidate, a high-profile yet irascible and media-hostile politician who embraces the ultra-conservative tenets of Trumpism, but without the baggage of Trumps two impeachments and seven-million vote thumping in the 2020 election after a single term in office. Shocking video shows the moment people were hit with crutches and punched as a violent brawl spiraled out of control in the Fashion District's Santee Alley over the weekend. Ron DeSantis is likely to be re-elected as governor of Florida this November but has been fundraising in other, possibly with a view to a presidential run in 2024. Donors have been told that the meetings with DeSantis in Utah are likely to start early in the day on July 19. He fights more about policy and less on his Twitter account.. Crist, a congressman from St. Petersburg and a former Republican governor of Florida, has been consistently leading over Fried, the states elected agriculture commissioner, in most public polls of the race. Write CSS OR LESS and hit save. Trump, as expected, is not appreciating the prospect of being usurped by his former protege, whom he described in 2017 as a brilliant young leader. He's very fast on his feet. Russian President Vladimir Putin could be facing a second war front as Chechen forces opposed to his war in Ukraine threaten to launch their own offensive. Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democratic state congressman who has criticised the governor over concerns ranging from banning mask mandates at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic to vetoing $500m (400m) from the Florida budget for a housing program for homeless LGBTQ+ youth, challenged DeSantis this week over his latest hobby horse, a threat to have child protective services investigate parents who take their children to drag shows.