Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to announce 2024 presidential bid in conversation with Elon Musk: ABC News sources
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a fundraising picnic for U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Sioux Center, Iowa.
But as speculation grew that he was in fact gearing up to run, and as former President Donald Trump and Trump's political operation unleashed an onslaught of attacks, the governor and his team moved up his timeline -- even scrapping tentative plans to launch an exploratory committee and moving up a formal announcement date to May rather than June, sources have said.
Among the six best-known candidates, Trump clinched 51% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents while DeSantis garnered 25%. Still, a majority of those voters said they'd be satisfied with either Trump or DeSantis as their presidential nominee."You have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing," he said, according to two people who were on the call.Biden, Trump and me.
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