The Florida governor appears to be preparing for a 2024 presidential campaign, despite there being no official confirmation yet.
hopeful Adam Laxalt and Roy Bailey, a Texas GOP donor who helped lead Trump's campaign finance committee.Ron JohnsonFlorida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at the Pensacola International Airport on November 3, 2018 in Pensacola, Florida.
The tour was billed as DeSantis supporting law and order with police officials, as well as showing how he has been tough on crime in Florida during his time as governor. Michael Binder, professor of political science at the University of North Florida, said that while an official announcement hasn't been made yet, DeSantis has been laying the groundwork for his 2024 campaign for"months and months," with his recent"thumb in the eye" event in Palm Beach being a prime example of this.
"All potential candidates for national office need well-heeled donors to fund the exorbitantly expensive process of running for president," Binder told"Those donors do tend to have general partisan leanings, and no, those folks don't grow on trees. So it makes sense that the crop of '24 candidates, such as DeSantis, will be dipping into a pool that has previously supported Trump.
"South Florida is chock full of wealthy donors, Mar-a-Lago isn't a lone oasis of wealthy residents," Binder added."All that said, the optics of this can be interpreted as a thumb to the eye of Trump. And while this is still a cold war version of a campaign, at some point these two will have to have direct interaction."
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