Ron DeSantis has yet to enter the 2024 presidential race, but former President Donald Trump is aiming to drum up support in the Florida governor’s backyard, securing endorsements already from more than one-third of the Republicans in the state’s congressional delegation.
’ slow start in building out a national coalition underscores his long-standing disdain for investing in relationships with other Republican leaders. Fellow GOP governors and party officials regularly grumble about his tendency to ignore their public gatherings, fundraisers and conference calls., who served nearly three terms in the House, referred to Congress as “grotesque.”typically does not attend meetings of the Republican Governors Association.
“All the Republican governors, for the most part, are pretty tight. We’re buddies,” Sununu said in a recent interview. “He didn’t get on the phone calls. He didn’t. He doesn’t come to our events. If he comes to a governors’ event, he shows up, makes a speech and leaves. That’s just him and his style. At first, we were all taken aback by it, but that’s just him.”
DeSantis’ unwillingness to engage with colleagues stands in stark contrast with successful candidates at the national level in the past. Former President George W. Bush’s lengthy Christmas card list is cemented in political lore. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regularly sent handwritten notes to mark birthdays or graduations to local activists in New Hampshire and Iowa.
, before and after his 2016 election, was almost always on the phone with party officials, donors or business leaders.in Congress for six years, said he hosted a private reception with him on Monday night, in part, “to dispel this notion that he is not personable.”
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