Conservative superstar and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to make his official entry into the 2024 presidential race next week, following months of anticipation and speculation.
The Wall Street Journal reports DeSantis will file the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to declare his candidacy.
DeSantis is also scheduled to meet with top financial backers in Miami, Florida, late next week, which aligns with the filing of his candidacy.
DeSantis is prohibited by law from receiving or requesting campaign contributions until he formally announces his bid. By filing with the FEC, DeSantis would be able to start soliciting donations during the Miami gathering, potentially setting off a significant fundraising effort.
During the previous election cycle, DeSantis broke records for gubernatorial fundraising and began the spring season with $110 million in his fundraising committees. Much of these funds could potentially be transferred to Never Back Down, a super PAC supporting DeSantis’s anticipated presidential campaign.
While a formal campaign kick-off event is expected to take place after the donor gathering, no specific details have been disclosed by the campaign team.
In recent days, DeSantis has made several moves indicating an imminent campaign launch. One notable development was his political team relocating from the Republican Party of Florida headquarters to new offices. Additionally, the governor cut ties with Friends of Ron DeSantis, his longstanding political state committee, in order to comply with federal campaign finance regulations.
Although DeSantis has not officially announced his 2024 presidential campaign, he stated last week that he would make a decision “relatively soon.” While visiting Iowa, the state that hosts the first caucuses of the GOP presidential nominating process, DeSantis responded to inquiries about an impending announcement, stating that there was no news yet.
Nonetheless, DeSantis’s multiple visits to early voting presidential primary and caucus states since March, along with his expansion of the political team in Tallahassee, serve as clear indications of his movement towards launching a 2024.
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What an incredible idiotic Shoteh. Desantis has an amazing chance to cleanly win 2028. If he runs now, Trump will smear him 24/7 and do everything he can to crush him
Why Ron? Why put yourself thru the mud? You are young and ambitious. Wait it out
Well thats nice and considerate of him to wait after Shavuos so we can think of who to vote for over the holiday? Such ridiculous headlines.
The only real news in the piece was the “ there was no news yet “ .
Is he waiting for Trump to offer him the Vice Presidency?
That is already reserved for Nikki Haley.
Waste of time
Even if he wins the nomination, he will lose the election
Elections are won on the middle ground not far right not far left
To be elected, he needs to not only defeat Trump in the primaries (or convince Trump to drop out), but to win Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement. He needs to be wary of Trump dropping out and endorsing someone else. The strategy that might work is to largely agree with Trump on policy, but argue that he is the one who can make it work, while he has to avoid alienating the third of the Republican party that can’t stand Trump. His biggest challenge may be to to avoid win over the Reagan Republicans by supporting a strong anti-Russia and anti-China foreign policy, while convincing Trump that leading the free world is what makes America great – otherwise he could end up facing a serious third party threat if the Reagan (non-MAGA) Republicans and the non-WOKE (“moderate” in the John Kennedy or Franklin Roosevelt tradition) join forces.
Floridians would much rather have him as governor
wackyway
YES you are right. Thats what happens without Torah. HE IS BLINDED BY HIS LUST FOR kavod!
In the RealClearPolitics polling averages, Trump now leads DeSantis by 36.1 percent (56.0 to 19.9), his biggest margin over his rival since the 2022 midterms made RDS a Republican megastar (in the FiveThirtyEight averages, which use a somewhat different mix of polls and weight the results for partisan bias and reliability, Trump leads by 31.8 percent). The former president’s RCP lead has more than doubled since March 31.
Some of the most recent surveys ought to alarm Team DeSantis: A late April Emerson poll gave Trump a 62 percent to 16 percent lead, and a mid-May Rasmussen poll showed Trump leading DeSantis a nearly identical 62 percent to 17 percent. This really is a trend: There were no public polls between November 2022 and late March that showed DeSantis performing as poorly as his polling average measures him today. And it’s always a sign of trouble for rivals when a front-runner in a large primary field is regularly polling over 50 percent. The 2024 rules for Republican primaries allowing winner-take-all and winner-take-most delegate awards after the first few contests will enable anyone with anything close to that level of support to pile up big delegate majorities.
President: general election, 2024
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1,302 RV
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The Economist Biden 41% 41% DeSantis EVEN
May 13-16
1,500 A
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The Economist Biden 38% 38% DeSantis EVEN
May 13-16
1,302 RV
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The Economist Biden 42% 44% Trump Trump +2
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The Economist Biden 40% 41% Trump Trump +1
It’s so sad that we have another Covid denying anti-vaxxer running for President. Why does America have so many pseudoscience promoting politicians?!
“It’s so sad that we have another Covid denying anti-vaxxer running for President…”
His anti-vax position is the least of his rather dumb efforts to come down to the right of Trump on every possible issue. He has no principles other than to be “more conservative” than Trump.
danny boy,
Governor DeSantis ensured that a number of huge South Florida retirement communities with very large Jewish populations had first access to the Covid vaccine.
Why does YWN have so many lying, woke-promoting kapos?!
@GadolHadofi because most people commenting on this site don’t have a high school education.