Florida governor isn’t expected to announce candidacy for at least another couple of months but Iowa events seen as unofficial launch – follow the latest
It’s launch day on Friday, kind of, for Ron DeSantis’s 2024 presidential campaign.
The Republican Florida governor is in Iowa, an important state that will host early primary-season caucuses next year, for two public appearances and a round of meetings with lawmakers and other influential senior party figures.for the party’s nomination, even though he is not expected to declare it formally until after the Florida legislature closes its business in May.
He’ll be at a casino in Davenport, the state fairgrounds in Des Moines, and at the capitol building pressing the flesh in the company of Iowa governor and close allyHis political action committee has a bulging moneybag in excess of $80m by some reports, his self-serving political tome, The Courage to Be Free, is riding high at the New York Times bestselling list, and he’s been wooing a raft of influential senior Republican figures at home in Florida, and on a tour of states including Texas,...
But not everything in the DeSantis garden is rosy. Politico on Friday takes a look at the growing number of influential , an assortment of more moderate officials and donors, who are increasingly seeing the two-term governor as another incarnation of Trump himself.
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