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06-27-2022, 10:06 AM
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is carefully cultivating a national network of support amid speculation of a 2024 presidential bid, even as he continues to downplay any notion that he has political ambitions beyond his home state.
The rising Republican star has amassed more than $100 million for his reelection campaign, a sum more on par with that of top-tier presidential contenders than a candidate for governor. He’s met with donors in South Carolina, stumped for Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt in Nevada and attended fundraisers in several states.
Multiple Republican strategists and operatives described DeSantis’s strategy as both brash and calculated, noting that he appears intent on cultivating his reputation among conservatives nationally while being careful to avoid any move that could put him directly in former President Donald Trump’s crosshairs.
“It’s like everything else in Republican politics in this country. It all comes down to how you deal with Trump,” Keith Naughton, a veteran Republican strategist, said. “If he was out campaigning, then Trump has more of a license to attack him and to really knock him down directly.”
“As long as DeSantis is just running for reelection and doing this passive aggressive 2024 campaign — because he is running — Trump has a hard time going after him.”
Despite Trump’s preeminence among Republicans — he has repeatedly claimed that he would easily beat DeSantis in a 2024 primary matchup — there are signs that DeSantis could actually challenge that status.
A University of New Hampshire Granite State Poll released this week showed him pulling ahead of Trump among likely GOP primary voters in the first-in-the-nation primary state. He also topped Trump in the Western Conservative Summit’s 2024 straw poll earlier this month, marking the second year in a row that he finished in the top spot.
Andrew Smith, the director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, said that Trump’s slide in the Granite State Poll is “part of a typical pattern.” While he remains perhaps the best-known figure in the Republican Party, voters often begin to look at other potential contenders as the presidential primaries draw nearer.
With DeSantis regularly grabbing headlines, that pattern appears to be playing out in his favor.
“A party’s losing candidate in the prior election is typically the best-known person in their party,” he said. “As the primary gets closer, new candidates emerge and attract more media attention, and therefore more voter attention, than the losing candidate from the previous election.”
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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3536343-desantis-builds-national-profile-out-of-trumps-view/
a sign of things to come? i think there's a lot of conservatives out there that would take desantis over trump at this point. personally i think he'd be more effective than trump both from a economic right perspective as well as beating down the woke left.
The rising Republican star has amassed more than $100 million for his reelection campaign, a sum more on par with that of top-tier presidential contenders than a candidate for governor. He’s met with donors in South Carolina, stumped for Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt in Nevada and attended fundraisers in several states.
Multiple Republican strategists and operatives described DeSantis’s strategy as both brash and calculated, noting that he appears intent on cultivating his reputation among conservatives nationally while being careful to avoid any move that could put him directly in former President Donald Trump’s crosshairs.
“It’s like everything else in Republican politics in this country. It all comes down to how you deal with Trump,” Keith Naughton, a veteran Republican strategist, said. “If he was out campaigning, then Trump has more of a license to attack him and to really knock him down directly.”
“As long as DeSantis is just running for reelection and doing this passive aggressive 2024 campaign — because he is running — Trump has a hard time going after him.”
Despite Trump’s preeminence among Republicans — he has repeatedly claimed that he would easily beat DeSantis in a 2024 primary matchup — there are signs that DeSantis could actually challenge that status.
A University of New Hampshire Granite State Poll released this week showed him pulling ahead of Trump among likely GOP primary voters in the first-in-the-nation primary state. He also topped Trump in the Western Conservative Summit’s 2024 straw poll earlier this month, marking the second year in a row that he finished in the top spot.
Andrew Smith, the director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, said that Trump’s slide in the Granite State Poll is “part of a typical pattern.” While he remains perhaps the best-known figure in the Republican Party, voters often begin to look at other potential contenders as the presidential primaries draw nearer.
With DeSantis regularly grabbing headlines, that pattern appears to be playing out in his favor.
“A party’s losing candidate in the prior election is typically the best-known person in their party,” he said. “As the primary gets closer, new candidates emerge and attract more media attention, and therefore more voter attention, than the losing candidate from the previous election.”
https://www.benzinga.com/files/u172083/screen_shot_2022-06-23_at_11.37.19.png
https://i.ibb.co/CBphGJs/Clipboard01.jpg
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3536343-desantis-builds-national-profile-out-of-trumps-view/
a sign of things to come? i think there's a lot of conservatives out there that would take desantis over trump at this point. personally i think he'd be more effective than trump both from a economic right perspective as well as beating down the woke left.