“He’s playing a couple of dimensions of chess right now.” Why Ron DeSantis and his team are playing it cool until next spring, when he plans to announce whether he will run for president.
But Trump isn’t dominating the airwaves — and depriving his opponents of oxygen — nearly the way he did when he stormed the Republican Party in 2016.
The same week as Trump’s campaign launch, former Vice President Mike Pence, a typically reserved politician, scored dozens of interviews and saw his memoir, released the same day as Trump’s campaign launch, land at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list. Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks to guests at the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting on Nov. 18 in Las Vegas. “No one is going to push all their chips in on one candidate this far out,” said Dan Eberhart, a longtime GOP donor and CEO of the oil field services company Canary. “The early polls don’t mean anything, and there’s a long bumpy road to go before we know who is a contender and who’s a chump.
That lackluster start to the 2024 race is giving DeSantis the breathing room to work through the start of his second term in office and keep courting donors behind the scenes.in the coming weeks to work on Florida’s homeowner’s insurance rules in the wake of Hurricane Ian. Around the same time, he’s expected to host a retreat for possible campaign donors, according to three Republicans in touch with his tight-knit political operation.
“Why not go be the best two-term governor of the third-largest state in modern history and then walk into the presidency in 2028?” longtime Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said at the Christian Science Monitor’s Monitor Breakfast shortly before the midterm elections.Advertisement
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