Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) commented on whether he would launch another presidential campaign after his failed 2024 run.
Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity on his “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” podcast, DeSantis said, “We’ll see.”
“They were conservative voters, right? They didn’t want the non-conservative, they wanted me,” he said, noting that a high percentage of voters would have voted for him had President Trump not run. “But the timing didn’t work out, obviously, for that.”
“So you just got to see what happens,” DeSantis noted.
DeSantis dropped out of his presidential campaign in January 2024, instead endorsing President Trump. “I am today suspending my campaign,” DeSantis said in a video. “Trump is superior to the current incumbent, Joe Biden. That is clear. I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee, and I will honor that pledge. He has my endorsement because we can’t go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear.”
“I can’t ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources if we don’t have a clear path to victory,” DeSantis said. “It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance.”
In October, President Trump ended rumors that he could run as a vice presidential candidate in 2028, instead telling reporters that the Republican Party has “great” candidates.
He told reporters aboard Air Force One that the GOP has “great people.”“I don’t have to get into that, but we have one of them standing right here,” Trump said, referring to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “We have JD, obviously. The Vice President is great. Marco is great, I think. I’m not sure if anybody would run against those.”
