{"id":204100,"date":"2026-03-24T16:23:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204100\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:23:54","slug":"well-see-desantis-wont-rule-out-another-run-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204100\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We\u2019ll see’: DeSantis won’t rule out another run for president"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DeSantisFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis Credit: Ron DeSantis\/Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

More than two years after his presidential dreams\u00a0died<\/a>\u00a0in freezing cold Iowa, Ron DeSantis apparently hasn\u2019t closed the door on a future run for president.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see,\u201d DeSantis\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Fox News\u2019 Sean Hannity on the Fox News commentator\u2019s new podcast,\u00a0Hang Out with Sean Hannity<\/a>, which is scheduled to drop Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, I think that in \u201924, like in Iowa, the people that voted for Trump \u2014 if he wasn\u2019t running, I would have gotten like 90% of those people,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cThey were conservative voters, right? They didn\u2019t want the non-conservative. They wanted me. But the timing didn\u2019t work out, obviously, for that. So, you just got to see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although it will never be clear whether DeSantis would have won the GOP nomination for president if Trump hadn\u2019t been in the mix, the Florida governor led Trump in several polls in the fall of 2022, following his 19-point re-election victory for governor over Democrat Charlie Crist.<\/p>\n

In December 2022, DeSantis led Trump 52%-38% among likely GOP primary voter in a\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0poll. A\u00a0USA Today\/Suffolk\u00a0University poll<\/a>\u00a0had DeSantis up 56%-33% in a one-on-one contest.<\/p>\n

Capturing the mood at his re-election night in Tampa that fall, New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0at the time that \u201c[c]hants of \u2018Two more years\u2019 captured the sense of many at the governor\u2019s victory party that the statehouse is just a stop on the way to the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, once the campaign began in earnest in early 2023, and after Trump was indicted in New York City and later found\u00a0guilty of 34 felony counts<\/a>\u00a0in his hush-money trial, Republicans rushed back to support the former (and future) president, and DeSantis was never truly competitive after that.<\/p>\n

The governor received just 21.2% of the vote in the\u00a0Iowa caucus<\/a>\u00a0in January 2024, nearly 30 points behind Trump, winning nine delegates. Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley finished in third place with 19.1%. The New York Times later reported that DeSantis spent\u00a0$160 million in the race.<\/a><\/p>\n

Most of the talk of potential Republican candidates for president in 2028 has focused around either Vice President JD Vance or U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with DeSantis rarely if ever in those conversations. But, at 47, the governor certainly has time to consider what his future will be, as he is staring at being out of a job beginning in early January next year after his eight years in office expires.<\/p>\n

Florida Phoenix<\/a> is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Florida Phoenix maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Michael Moline for questions: info@floridaphoenix.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article appears in Mar. 19 \u2013 25, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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