Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is signaling he may not be done with presidential politics and is making clear he believes the 2024 race would have looked very different without Donald Trump.
In a recent interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, DeSantis declined to rule out a 2028 White House bid.
“We’ll see,” the 47-year-old governor said when asked directly whether he would run again.
DeSantis, who is term-limited and will leave office in January 2027, will exit the governor’s mansion roughly a year before the next Republican primary season begins.
His 2024 campaign ended early after a second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, where Trump beat him by around 30 points.
Yet DeSantis argued the outcome was largely dictated by Trump’s presence in the race.
“In 2024, like in Iowa, the people that voted for Trump. If he wasn’t running, I would’ve gotten like 90 percent of those people,” DeSantis said during an appearance on the the Hang Out with Sean Hannity podcast.
“They were conservative voters, right? They didn’t want the non-conservative, they wanted me,” he added.
“The timing didn’t work out, obviously, for that.”
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After winning the 2018 gubernatorial race by under half a percentage point, DeSantis’s first term in office was so successful that he won re-election in 2022 by around 20 points.
However, polling for the 2028 Republican primary suggests a different landscape is already taking shape.
The race currently appears to be a two-horse battle between Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
According to the latest RealClearPolitics polling average, Vance remains way out in front with around 46 percent support.
Another candidate in the mix is President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., although it remains unclear whether he will even put his name forward.
DeSantis, meanwhile, is polling in the single digits.
Despite those numbers, DeSantis appears to be keeping the door open and making the case that under different circumstances, he may already have been the man in the Oval Office.
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