This question is asked frequently, right now. What about a Trump-DeSantis “dream team” ticket in 2024? It is possible? Given Ron DeSantis’ popularity, would Donald Trump consider making the offer?
Even more important, would DeSantis agree to it?
Various reports suggest that the popular Florida governor doesn’t want Trump’s 2022 re-endorsement in the gubernatorial election, nor does he want Trump to campaign for him. DeSantis, however, seems to desire 2024 while Trump dances around it. zeroIt is important to answer it.
Also, during an interview with Newsmax TV on Thursday, Trump said he’s not ruling out DeSantis as a possible running mate. This is true if Donald truly believes it. [winking emoji] runs. Trump told Newsmax he has a good relationship with DeSantis — right before going full-metal Trumpian, and attempting to take credit for DeSantis’s success and popularity in the Sunshine State, as transcribed by The Epoch Times:
He gets along well with me. His success was largely my fault, as I endorsed him. He rose up like a rocket.
Trump was referring specifically to DeSantis’ 2018 endorsement in his gubernatorial campaign against Andrew Gillum. As Nick Arama, my colleague, reported, Gillum was indicted in federal court on 21 counts for conspiracy, wire fraud and false statements to FBI agents.
Anyway, here’s Trump on DeSantis again, via Newsmax:
He was elected because of me, and I am very proud of it. However, we have a great relationship.
DeSantis, regardless of his political affiliation, remains the popular choice to succeed Trump in 2024. If Trump Isto be dethroned.
TRUMP ON DESANTIS : I was responsible for his election, as you all know. However, we have a great relationship. pic.twitter.com/IiOyufNp9R
— Newsmax (@newsmax) June 21, 2022
In June’s interview, Trump opened up to The New Yorker about the possibility that DeSantis would challenge him for his nomination. Trump told the magazine he wasn’t really worried about DeSantis in 2024, one way or the other. Why? The New Yorker has the following:
I don’t know if Ron is running, and I don’t ask him. It’s his prerogative. It’s my belief that I would win.
DeSantis’s “prerogative” aside, as I noted in the article, behind-the-scenes machinations would suggest that both camps are already plotting — or at the minimum, considering — strategies against the other.
Translation: Popcorn. We’re going to need a lot of popcorn.
Longtime Republican campaign strategist Brooke Rollins told The Epoch Times on June 14, several weeks before a Ready for Ron PAC was created in support of a DeSantis run, that “The information I’ve gotten the last several weeks is Trump is definitely running,” which should come as zero surprise to zero people.
“We’re not working at all against Trump,” Rollins said, adding:
At that point in time, I didn’t know if he [Trump]Whether he was running. What I’ve said since has made it clear is that he [DeSantis] won’t run against Trump.
One wonders if Rollins — as well as Team Trump — is still so sure about that.
RedState published in June that a New Hampshire poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire, showed DeSantis ahead of Trump in the race for the nomination. In a matchup in general elections, Joe Biden was also defeated. The same poll showed Trump losing seven points to Biden.
Let’s get to the bottom of it:
Regardless of how 2024 plays out, as I suggested, above, we’re going to need a hell of a lot of popcorn. Trump would not go down easily — let alone “accept” other (“disloyal”) Republicans entering the race, and would likely resort to the same types of ad hominem attacks he hurled at “Little Marco,” “Lying Ted,” “Low-Energy Jeb,” and nearly every other candidate in the Republican primary race.
DeSantis? does decide to challenge Trump, he will be formidable as hell, and he will give it all he has to give — just as we have seen him do time and time again against Florida Democrats, the Biden Administration, public education, and of course, his steely-eyed shellacking of Disney. The Florida governor is a bit like Trump and refuses to be beaten down by anyone. I’ll tell you this:
2024 will make 2016 and 2020 seem like Sunday school picnics.
I hope, without all the Jan. 6, silliness.
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