{"id":1930242,"date":"2023-05-13T06:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T10:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-floridians-fear-being-left-behind-as-desantis-reportedly-prepares-for-2024\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T06:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T10:58:14","slug":"analysis-floridians-fear-being-left-behind-as-desantis-reportedly-prepares-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-floridians-fear-being-left-behind-as-desantis-reportedly-prepares-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Floridians worry about being left behind as DeSantis plans for 2024."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanalysis-floridians-fear-being-left-behind-as-desantis-reportedly-prepares-for-2024%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1930242&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Preparing for a Presidential Run?<\/h2>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has cut ties with a political action committee (PAC) bearing his name, leading many Floridians to speculate that he is preparing to abandon Florida for a presidential run. On May 9, DeSantis severed ties with \u201cFriends of Ron DeSantis,\u201d a major state-level PAC \u201ccommitted to advancing\u201d the governor\u2019s \u201cFreedom Agenda and keeping Florida free.\u201d According to the website, the new \u201cassociated person,\u201d is Florida State Senator Blaise Ingoglia.<\/p>\n<h3>Preparing for the Presidency<\/h3>\n<p>This move is seen as a key step by DeSantis in preparing to run for the presidency, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-gop-to-test-support-for-ballot-drop-boxes-buckhead-cityhood-in-may-primary\/\" title=\"Georgia GOP to Test Support for Ballot Drop Boxes, Buckhead Cityhood in May Primary\">state law prohibits<\/a> the use of money raised by a state-level PAC for a race at the federal level. Tim Sharp, a \u201ccanceled\u201d Florida House candidate and host of \u201cThe Sharp Response\u201d on Rumble\u2019s Red Voice Media, said, \u201cHe\u2019s running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just wanted to make sure the revision on Resign-to-Run came through,\u201d Sharp told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Statute 99.012\u2014 the \u201cResign-to-Run\u201d law\u2014says that \u201cany officer who qualifies for federal public office must resign from the office.\u201d However, on April 26, Florida\u2019s legislature passed Senate Bill 7050. Buried deep within the 96-page measure is an exception that would allow state officeholders like DeSantis to run for president or vice president without resigning.<\/p>\n<h3>Political Theater<\/h3>\n<p>Sharp was critical of the idea that, just after Floridians reelected him as their governor, he would make a run for the White House. \u201cI think all of the promises he made during his reelection campaign had nothing to do with Floridians. It was just a way to position himself for the next step in his political career,\u201d Sharp posited. \u201cIt was all political theater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Should DeSantis decide to make his campaign official and make a run for the White House, it wouldn\u2019t be the first time he left one office to reach for another. DeSantis began his political career as a representative of Florida\u2019s 6th District, where he served from 2013 to 2018. During that time, DeSantis missed 4.2 percent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-gop-stops-democrats-attempt-to-tilt-every-election-permanently-in-their-favor\/\" title=\"BREAKING: GOP Stops Democrats\u2019 Attempt To \u2018Tilt Every Election \u2026 Permanently In Their Favor\u2019\">roll call votes<\/a>, nearly twice the median rate of 2.5 percent. On Sept. 10, 2018, DeSantis sent a letter to then-U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, resigning his seat in order to run for governor in Florida, as required by the Resign-to-Run law.<\/p>\n<h3>The Tours<\/h3>\n<p>The detachment from \u201cFriends of Ron DeSantis\u201d isn\u2019t the first move that has fueled the fires of speculation that he\u2019s preparing for a presidential bid in 2024. Just three months after winning his landslide reelection in Florida, DeSantis traveled to New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago to pledge his support for law enforcement. Days later, he hosted a three-day retreat for his top donors at the Four Seasons hotel in Palm Beach, just four miles away from Mar-A-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>From there, DeSantis launched his book tour, traveling through a string of key primary states, including New Hampshire, Iowa, Ohio, Virginia, Nevada, and Michigan. In April, DeSantis traveled to Israel and Japan. While DeSantis billed it as an \u201cinternational trade mission,\u201d some said it was a move to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-floridians-fear-being-left-behind-as-desantis-reportedly-prepares-for-2024\/\" title=\"Floridians worry about being left behind as DeSantis plans for 2024.\">establish foreign policy credibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Endorsements<\/h3>\n<p>While DeSantis has racked up an impressive list of endorsements in states like Utah and Michigan, legislators in his home state are considerably less enthusiastic. According to the endorsement tracker by Axios, DeSantis has the backing of three House members and none in the Senate. Trump has been endorsed by 45 House Republicans and nine Florida senators.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether DeSantis will officially announce his candidacy for the presidency, but many Floridians are already speculating about his intentions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s governor has just cut ties with a political action committee (PAC) bearing his name. Many Floridians see this as an indication that he\u2019s preparing to abandon Florida for a presidential run. On May 9, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis severed ties with \u201cFriends of Ron DeSantis,\u201d a major state-level PAC \u201ccommitted to advancing\u201d the governor\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":1930243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4506,4980,17931,3691,3641,19550],"class_list":["post-1930242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-4506","tag-desantis","tag-floridians","tag-left","tag-plans","tag-worry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}