Casey DeSantis Teases Run for Governor Against Trump-Endorsed Byron Donalds: ‘We’ll See, Right?’
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Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis teased a potential run for governor to succeed her husband, Ron DeSantis (R) at the National Review Institute’s Ideas Summit on Friday.
“There is growing speculation you will run for governor. So, have you given that any thought, and can you make these reporters in this room freak out?” asked Jim Geraghty during a moderated discussion with the Republican power couple.
“Well, first of all, I mean, this guy’s the GOAT. Like, honestly, everything that he says he’s gonna do, he does, right?” replied DeSantis, referring to her husband. “And, you know, I’m just sitting here listening to him, and he makes it sound really easy. ‘Like, I did this, and I did this, and we did this, and now our voter registration is 1.2 million Republicans, more than Democrats, and we did this, and we turned the vote,’ and all of this stuff. Florida’s the free state of Florida because you’ve got the GOAT in the governor’s office because of one key thing: Having a backbone.”
She continued:
And when you have the opportunity to stand up for what’s right, you’re courageous and you put yourself into the arena, and you fight like heck. And I’ll tell you what, I’ve been around politics, and I’ve seen a lot of people. Not a lot of people have a backbone like him. They get into office because they wanna be somebody. They don’t wanna do good things, they don’t wanna get criticized. They like the cocktail parties. You know, they think about what’s next on the next political rung in their career. Like the founders never thought that politics should ever have been a career, right? You were supposed to go up and serve, and you come home, and you live under the laws that you pass. But it’s really changed. And so I have to just applaud him, because all of what he has done is extremely fragile, right? Like, you could get somebody in, and all of this revert back. And I’ll tell you, Florida, like, in so many instances, it is the free state, and it is an inspiration to a lot of other states across the United States, but having the opportunity to travel around the world, people across the globe know about what he has done, and they are so proud. So it’s the long-winded answer of saying, you know, we’ll see, right? We’ll see.
President Donald Trump has already endorsed Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) as his preferred candidate in the race.
“Byron Donalds would be a truly Great and Powerful Governor for Florida and, should he decide to run, will have my Complete and Total Endorsement,” wrote Trump on Truth Social last month. “RUN, BYRON, RUN!”
After Trump expressed his support for Donalds, the incumbent governor swiped at the congressman.
“Byron hasn’t been a part of any of the victories that we’ve had here over the Left over these last years. He’s been in other states campaigning,” argued DeSantis before praising his wife.
“She would do better than me,” he said. “She has the dedication to conservative principles – anything we’ve accomplished, she’d be able to take to the next level”
