“Wouldn’t you like to know,” said Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week when asked if he would follow former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley and run for president in 2024.
Haley, a Republican, announced this week that she plans to run for president. Former President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican, has also announced that he is running.
On the Democratic side, incumbent President Joe Biden has said he intends to run. However, the 80-year-old has not yet made an official announcement, according to a report this week from ABC News.
Although DeSantis is a “main focus” for GOP voters, according to a recent Monmouth University poll, he hasn’t announced a presidential run either. Florida’s Voice captured the moment where a reporter asked him about it.
Last week, The Hill reported that DeSantis was “on the cusp of making a final decision on a 2024 presidential run,” citing “several Republicans familiar with the deliberations.”
DeSantis is a Florida native and graduate of Yale and Harvard. He has worked with the U.S. Navy and as a federal prosecutor. He was first elected as the governor of Florida in 2019 and he was just re-elected in November. His current term ends in 2027.
According to Reuters/Ipsos poll results released Tuesday, 52% of registered Democrats said Biden should not seek a second term and 40% of Republicans who said Trump should not run again. This national poll included 4,408 responses from adults collected from Feb. 6-13.
Even though significant percentages of their own parties don’t want Biden and Trump to run in 2024, they were still the respective front runners. Biden was the top pick for 35% of Democrats and Trump was the top pick for 43% of Republicans.
DeSantis came in second with 31% of registered Republicans backing him, while Haley had “single digit support,” according to Reuters. Per the Monmouth University poll from last week, Trump and DeSantis were tied at 33%.
“Trump and DeSantis are grabbing most of the media attention, so it is not surprising that most Republican voters do not come up with any names other than these two,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
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