Ron DeSantis

“For me, I'm viewing candidates as either being acceptable or unacceptable, and Vivek is acceptable to me. I think DeSantis is too. The ones who are unacceptable to me are the ones who would escalate this Ukraine war, because I think that avoiding World War III…”

“The top three candidates all have expressed significant either misgivings or opposition to our involvement in Ukraine. Trump, Vivek, and DeSantis, with varying degrees of strength, have basically all opposed Biden's policy, and they are the leading candidates …”

“He did the best job of all the governors during COVID. I think he did a better job than Trump did during COVID.”

“I think it'll be DeSantis, Vivek, and it'll be either Tim Scott or Nikki Haley.”

“I believe that you're going to see Chris Christie and Vivek surge. It's going to be a three horse race with DeSantis. And I think Trump's going to be out of the race in the next six to 12 months.”

“The truth of the matter is this group has hosted dinners for Ro Khanna, for Senator Manchin, We've hosted dinners for DeSantis, right?”

“I think that of all the major candidates who actually have a realistic shot, DeSantis is the most supremely competent as an executive. He's run the state of Florida.”

“That 20, 24 would be a Newsom DeSantis race. I still think there's like a 10, 20% chance of that.”

“Because I think he's got the potential to win over moderates. And I don't think this one over moderates didn't win over anybody who was in, you know, the left or, you know, moderate left.”

“Look, the DeSantis people reached out to Elon on Twitter. They also reached out to me about it, and we discussed it, and they were excited to break new ground and do something different”

“They haven't banned any books in Florida, but the question is what books are taught in the curriculum and what's in the school library.”

“I don't think so. I think, I bet DeSantis wins. I think it will be tough for him to circumnavigate all the legal troubles, and I wonder if the RNC doesn't get involved.”

“Well, I think this is why I think DeSantis is doing well with the Republican base. And, you know, if you see polling of the Republican primary is he understands that it's not good enough just to have this sort of Reagan s totally hands off government approach.…”

“Let me make a prediction right now. This will all redound his advantage.”

“The main alternative to Trump in the Republican Party is DeSantis, and then I'd say the number three in the Republican Party after Trump and DeSantis is Glenn Youngkin right now.”

“I think that you'll see Trump and DeSantis attack Yunkin more viciously in a presidential primary than they attack Haley on that dimension of you have no experience and it'll be hard for him to back it up.”

“And so if you put those two things together, the risk is that DeSantis decays. Things emerge, people attack him because he's the clear front runner, and the opportunity, just like it was for Trump in 16, or for Clinton, or for George Bush, Not Herbert Walker, …”

“I think DeSantis peaked a little too early and the forever Trumpers and the chaos is gonna be a little too much for him to handle.”

“I think that if he continues to pull this well within the Republican Party, I think Trump might not run again, because Trump definitely does not want to risk being a loser in the Republican primary.”

“DeSantis won Miami-Dade County, which went for Hillary by 30 points.”

“I still think it's going to be, ah, DeSantis versus, ah, Newsome.”

“So, look, I'm on the DeSantis train. That's what I'm supporting for 24.”

“I think it's going to be DeSantis versus Newsom in 24.”

“DeSantis runs, he's gonna run, he's gonna win a landslide.”

“Had he not been governor of Florida, and even if we had a Republican legislature as a backstop, you know, we would have been much more like New York or California during the pandemic than Florida.”

“My biggest political winner for twenty-twenty-two, I predict my man Ron DeSantis will be the big winner. He's up for re-election in Florida. He won in 2018 with less than one percent of the vote. It was a real nail biter. This time I think he's going to cruise…”

“The bills passed, and in June, Governor Ron DeSantis signed them into law. One would preempt any bans on gasoline refueling stations, and another would prevent all local governments across Florida from restricting any source of energy from utilities.”

“It's very, very early to say. I mean, the first thing he has to do is run for governor for reelection. In which I think is next year is 20, 22. So I will support him for that.”

“It looks like he, now, he's running for re-election in Florida in twenty-twenty-two, so that's on his plate, and, but I think it looks like he's going to Sweep to victory.”

“If he wins reelection in 2022 by a strong margin, I think he does become the putative frontrunner For 20, 24.”