Ron DeSantis

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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, …”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.…”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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 …”

“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…”