Ron DeSantis plans presidential campaign stop in Tampa Thursday
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis waves to the crowd as he attends an event Friday, March 10, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo/Ron Johnson)

Ron DeSantis
The Governor is bringing his national campaign to his home state.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has traveled coast to coast in pursuit of the Republican presidential nomination, and now he’s bringing the campaign back to his home state.

On Thursday afternoon, DeSantis will hold an event in Tampa that is slated to start at 2 p.m. Further details are forthcoming.

It’s worth noting that unlike many of his events, such as the Never Back Down campaign swing to South Carolina this Wednesday, the campaign will be officially hosting, not the political committee.

DeSantis is backed by the vast majority of the Florida Legislature (many of whom conferred endorsements at the tail end of the 2023 Legislative Session). But at least up until this point, those endorsements haven’t moved the polls in his direction.

Despite having won one of the most commanding re-election victories in Florida history last year in his demolition of Democrat Charlie Crist, DeSantis has roughly half the support Donald Trump does in Primary polls of Florida Republicans.

According to the Race to the White House polling average for the state, Trump has 54% support on average, with DeSantis at 27%. Other candidates are footnotes, with Chris Christie and Vivek Ramaswamy each with 3% support, and Nikki HaleyAsa Hutchinson and Mike Pence each at 2% in the Sunshine State.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


5 comments

  • Michael K

    October 2, 2023 at 12:32 pm

    Florida?? He’s coming to Florida???

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    • Biscuit

      October 2, 2023 at 3:02 pm

      Who the f#ck invited him back?
      Arf.

  • Biscuit

    October 2, 2023 at 3:05 pm

    Race to the White House poll results: 27% of respondents are idiots, 54% morons.
    Stupid humans.
    Arf.

  • PeterH

    October 2, 2023 at 8:01 pm

    It will be the ultimate embarrassment for DeSantis to lose Florida!

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