Lara Trump makes another pitch for Florida Senate seat. Is Ron DeSantis listening?

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She was on Fox and Friends Saturday.

While it’s unclear if Gov. Ron DeSantis is watching morning cable news after his return from Italy, one person who wants to be his Senate appointee isn’t taking any chances.

Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump returned to “Fox and Friends” Saturday to reiterate her interest in replacing Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio.

“Well, you know, there have been crazier things that Trumps have done in the past, that’s for sure. Uh, look, I was so honored to be co-Chair of the RNC during this time,” Trump said.

“If I am tapped to serve in another capacity, it truly would be my honor. I think it would be great to have another young mom alongside Katie Britt there in the United States Senate. I have not been asked yet, but I certainly would strongly consider it if it is presented to me,” she added.

The comments come after another appearance on Fox this week, during which Trump said she would “love” to be appointed Senator.

Despite multiple requests for comment, the Governor’s Office has yet to say where they fall on the Trump appointment question. If we hear anything, we will update the piece accordingly.

DeSantis was in Italy for a trade mission through Friday, but with that wrapped up, he expects to advance a name to replace Rubio sooner than later. But Trump World sees the answer as obvious.

Additionally, Sen. Rick Scott is a fan of Trump’s selection. But the former Governor and the current one have not had the strongest relationships over the last six years.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


45 comments

  • Red Storm

    November 16, 2024 at 9:25 am

    There’s a good chance that DeSantis might run for that seat in 2028. I’m sure whoever he appoints will be told that.

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      • Ocean Joe

        November 16, 2024 at 12:05 pm

        Now THAT’S a job Lara’s qualified to handle.
        Thanks Forsaken
        Her family loves scams, too.

    • Hey, I'm His Daughter in Law, Pick Me!

      November 16, 2024 at 9:38 am

      Appointing somebody this unqualified, based solely on nepotism is pathetic and shows the contempt these guys have for the state of Florida.

      • MH/Duuuval

        November 16, 2024 at 9:41 am

        MAGA DEI at work — stand back commoners.

        • Red Storm

          November 16, 2024 at 10:07 am

          To the victors go the spoils.

          • Ocean Joe

            November 16, 2024 at 11:58 am

            You meant to say: to the spoiled goes the senate seat. She’s not getting that job any more than Ricky’s going to be majority leader.
            Florida is not a toy, we deserve responsible leadership despite the fact we haven’t had it in decades.

          • Florida is Red

            November 16, 2024 at 12:13 pm

            You should move to Mass Ocean. I think Warren aka Pocahontas is more your style.

          • MH/Duuuval

            November 16, 2024 at 12:52 pm

            Alternate MAGA version: To the rapists go the pillaging.

          • PAY UP

            November 16, 2024 at 3:33 pm

            MAGA TRASH ED, i heard musk and trump are going to build a magaland in southern florida. of course it will be for whites only. maga trash better buy their tickets now before real trump type inflation sets in. enjoy your bumpy ride. young teens will have a place to work if they can handle the sexist pervs. christians can sell fancy chinese made bibles at the gate. sidearms will be mandatory

      • StevenGreen

        November 24, 2024 at 9:13 am

        Where do you come off saying she is unqualified. She stepped into the Republican Committee Chairperson job that had been a disaster for years and did an outstanding job! The goal was to manage all Republican efforts to get Trump elected and that was a home run success! She would not only bring her technical skills but the biggest missing piece in so many Senator positions ….common sense! American Common Sense!

  • PeterH

    November 16, 2024 at 9:51 am

    Her education credentials indicate that she’s certainly qualified to bake cakes for the MAGA’s in the Senate.

    • She must be a he

      November 17, 2024 at 9:22 am

      She looks like a man

  • Red Storm

    November 16, 2024 at 10:05 am

    You Demos are so angry that the Pelosi coup got routed last week. You just lash out at every chance. Take some anger management classes and don’t watch “The View”.

    • PeterH

      November 16, 2024 at 10:51 am

      Like most of Trump’s appointments she has not been vetted and she is unqualified. If the Senate wanted MAGA freaks it would have given Rick Scott more than 15 votes.

      • Florida is Red

        November 16, 2024 at 12:02 pm

        You can certainly have your opinions on this but it will have no influence at all on who DeSantis picks. That’s how Kammy got her political start. She was appointed by Willie Brown. She took care of Willie’s willie and he took care of her. Now she parlayed that appointment into a US Senate job. While she was a Senator she was named the most liberal individual in that body. Now she tried to change her stripes when she placed. Into power by coup leader Pelosi but the majority of voters saw this and she was easily defeated.

        • MH/Duuuval

          November 16, 2024 at 6:09 pm

          “She took care of Willie’s willie” per Peachy — just one of many similar comments.

          “In the closing weeks of the campaign, Trump went out of his way to dismiss his consultants’ blandishments to moderate his tone. Instead, he pretended to fellate a microphone … .”

          Looks like MAGAs are hung up on fellatio.

          • Red Storm

            November 16, 2024 at 10:18 pm

            Why is Willie always smiling? Bottom line Willie got what he wanted and Kammy got the appointment she wanted. Then the voters got to see the empty vessel for themselves despite the Hollywood elite rallies and such.

          • MH/Duuuval

            November 17, 2024 at 8:30 pm

            MAGA family values aka asylum seeker family separation. Today it is estimated that more than a thousand families have still not been reunited. (2018 to the present)

        • PAY UP

          November 16, 2024 at 8:12 pm

          MAGA TRASH ED, your post has more holes in it than a florida road. the lies you tell about harris reveals your low character. your imagination is childish in nature. get real dude. grow up and act like a mature person, nah, not a chance. pay up, yew oweme

          • Hung Wiil

            November 17, 2024 at 4:58 pm

            Rick,
            How can you show your stupid face after being a total nimrod for your entire existence? You are wrong on everything, always. You may want to check your prescription. This whole year, you have been saying stupid ass shit every time you post. Just retire already.

    • Ed Wants His Free Gas Now!

      November 16, 2024 at 12:00 pm

      You might even be angry by the time Trump gets finished perverting American government into his own personal plaything.

      • Florida is Red

        November 16, 2024 at 12:04 pm

        Not angry at all Ocean and I’m curious who is feeding you private information?

        • Only Frat Boys in the Trump Administration

          November 16, 2024 at 12:11 pm

          Ed, your writing style is all anybody needs. You havent been using that tired emoji lately. And BTW, you were much funnier when you were Ed. You obviously were able to pick out my comment, as you responded to it. I posted another one at 9:38 and again at 11:58. Can you find them? Do you not see a pattern like everybody else does?

          • Florida is Red

            November 16, 2024 at 12:16 pm

            You know more than just my name and I’m sorry you no longer like my humor. 😜

          • Florida is Red

            November 16, 2024 at 12:24 pm

            I know it is you because u r the only that knows my name and other info. Either you are stalking me or someone is tipping you off.

          • Ocean Joe

            November 17, 2024 at 5:44 pm

            Ed, anything I know is from your comments, and as for stalking, you’re about the only rightwinger on here whose comments are worth responding to.
            Somehow “the angry libturd guy” just doesn’t measure up,

            And yes, I’m a big fan of Pocohantas. And we both know Lara Trump is not fit to be a US senator anymore than Matt Gaetz should be attorney general.

        • PAY UP

          November 16, 2024 at 1:25 pm

          MAGA TRASH ED, i still have a hard time believing how deluded you are. all of your posts are crazy talk. the high info folks in this country are tired of low info trouble makers like you. you’ll pass, we’ll survive, so i guess i’ll just sit back and watch your team screw everything up. you may not make it through it, but i am well prepared to wait 4 years for things to improve. you, you have no clue obviously.

        • PAY UP

          November 16, 2024 at 8:20 pm

          MAGA TRASH ED, i still have a hard time believing how deluded you are. all of your posts are crazy talk. the high info folks in this country are tired of low info trouble makers like you. you’ll pass, we’ll survive, so i guess i’ll just sit back and watch your team screw everything up. you may not make it through it, but i am well prepared to wait 4 years for things to improve. you, you have no clue obviously.

  • Skeptic

    November 16, 2024 at 11:30 am

    Now that MAGA world is down with nepotism, the path is clear to pick Casey. He can have some confidence that she will step aside for him when the seat next comes up for election. Not sure the advantage to Ronnie in bending the knee for Donnie.

  • Along for the Ride

    November 16, 2024 at 4:20 pm

    Ron has stated that he didn’t like Washington and wouldn’t want to be a Senator. He likes to be governor because it’s a mini president role for a state.

  • SallyB

    November 16, 2024 at 5:35 pm

    Governor Ron DeSantis — America’s Governor — will never appoint a nepotic carpetbagger from North Carolina to represent Floridians and the free state of Florida in the United States Senate.

    • PAY UP

      November 16, 2024 at 9:15 pm

      SALLY B , sounds like you don’t know how bad your party is. don’t underestimate the level of their depravity, i don’t. free state of florida, you’re joking right?

  • PAY UP

    November 16, 2024 at 8:22 pm

    MODERATOR , i’m responding to florida is red. MAGA TRASH ED, i still have a hard time believing how deluded you are. all of your posts are crazy talk. the high info folks in this country are tired of low info trouble makers like you. you’ll pass, we’ll survive, so i guess i’ll just sit back and watch your team screw everything up. you may not make it through it, but i am well prepared to wait 4 years for things to improve. you, you have no clue obviously.

  • PAY UP

    November 16, 2024 at 8:24 pm

    GANCARSKI, YOUR GUY WON, WHAT’S WITH THE EXCESSIVE MODERATION?

  • PAY UP

    November 16, 2024 at 9:18 pm

    ok gancarski, i won’t comment on any of your articles, you snowflake

    • Red Storm

      November 16, 2024 at 10:15 pm

      No one cares what you think, especially Gancarski.

    • Red Storm

      November 17, 2024 at 7:51 pm

      Gancarski is as much of a Republican as Peter H is an independent.

    • SallyB

      November 18, 2024 at 1:04 am

      Promises, promises … from your lips to God’s ears …

  • Harold Finch

    November 17, 2024 at 8:47 am

    Why in thw world would DeSantis appoint her? Let’s be real, she would be an absolute joke!

  • sleeping for 4 years

    November 17, 2024 at 8:48 am

    I for one don’t understand why Rona would pick someone who identifies as female for a senate seat. After all, in the last election we made it clear that only white male rapist sociopaths are our leaders- colored chicks are not allowed. Plus, she’s too big to fill Little Marco’s spot. Matt Gaytiz would make a great choice after he is rejected for AG. Drill baby drill especially those high school girls!

  • A. Cardenas

    November 17, 2024 at 9:07 am

    We hope DeSantis will pick Lara as senator, but we also need to have Trump appoint Marjorie Taylor Green as FBI Director. And then shut it down as the new AG, Matt Gaetz has suggested.

    • MH/Duuuval

      November 17, 2024 at 5:01 pm

      No relation to Al Cardenas, a Republican with ethics — not many of them around these days.

  • EARL PITTS AMERICAN

    November 18, 2024 at 2:21 am

    My oh my America,
    A quick review of the above commentary will clue you into just how bunched up the “DOOK 4 BRAINS LEFTY’S” under-panties have gotten up into their “POLITICAL SPHINCTERS” over this Lara Trump situation.
    As it happens many of these overly tightened-up “Political Sphincters” belong to some of my “BESTY LEFTYS” who I, EARL PITTS AMERICAN, care about.
    THEREFORE:
    I, EARL PITTS AMERICAN, am going to assist my Besty Leftys with understanding America’s complex political landscape in order to facilitate their “SWEET SWEET POLITICAL SPHINCTER RELAXATION”. You are welcome, Besty Leftys, as you know “EARL CARES ABOUT YOU”.
    EARL PREACHES ON:
    My dear Bestys this is nothing but a little taste of “Sage Conservative Political Pushback” for what your side did to bring our Great Nation to its knees. Lady Liberty Demands Pay-Back and a degree of Retribution from The Dook 4 Brains Left and this Lara Trump Appointment Stir-Up is just one of the many and painfull (for you) ways in which you Dooks will be paying Lady Liberty back.
    There There now my Beloved Besty Leftys “KNOWING STUFF” is 1/2 of your battle to recovery from Trump Deraingement Syndrom [AKA TDS]. All of Earls Besty Lefty’s are now calming down, breathing returning to normal, political sphincters returning to the happy relaxed status…go to sleep and rest now my Besty Leftys…if anything whizzez you off tomorrow, Daddy Earl will be here to talk you down off the TDS cliff once again…sleep…sleep…sweet sleep….
    Daddy Earl

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