A.G. Gancarski
Time is running short for Gov. Ron DeSantis to say who he will pick to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate.
But the Florida Governor isn’t tipping his hand to the media as to who the selection might be, even with less than a week before the Miami Republican’s first Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of State.
“It will come soon and it’s going to be somebody that’s going to help President Trump deliver on the mandate he earned from the American people. It’s going to be somebody that’s going to be strong on immigration and it’s going to be somebody that represents the conservative principles that have made this country great,” DeSantis said on “Fox & Friends.”
Speculation has included Attorney General Ashley Moody, former House Speaker José Oliva, DeSantis Chief of Staff James Uthmeier, and even First Lady Casey DeSantis or the Governor himself. Termed out in 2026 and apparently not headed to President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet, there is an argument to be made that the onetime Senate candidate may want to run in two years as the incumbent in what is now a GOP-dominated state.
One name who wanted the job but won’t get it: former Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump.
She said her father-in-law was “a little upset” when it became clear she wouldn’t be headed to the Senate as an appointee of DeSantis.
“The only person that Donald Trump wanted to see there was probably me,” she told the Daily Mail this week.
But the President-elect already seemed to accept that Lara Trump wouldn’t be the pick before she said she was bowing out of consideration just before Christmas.
“I probably don’t (expect it), but I don’t know. Ron’s doing a good job and it’s his choice. Nothing to do with me,” President-elect Trump told reporters in Palm Beach days before she publicly withdrew her name from consideration.
10 comments
Larry Gillis, Libertarian (Cape Coral)
January 10, 2025 at 9:22 am
He won’t be appointing a Libertarian.
That being the case, I will say (with all due disclaimers) that he should probably appoint himself, since he is intimately familiar with the warp and woof of Florida.
Also, he has a working grown-up relationship with Trump (to the extent that any such a thing is possible).
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All about the witch
January 10, 2025 at 10:34 am
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MH/Duuuval
January 10, 2025 at 7:40 pm
Technically, a slim mandate. Having control of all 3 braces of the federal government is a yuge advantage, if the MAGAs can stay in line long enough to get through their major initiative: a yuge tax cut for the wealthy and corporations.
MarvinM
January 11, 2025 at 9:41 pm
For me right now it’s not the slim margin he won by (so, not really a mandate) so much as “Which mandate?” Because he’s going off about all kinds of stuff he never talked about on the campaign trail – making Canada the 51st state, buying (or invading and taking over) Greenland, taking back the Panama Canal.
Nobody voted for that.
MH/Duuuval
January 12, 2025 at 10:06 am
Trump’s slim majority must have averted its gaze from the reality that Trump and his cronies will be hitting the federal budget of yuge tax breaks. This will lead to MAGA legislative pressure to further cut entitlements. Good prescription for the rich and powerful, but what do the rest receive besides some psychic reinforcement of their “innate superiority”?
SuzyQ
January 11, 2025 at 3:26 am
Mere speculation! By speculation I mean political insiders, commentators, and journalists just making stuff up for the next news cycle. America’s Governor, laughing at the news media, has publicly stated he never considered appointing himself to the U.S. Senate. DeSantis will remain Governor of Florida until mid-January of 2027 (2 years from now). That should afford all the posters here, as well as all the clueless political insiders, commentators, and journalists more than enough time to continue speculating about his future prospects or act as if they had some real undisclosed information.
MH/Duuuval
January 11, 2025 at 9:39 am
In MAGA world everything changes depending on the whims of the MAGA capos who operate by the bottom line. For example, EVs were bad and now they are good — but only after a certain proto-fascist donated $250 million to a certain felonious president-elect.
Silly Wabbit
January 11, 2025 at 10:06 am
Suzy kwazy.
Skeptic
January 12, 2025 at 3:34 pm
SuzyQ is right. Any idea that Ronnie D will do something other than serve out the remainder of his term, retire from public life and fade into obscurity is indeed rank speculation. I suppose that during the current Trump Slump, speculation is the only way to make coin.
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