A.G. Gancarski
The First Couple spent part of Saturday with the potential kingmaker in next year’s race to succeed Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to a published report.
The Governor and First Lady Casey DeSantis breakfasted with President Donald Trump, according to Meridith McGraw of the Wall Street Journal.
Trump has endorsed U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds in the race, even as the First Lady continues to tease a potential run to fill her husband’s current role.
“To quote the late Yogi Berra,” the First Lady said Friday when asked if she was running, “if you see a fork in the road, take it.”
The Governor amplified the memorably quotable former New York Yankee in his own quippy comments at Florida International University.
“”You guys can read into that what you will,” he said. “I think she’s leaving that to the imagination and to start talking about good old Yogi Berra, because you know he had a lot of very perceptive comments.”
Baseball quotes aside, Donalds told Fox News host Bill Hemmer that he expects competition despite Trump’s early endorsement.
“I do. I mean, look, I would love for things to be easy. But nothing’s ever easy, especially in politics,” Donalds said Friday.
Donalds has also said he wants to “pick DeSantis’ brain,” and has positioned himself as a staunch defender of the Governor, including after the then-candidate expressed worry that Democrat Andrew Gillum would “monkey this up” if elected in 2018.
DeSantis has said Donalds hasn’t contributed to victories “over the left” in the state, but in recent days the rhetoric has been dialed down.
11 comments
Ron Ogden
March 1, 2025 at 2:52 pm
The Republicans of Florida, not just one of them, will determine our next governor.
Peachy
March 1, 2025 at 3:17 pm
Yes. Keep Florida Red. Kalifornians should go through a class before they are allowed to vote in Florida. Don’t Kalifornia my Florida.
Ocean Joe
March 1, 2025 at 5:56 pm
Ron, you serious? Remember Adam Putnam? You guys will vote like lemmings for whoever Trump tells you to vote for.
Now since he’s a compulsive liar, he might be convinced to switch his endorsement, otherwise Donalds will be your candidate.
Democrats just vote for the loser.
But if John Morgan gets a serious campaign together as an independent, it will be interesting and maybe something will get done for the people instead of publicity stunts and war on woke nonsense.
Ron Ogden
March 1, 2025 at 8:12 pm
You understand politics like a clam understands physics.
Ocean Joe
March 2, 2025 at 7:58 am
Your party belongs to Trump. Even a bivalve knows that.
PeterH
March 1, 2025 at 6:39 pm
If John Morgan runs …. he will certainly have my vote and I would predict a million other independent voters and most Democrats in this State of national disgrace! It will take a decade or two to undo the unproductive chaos the Republican Party has bestowed on this State.
SuzyQ
March 2, 2025 at 1:14 am
Casey ’26 gubernatorial campaign will crush the competition, breaking the glass ceiling in Florida, should Florida’s First Lady decide to run. She’s already made history by being the first to give birth in the Governor’s Mansion and can make it again by becoming Florida’s first female Governor. Florida will remain in good hands under bold leadership.
Ocean Joe
March 2, 2025 at 8:03 am
I thought the GOP would make history by giving Florida its first Black governor. Guess I was being a bit too optimistic about his chances among the party faithful. Some things will never change.
SuzyQ
March 2, 2025 at 9:04 am
The Democratic Party will never win a statewide election as long as its paradigm is trapped in identity politics. Your hope for Florida’s first anything courtesy of Florida’s Republican Party is disingenuous at best.
JD
March 2, 2025 at 9:29 am
Agreed. Anything from the Republican Party is disingenuous at best.
You amuse us more than you know.
Skeptic
March 2, 2025 at 11:17 am
So Suzy Q . . . no first woman governor or first black governor from the Florida GOP? Thanks for slaying the candidacies of the two announced pretenders.