A.G. Gancarski
Investor sentiment is building against the First Lady running for Governor in 2026.
On the question of whether Casey DeSantis will run for Governor, Polymarket shows a “yes” share now at 40 cents.
To put that in perspective, a “yes” was priced at 71 cents on March 9, suggesting that people willing to spend money on this proposition are moving away from what would be an unprecedented campaign.
Gov. Ron DeSantis and the First Lady have done their part to try to stoke interest in the still prospective campaign, including by strategic undercutting of President Donald Trump’s endorsement of U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds.
This month saw the First Couple golf with Trump. They also had breakfast together.
Casey and Ron DeSantis quoted baseball legend Yogi Berra when addressing reporters recently, stoking speculation that she would run.
“To quote the late Yogi Berra,” the First Lady said when asked if she was running, “if you see a fork in the road, take it.”
“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.”
The long-dead and largely forgotten Berra isn’t likely to endorse in next year’s Republican Primary. But others, including the Club for Growth PAC and Donald Trump Jr., are on board with Donalds in what appears to be an early attempt to clear the field and foreclose the possibility of a DeSantis dynasty.
3 comments
Earl Pitts American
March 12, 2025 at 1:21 pm
Now hold om everybody,
Wasent there a real nice, highly imtelegant, and good looking too poster who told us quite some time back that Ron & The Beautiful Casey would not run for Govornor due to their existing obligation to run our great nation durring the 2 POTUS TERMS after Trump?
Who was that “Sage Genious”?
HHHhhhMMMmmm … Oh yeah it was Earl Pitts American !!!!
Ron Ogden
March 12, 2025 at 1:44 pm
Florida Republicans are not going to roll over. If we judge a candidate to be the better candidate, we will vote for the better candidate, regardless of what a lot of powers that be may say. At this point, it is uncertain what Byron Donalds might bring to the table except the apparent support of one person. A lot of this talk about him is merely the media trying to gin up dissension among Republicans so that their favorite, tentatively identified as ADSB for Any Democrat Still Breathing, can delude the party into thinking there is a chance. Castor, Fried, Graham, Deegan, whomever: it will be an easier road for them if the Republicans fight among themselves, and that is the goal of every media outlet between Pensacola and Key West.
Larry Gillis, Libertarian (Cape Coral)
March 12, 2025 at 1:51 pm
TOO BAD. Too bad that you insist on discussing personalities and personal ambitions, instead of THE ISSUES. The central issues in this gubernatorial race should be personal freedom and personal responsibilty, “who’s on first”. IMHO and that of my Party (the Libertarians), the governor is simply one of the “hired help”, nothing more.
Live Free or Die.
http://www.lpf.org