Ron DeSantis

Conservative Daily Beast columnist Matt Lewis has seen enough of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to believe that he shouldn't even bother to challenge for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

In his latest column, Lewis argues that a DeSantis presidential campaign would be a "fool's errand" given the Florida governor's apparent weaknesses as a candidate on the national stage.

Much like in 2016, the race for the Republican Party presidential nomination is looking to be very crowded -- and that is reportedly making former President Donald Trump very happy.

Politico reports that the entrance of Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) into the race has Trump and his allies rubbing their hands over the potential that he and other GOP candidates will dilute support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whom they see as the top challenger for the 2024 GOP nomination.

Accusing Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of enacting an unconstitutional law that would not have been out of place at the turn of the last century, a group of Chinese American immigrants on Monday filed a lawsuit against the state over S.B. 264, which restricts most Chinese citizens from purchasing homes in Florida.

The law is set to take effect on July 1, but the plaintiffs and the groups representing them—including the ACLU, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), the Chinese American Legal Defense Alliance (CALDA), and the ACLU of Florida—hope to block the measure in the courts.

The NAACP's travel advisory warning that Florida is “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals" is the latest sign of a growing backlash against Gov. Ron DeSantis' enactment of ultra right-wing laws targeting marginalized groups, columnist Ja’han Jones wrote for MSNBC Monday.

"Under the leadership of Governor DeSantis, the state of Florida has become hostile to Black Americans and in direct conflict with the democratic ideals that our union was founded upon," the NAACP said in a statement over the weekend.

A Gov. Ron DeSantis-backed program that offered cash for cops to relocate to Florida departments lured some officers with histories of violence, kidnapping and murder, according to a report from The Daily Dot.

DeSantis spent more than $13.5 million on the recruitment bonus program which was created to entice officers from other states who were frustrated by COVID-19 vaccination mandates.

This Wednesday, May 24, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to officially announce his plans to enter the 2024 GOP presidential primary. Polls have been showing former President Donald Trump with considerable leads over the MAGA governor in hypothetical matchups, including 42 percent (Harvard-Harris) or 45 percent (Rasmussen). But DeSantis' supporters are hoping that the May 24 announcement will give him a badly needed boost.

When DeSantis makes his presidential run official, that will bring him intensified scrutiny from Trump as well as from Democratic strategists and President Joe Biden's reelection campaign. And one thing they may be taking a close look at, according to Reuters, is DeSantis' relationship with Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas.

Erin Perrine, a former communications director for Donald Trump, criticized the former president for being unable to ban kneeling in the NFL and failing to remove Whoopi Goldberg from TV.

During an appearance on Fox Business, Perrine explained why she had decided to lead a super PAC supporting Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for president in 2024.

Donald Trump’s super PAC has spent $15.3 million on attack ads targeting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – an amount that's more than the combined spending on Republican Senate candidates during the 2022 midterm elections, National Review reported Monday.

The whopping total from the PAC – MAGA, Inc. – also dwarfs the $1,500 that it has spent on supporting Trump, the report said. Polls show Trump far ahead in the GOP field for the 2024 presidential nomination, but DeSantis is expected to confirm this week that he’ll enter the race as Trump’s top challenger.

Any hope that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) might have that prominent "Never-Trumpers" will flock to his side after he formally announces his bid for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination may have to be put on hold, reports the Miami Herald.

In interviews with conservative critics of Donald Trump who have been waving red flags about a possible second term for the scandal-plagued former president, there isn't tremendous enthisiasm for the Florida governor even as a second choice.

Right-wing podcast host Stephen Crowder and his co-hosts mocked the NAACP's Florida travel advisory in a broadcast Monday.

In a statement over the weekend, the organization said that the state has been "openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color, and L.G.B.T.Q.+ individuals" under Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

Former President Donald Trump took yet another swipe at Ron DeSantis, describing him as a "liddle lightweight" and mocking his claims that Trump can't win the presidential election.

"I’ve won two Elections, the second far bigger than the first (it was Rigged!)," he wrote in a post to Truth Social this Monday.

A new focus group of battleground state voters who backed former President Donald Trump in 2016 and then switched to President Joe Biden in 2020 made clear that for most of them, going back to Trump would be unthinkable, reported The Washington Post on Monday.

"Every single one said they wished Biden and his old Republican foe Donald Trump were not running for reelection. Several offered dire assessments of Biden’s mental and physical capacities, calling him too old or speculating about the possibility of dementia," reported Michael Scherer, Emily Guskin, and Scott Clement. "But as the focus group moderator steered the conversation to the possibility of a Biden rematch next year with Trump, the mood clearly shifted among these voters, who had all cast a ballot for Trump in 2016 and then Biden in 2020. Nine of the 15 said they would vote again for Biden, three said they would go back to Trump and three said they would either not vote or find a third-party candidate."