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DeSantis, who is scheduled to depart his present position in January 2027, turned to talk about a potential 2028 presidential candidacy and stated he hasn’t “ruled anything out.”
“We’re still in this election cycle, so it’s presumptuous to say this or that,” he said.
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He added: “I think a lot happens in politics,” noting he had heard a “lot of people on the ground” declaring that they would back him in the future.
Throughout his campaign, DeSantis faced the harsh criticism from the outgoing president and his supporters.
“I think [Trump’s] got people in his inner circle who were a part of our orbit years ago that we fired, and I think some of that is they have an ax to grind,” he said.
Susie Wiles, a pivotal role in Trump 2024, first assisted in guiding the governor’s triumphant 2018 campaign and was assigned to manage the transition in Tallahassee, even though DeSantis refrained from naming people. But as The Post revealed, their relationship gradually deteriorated, and Wiles was fired in September.
“The dynamic of the race is not that they were attacking me and Republican voters all of a sudden didn’t like me,” DeSantis added. “That wasn’t it at all. The dynamics of the race were, he kept getting indicted, and he drew more support out of sympathy for that, and then he had the conservative media that basically rallied to him and made it where a lot of voters thought his nomination was inevitable.”
“In Iowa, the reason why turnout was so low,” DeSantis said, was that “a lot of conservative voters … had just tuned out the process because they thought he was inevitable… That was our responsibility to try and change that dynamic. That’s why we were on the ground so much in Iowa.”
