“2024 US Presidential Race: Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump, and the Republican Contenders”

2023-04-26 09:47:00

• VonDaniel Dillmann

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After Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Ron DeSantis might now officially enter the US presidential race. A political trick makes this possible.

Tallahassee – Florida Republicans are preparing legislation that would allow Ron DeSantis to run for the 2024 presidential election without giving up his position as state governor. For this, Florida’s so-called “resign-to-run-law” would have to be amended.

To date, this law requires that every state officer must resign before running for another federal office. That would force DeSantis to resign as governor before he can run for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election. But that’s exactly what DeSantis’ party friend Travis Hutson wants to prevent. According to his amendment, the law would explicitly bar the candidacy for the posts of president and vice president. This means that if DeSantis loses the Republican primaries – especially once morest Donald Trump – or a possible US presidential election, he might simply continue his post as governor.

Donald Trump is back – but the competition is tough

Now it’s out: Donald Trump wants to run once more as US President in 2024. Then the billionaire from New York will be 78 years old. Trump held the office from 2017 to 2021, but lost the 2020 election and had to forego a second term. This should now succeed on the third attempt. Trump would be only the second president in US history to make such a comeback. © Andrew Harnik/dpa

Nikki Haley is another candidate for the 2024 US election nomination. The 50-year-old Republican changes her stance on Donald Trump like other people change clothes. Once Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, she was a close confidant of the ex-president. After the storming of the Capitol, Haley distanced himself. Then, a year before the midterms, she said she would support Trump if he ran once more. But in midterm election year, the former South Carolina governor said she would like to run in 2024 “if there’s a place for me.” © Evan Vuccid/dpa

Vivek Ramaswamy announced on February 21 that he intends to become the Republican nominee for US presidency. The 37-year-old right-wing tech entrepreneur with Indian roots is a Trump fan and is pursuing an anti-Woke agenda. He sees the USA in a “national identity crisis” and calls for a “national revival”. To do this, he wants to abolish the FBI and the Ministry of Education, for example. He wants to take Trump’s “America First Aganda to the next level”. © Anna Moneymaker / AFP

Donald Trump’s toughest competitor for the Republican nomination for the 2024 US election is Ron DeSantis. The 44-year-old Florida governor celebrated a clear victory at the midterms and was confirmed in office by the electorate. He is considered the beacon of hope in the party. DeSantis had staged himself as a Trump fan in the past, but is now distancing himself from the ex-president. The politician can be seen here with his wife Casey DeSantis and their three children. © IMAGO/Luis Santana

Mike Pence might run for President in the 2024 US election.

Not only Donald Trump is flirting with a comeback in Washington, DC His former vice president is also said to have ambitions for the post in the White House. So far, Mike Pence has not announced a candidacy, but with critical comments following the midterms, the ultra-conservative 63-year-old positions himself for a possible power struggle within the Republican Party. © IMAGO/Aimee Dilger

Does he want to be US President? Mike Pompeo before the Capitol Storming Committee.

Mike Pompeo is a little clearer. The former Secretary of State under Donald Trump is seen here testifying via video link before the Congressional Committee on the storming of the Capitol on January 6. Pompeo has already made it clear that he and his team are preparing for a 2024 candidacy. The first commercials are running and are supposed to secure him the Republican nomination. © IMAGO/Pool via CNP /MediaPunch

Liz Cheney, Republican veteran and Donald Trump’s competitor

As a big-name underdog, Liz Cheney enters the race for the Republican nomination. The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney was once considered the new star of the party. But her criticism of Donald Trump and the MAGA cult cost her her position within the Republican Party. Her steadfastness once morest the ex-president might now help her make a political comeback. © JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP

South Dakota Governor KRISTI NOEM speaks at CPAC 2021: America UnCanceled. Organized

Kristi Noem is one of the few Republican protagonists to emerge victorious from the Midterms. The South Dakota governor defended her post and might aim higher. The first commercials are said to have already been broadcast by their team. When asked regarding her political ambitions with a destination in Washington, D.C., Noem said, “I’m not ruling that out at all.” © Brian Cahn/imago

Senator Rick Scott campaigns for Herschel Walker and the Republicans

Rick Scott, here campaigning for Herschel Walker, lost the Senate election with his Republicans. The 69-year-old Florida senator had said before the midterms that he was certain his party would get “at least 52 seats”. That didn’t work, but Scott’s political career doesn’t have to be over for a long time – quite the opposite. Scott is said to have run for the role of Republican Speaker in the Senate, but was dissuaded by party members, according to the Washington Post. Supposedly they have bigger and more secret plans with Scott, which should have something to do with a White House and the year 2024. © ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/IMAGO

Glen Youngkin campaigns with Yesli Vega at the Midterms

Along with Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, Glen Youngkin, seen here with Yesil Vega campaigning for the Midterms, is one of the big favorites for the Republican nomination for 2024. The 55-year-old governor of the state of Virginia is neither a close ally of Donald Trump another bitter critic. Exactly this attitude might offer little attack surface in the coming weeks and months with the former college basketball player, who is over two meters tall. © ALEX WONG/AFP

Mike Lindell and Kari Lake campaign for the Republicans ahead of the midterms

After her defeat in Arizona, Kari Lake should only have outsider chances for the Republican nomination for the 2024 election. The 52-year-old is a close ally of Donald Trump and, like her role model, a proponent of the “Great Election Fraud” conspiracy theory of 2020. Lake also branded her defeat in the midterm gubernatorial election as “nonsense.” When Lake isn’t posing with QAnon supporter Mike Lindell, as she does here, she likes to hang out with people like Greyson Arnold, for whom Adolf Hitler is a “complicated historical figure,” according to CNN [ist]that many people misunderstand”. © IMAGO/Lev Radin

Ted Cruz and Donald Trump in Las Vegas

Will Ted Cruz try once more? The Florida senator won his midterms election and may feel empowered to attack in the race for the 2024 election. It wouldn’t be the first try. Cruz has already reached for the stars once before. In the 2016 primary election, the now 51-year-old politician failed because of Donald Trump. The later US President called Cruz the “lying Ted” and speculated in a television debate that his deceased father was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The insults didn’t stop Cruz from becoming one of his biggest supporters following Trump’s election victory. © Mike Nelson/afp

Chris Sununu, Republican candidate in the 2024 US election

In the US media, they are already calling him the “dark horse” of the Republicans, i.e. the candidate regarding whom little is known but who surprisingly wins in the end: Chris Sununu. The governor of the US state of New Hampshire has in the past clearly distanced himself from Donald Trump and told CBS television network that he did not believe the former president had a chance of winning in 2024. Sununu himself has not yet announced his candidacy, but according to Newsweek, a political action committee linked to the governor has already started work. The first social media ads were placed in Iowa and South Carolina, the states in which the Republican presidential primaries are beginning. © WADE VANDERVORT/AFP

Kanye West wants to be US President and will take office in 2024

Yes, Kanye West would also like to become US President in 2024. The artist, previously known as a rapper and fashion designer, had already announced a candidacy in 2020, but was not even registered in the voter register at the time. Whether he is more serious this time remains to be seen. Whether he throws his hat in the Republican ring, founds his own party or will compete without any apparatus – that too remains Je’s secret. © ANGELA WEISS/AFP

Donald Trump is far ahead of Ron DeSantis in polls

“I’m a little biased because I think Governor DeSantis did such a good job,” Hutson told the news outlet NBC. “I just want to make it clear that if he doesn’t become the Republican nominee, he can come back.”

The law is unlikely to meet with much opposition in either Congress or the state Senate. Republicans hold solid majorities in both chambers. If both houses agree, as expected, the bill would end up on DeSantis’ desk for signature.

While Ron DeSantis is touring Japan with his wife Casey, Florida Republicans are preparing legislation that would allow him to run for president.

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That would offer the 44-year-old governor a safe exit strategy if he were to lose the primaries to his major rival within the party, Donald Trump – a scenario that, given the poll numbers, seems quite realistic. According to the statistical surveys of the election research site RealClearPolitics Trump leads DeSantis by a significant margin of more than ten points. Some polls even give the former president up to 30 percentage points more than DeSantis.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump announce candidacies: What is Ron DeSantis doing

While Joe Biden and Donald Trump have made their candidacies for 2024 public, Ron DeSantis is not yet showing his cards. Florida’s governor has long been touring through states that are important for the primary elections in the USA and, according to the right-wing conservative, is holding Washington Examiner there “speeches that seem more and more like election campaign appearances”. So far, however, DeSantis has not been able to elicit a clear position once morest Joe Biden or Donald Trump. But the new law in Florida might lay the foundation for this.

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