Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis refused to rule out another White House run in a recent sitdown with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
“We’ll see,” the Republican Sunshine State governor responded when asked point-blank by Hannity if he would “run for president again.”
DeSantis, 47, is term-limited and will leave office in January 2027 – about a year before the start of the 2028 presidential primaries.
The governor was viewed as one of the most viable alternatives to Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP primaries, but he dropped out of the race shortly after a second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.
Trump topped DeSantis by roughly 30 percentage points in Iowa.
DeSantis argued that had Trump not been running in 2024, he would’ve garnered the support of most of the president’s backers.
“In 2024, like in Iowa, the people that voted for Trump – if he wasn’t running – I would’ve gotten like 90% of those people,” the governor said during his appearance on the “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” podcast.
“They were conservative voters, right?” DeSantis continued. “They didn’t want the non-conservative – they wanted me.”
“The timing didn’t work out, obviously, for that.”
The latest 2028 GOP presidential primary polls show Vice President JD Vance is the overwhelming frontrunner in the race.
Vance received 40% support in an Echelon Insights survey released last week.
The same survey showed Secretary of State Marco Rubio polling in second with 16% support.
DeSantis pulled only 5% backing, behind the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., who garnered 9% support.
A Saint Anselm College Survey Center poll of New Hampshire primary voters similarly found DeSantis receiving only 5% support in the Granite State – tied with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
Vance was the top choice of New Hampshire Republicans, receiving 46% support, followed by Rubio at 27%, according to the poll released Monday.
Hannity’s full interview with DeSantis airs Tuesday.
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