Tuesday, 28 February 2023

The Morning Briefing: DeSantis Seems Content to Let Trump Run Against Trump for a While

The Morning Briefing: DeSantis Seems Content to Let Trump Run Against Trump for a While

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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Elwyn felt that he did his best work when Jupiter was in retrograde and Lawrence Welk reruns were playing on the Laserdisc.

It was an interesting beginning to the week on the "Is Ron DeSantis Running?" front.

Spoiler alert: thus far, no.

On Sunday, Team DeSantis released a video that certainly seemed like it might contain an announcement about the governor's plans. Stephen Green shared it in this post, along with some of his observations on what DeSantis is up to these days:

DeSantis is calmly but quite publicly holding up his state as a model for the nation, just like a governor running for president would do. Except that he has yet to announce that he's running. He hasn't even formed one of those exploratory committees that allows a not-yet candidate to fundraise.

But he is meeting with potential donors, over a hundred of ...