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President Donald Trump He is making it very clear who would support the successful career of Governor 2026 to succeed the Governor of Florida Limited Limited Ron Desantis.
“I’m listening to that very respected Congressman Byron Donalds He is considering running for Governor of Florida, a state that I love, and won in 2016, 2020 and 2024, “Trump wrote, a resident of Florida, in a publication on social networks on Thursday.
And the president emphasized that Donalds, a friend of Trump, an ally and supporter of a lifetime, “would be a truly great and powerful governor for Florida.”
Trump added that Donalds, “if he decides to run, he will have my full and total support. Run, Byron, runs!”
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Byron Donalds speaks within the capital One Arena in an event for President Donald Trump, on the opening day of Trump’s second presidential mandate, in Washington DC, on January 20, 2025. Reuters/Mike Segar (Reuters/Mike Fresh)
Donalds, a former conservative state legislator who has represented parts of the southwest District 19 of Florida In Congress for four years, he has been watching a possible governor offer for almost a year.
“I’ve thought about it. I really don’t rule out anything,” Donalds said in a Fox News digital interview last spring when asked about a possible career for the governor.
The sources confirmed to Fox News last month that Donalds had been telling possible donors and political players of Florida who intends to run for governor.
Why Trump praises the main presidential rival of Desantis.
Another signal also arrived last month, when Donalds hired the outstanding republican polls of Tony Fabrizio. Fabrizio was a main pollster in Trump 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns.
Florida’s sources tell Fox News that Donalds, behind the scene, continues to make movements towards the launch of a governor campaign.
The representative Byron Donalds of Florida speaks during day 1 of the Republican National Convention, in the FISVer forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 15, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Fresh)
And a source in Donalds’s political orbit told Fox News on Thursday that the congressman has been pressing a lot for Trump’s support, in an effort to displace possible rivals for the nomination to the nomination of governor of the Republican Party.
Another outstanding Republican from Florida who is seriously considering a career for governor is the state agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson, the former president of the state Senate.
It was also speculated that Desantis’s wife, Florida’s first lady, Casey Desantis, was considering a race to happen to her husband in Tallahassee. TO Survey published earlier this weekHe suggested that Casey Desantis would be favored in the race, attracted a lot of attention.
Former representative Matt Gaetz de Florida, who was Trump’s first option for the Attorney General in his second administration before leaving in the middle of the controversy, at the end of last year, made a noise on the potential functioning for the governor. But there has been little buzzed in recent weeks about a possible Gaetz campaign.
Dan Eberhart, an executive director of oil drilling with headquarters in Florida and an outstanding republican donor who has raised a lot Run, I would “bring a new conservative vision for the future of Florida that will be difficult to overcome.”
The publication on Trump’s social networks was his second this week to pump Donalds.
Trump showed on Monday a screenshot of a survey conducted by a group aligned with Donalds that told the congressman who led in a hypothetical confrontation of Governor of Florida.
Trump has been talking about Donalds for more than a year when it comes to a possible career for the governor. In a collection of funds behind closed doors in New York City last spring, Trump suggested that if Donalds was running for the governor of Florida, he would have “many friends in the race.”
Donalds, speaking with Fox News Digital shortly after Trump made the comments, said: “It’s really great that people return home in Florida to consider me the next state governor. It is really an honor. It is honestly a thought surreal because I “m 45 and my trip through politics has been really fruitful.”
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With Florida, which was once a state of battlefield of the general elections, now firmly red, the governor nomination fight of the emerging Republican Party will slowly be very affected by Trump’s support in his state of adopted origin.
But not being discounted is any possible backup in the race to succeed the governor.
