{"id":48529,"date":"2021-05-02T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T20:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48529"},"modified":"2021-05-02T16:19:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T20:19:21","slug":"will-gov-ron-desantis-be-former-president-donald-trumps-running-mate-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/05\/will-gov-ron-desantis-be-former-president-donald-trumps-running-mate-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Gov. Ron DeSantis be Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s running mate in 2024?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former President Donald Trump floated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a potential running mate in 2024 during&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-desantis-2024-running-mate-considered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a phone interview with Maria Bartiromo<\/a>&nbsp;on FOX Business, citing their friendship and his gubernatorial endorsement of DeSantis in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Trump-desantis2-696x746-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48530\" width=\"498\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Trump-desantis2-696x746-1.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Trump-desantis2-696x746-1-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At the start of the Mornings with Maria interview on April 29, Trump praised Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina for his response to President Joe Biden\u2019s speech to Congress, and criticized the border not being a topic during the address. Biden did, however, address the border and immigration&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/politics\/americas-democracy-is-rising-anew-biden-declares-in-address-to-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">while speaking to Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s wide-ranging interview covered infrastructure, border control, the migrant crisis, COVID-19 vaccinations, China and Biden\u2019s economic plans, before discussing a potential 2024 presidential run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartiromo asked if he was considering running, and he told her he was very interested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYes, 100%,\u201d Trump said, \u201cand the polls show that everybody wants me to do it. One hundred percent I\u2019m thinking about running, and I think we will be very successful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump discussed the number of votes in the 2020 election and criticized the state of the votes, before Bartiromo switched topics to ask him directly about having DeSantis as a running mate, in reference to Trump \u201cseeing him more\u201d in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cWell, he\u2019s a friend of mine, I endorsed Ron and, after I endorsed him, he took off like a rocket ship,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe\u2019s done a great job as governor, a lot of people like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump said DeSantis \u201cwould certainly be considered,\u201d and said he was a \u201cgreat guy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump floated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a potential running mate in 2024 during&nbsp;a phone interview with Maria Bartiromo&nbsp;on FOX Business, citing their friendship and his gubernatorial&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[212,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}