DeSantis Likely To Announce Presidential Campaign Decision Next Week

New details have emerged about the time and place of Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign rollout.

According to two sources familiar with his plans, the Florida governor will host a donor meeting with his biggest financial backers on May 24-26 in Miami.

The sources told multiple outlets that the governor would likely file federal campaign finance forms to coincide with the meeting, followed by a formal campaign announcement a few days later in Dunedin, Florida — his hometown.

Representatives for DeSantis declined to comment on the revelations.

The Washington Post continues:

The second-term governor, widely considered at present to be the most viable GOP challenger to former president Donald Trump, has been laying the groundwork for a campaign for months. In speeches around the country, he has touted his landslide reelection win last year and his sweeping legislative agenda in Florida — passed this spring by GOP supermajorities — and also implicitly pitched himself as a better bet than Trump in the general election.

The people familiar with the plans spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe plans that had not been announced publicly. The Wall Street Journal first reported Wednesday evening that DeSantis plans to enter the race next week.

Doubts about DeSantis’s presidential prospects have grown in recent months as Trump has surged in national polls of the GOP race and attacked DeSantis, and as some donors have voiced concerns about the governor’s policy moves. But the governor has rebuilt some momentum over the past week, rolling out large slates of endorsements from state lawmakers in Iowa, New Hampshire and Florida.

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A super PAC supporting DeSantis has been running ads and organizing in key states. And DeSantis has traveled to early nominating states including Iowa, the first-in-the-nation GOP caucus state, where he spoke at several events on Saturday.

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