Earlier this month, we discovered that regardless of successfully shifting into Mar-a-Lago to pitch herself as Donald Trump’s VP, Kari Lake’s want for the highlight had apparently backfired and turned off the attention-loving ex-president, leaving her odds of being added to the 2024 ticket in the bathroom. One other one who is unlikely to function the previous man‘s operating mate, however for very totally different causes? Florida governor Ron DeSantis.
In an interview on Tuesday with the Wisconsin Proper Now radio present, DeSantis mentioned he would reject a theoretical supply to run as Trump’s VP in a basic election. “I don’t suppose so. I’m not a quantity two man,” DeSantis mentioned, claiming that he would reasonably proceed serving as governor than develop into vp as a result of the latter position “doesn’t actually have any authority.” (That, in fact, is true; whenever you’re vp, you don’t get to do issues like ban hundreds of thousands of individuals from saying the phrase homosexual.) Quizzed about whom he would select as a operating mate within the occasion he gained the GOP nomination, DeSantis, whose personal allies have mentioned his polling numbers are within the gutter, responded, “It’s a bit of bit presumptuous to be doing that at this stage. I’m right here to win the early primaries, and that’s what we’ve acquired to do first.”
After all, it’s not exhausting to see why the governor can be lower than jazzed in regards to the concept of serving as Trump‘s quantity two, provided that Trump has:
Responding to DeSantis’s rejection of Trump’s potential veep supply, a spokesman for the ex-president informed NBC Information, “Ron DeSantis isn’t anyone’s man. He’s not ‘the man.’ He’s simply ‘a man.’ Ron is simply there, sullen and unhappy, as a result of his numbers are as tiny as him.”
