Does Ron DeSantis Want to Be the GOP Nominee? – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Does Ron DeSantis Want to Be the GOP Nominee?

Daniel J. Flynn
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during his inauguration ceremony on Jan. 3, 2023 (image courtesy Gov. Ron DeSantis)

Maria Bartiromo of Fox News asked Ron DeSantis about his campaign failing to meet expectations. “The media does not want me to be the nominee,” he answered.

While he may speak the truth, he does so to hide a truth.

Does Ron DeSantis want to be the nominee? From the disastrous online launch met with technical difficulties to the ill-advised ad attacking Donald Trump for basically expressing a live-and-let-live attitude toward homosexuals, Florida’s governor does not so much run as he stumbles for president.

The good news? Bill Clinton, John McCain, Joe Biden, and others struggled early before winning the presidential nomination of their parties.

Internally, DeSantis needs to look into the mirror regarding his problems rather than use it as a shiny object to distract as he does with the media.

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Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2024-2025 academic year. His books include Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America (ISI Books, 2011), A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008), and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Crown Forum, 2004). In 2025, he releases his magnum opus, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. He splits time between city Massachusetts and cabin Vermont.  
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