Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will travel to New Hampshire next month as speculation mounts that he will soon launch a 2024 presidential bid.
News of his planned visit to the early primary state, which will take place on April 14, comes after his Friday visit to Iowa, which still holds the first-in-the-nation presidential caucus for Republicans, and Saturday stop in Nevada. DeSantis will travel to New Hampshire for the state Republican Party’s annual Amos Tuck Dinner in the city of Manchester. The dinner is the state GOP’s largest annual fundraising gala, named for the man considered one of the founders of the Republican Party in the 1850s.
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DeSantis has used the premise of promoting his new book as a reason to visit a number of early voting states, a common tactic for presidential hopefuls. The book, The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival, was released late last month. The biography serves as a political blueprint that DeSantis, the highest polling Republican for the party’s 2024 nomination besides former President Donald Trump, has been able to promote through his nationwide book tour.
The Florida governor has remained tight-lipped about his 2024 plans and is not expected to make an announcement before the conclusion of the state’s legislative session, which ends in May. A growing chorus of DeSantis allies has said in recent weeks that the governor planned to launch his White House bid sometime this summer.
Pressed about his recent travels by Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures over the weekend, and specifically whether his Iowa trip was the “first indication” that he was running, DeSantis claimed he was in the Hawkeye State to sell books.
“It’s the first indication that we have got a great book that people are buying,” he told the network. “We had a lot of interest.”
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DeSantis was joined by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, also a Republican, at his Friday events in Davenport and Des Moines.
“Your governor, Kim Reynolds, is a friend of mine, and I often tell people when they asked me in Florida, you know who else has done a good job, and I always say, you look what Iowa has done,” DeSantis said. “We got a great response across two different cities.”
