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By: The opinion Posted May 24, 2023, 15:23 pm EDT
The Governor of Florida, the Republican Ron DeSantis, finally made official this Wednesday his candidacy in the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential elections, according to US media reports.
According to Fox News, DeSantis, 44, submitted the required documentation to the Federal Election Commissionhours before a conversation that he will have this afternoon with the businessman Elon Musk and that will be broadcast on Twitter.
The governor of Florida is the sixth to run in the Republican primaryafter former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), the first to formalize his aspiration, and former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley.
In addition to them, they have announced that Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and African-American Senator Tim Scott will compete in the primary process.
The announcement means formalizing what had been rumored for a long time, especially since six months ago he won re-election with overwhelming ease, almost 20 percentage points difference, and his name acquired national relevance among American conservatives.
His formal entry into the campaign, which occurs shortly before a meeting with donors that he will hold in Miami, makes him the main rival of former President Trumpthe favorite among Republican candidates and who leads the governor by more than 30 points, according to the polls.
DeSantis is the second best placed, ahead of Haleywho published a campaign video in which he affirms that the governor of Florida is only “an echo” of former President Donald Trump, whom he literally copies, even in gestures.
The former president, who supported him when he ran for Governor of Florida in 2018, at a time when DeSantis was a total unknown, has not stopped attacking him almost daily through the Truth social network.
With information from Efe.
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