Ron DeSantis to visit Texas to help county GOPs raise money

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Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor and potential 2024 presidential candidate, is visiting Texas in March to help raise money for county Republican events.

DeSantis will headline the Harris County GOP’s Lincoln Reagan Dinner on March 3 after which one other get together dinner in Dallas County the subsequent day, in accordance to two folks aware of the planning who weren’t approved to converse on the report earlier than the announcement was made public.

The news of DeSantis’ visit comes as hypothesis continues to mount that he might make a 2024 presidential bid in opposition to former President Donald Trump, who’s already working. The money raised on the dinners will profit the county events, although the occasions give DeSantis an viewers with GOP donors in Houston and Dallas, house to among the get together’s most prolific contributors nationwide.

“Alongside Texas, Florida is one of the nation’s most prosperous and free states thanks to Governor Ron DeSantis’ leadership,” the chair of the Harris County GOP, Cindy Siegel, mentioned in an announcement. “His decisive actions and daring coverage agenda have led to historic accomplishments for the Republican Party and the folks of Florida. We are thrilled to host Governor DeSantis at this yr’s Lincoln Reagan Dinner as he shares his Freedom Blueprint with Harris County!”

Texas’ personal governor, Greg Abbott, can be thought of a doable 2024 contender. While he has saved open the likelihood he might run, his aides say he wouldn’t contemplate till after the present legislative session, which ends in late May. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who ran for the White House in 2016, can be mentioned as a possible 2024 candidate, although he has mentioned in current weeks that he’s working for reelection to his Senate seat.

While Trump already introduced a comeback marketing campaign, many distinguished Texas Republicans haven’t rushed to help him, and a few are ready to see what DeSantis does. In among the state’s conservative circles, DeSantis has already leapfrogged Trump because the GOP’s most fun chief.

Indeed, a save the date for the Dallas County GOP dinner teased DeSantis as “the most requested guest in America.”

A December survey of doubtless Texas main voters from CWS Research, a conservative pollster, discovered DeSantis trailing Trump by only one share level in a hypothetical nominating contest.