If DeSantis Runs for President, This Is When He’ll Announce: Political Analyst

The senior political correspondent for The New York Times expects Florida Gov. 👤Ron Desantis to announce a run for the presidency — if at all — sometime around Memorial Day.

Maggie Haberman, tweeting a link to a story she and colleague Michael C. Bender wrote for The Times on Sunday, said that “DeSantis is said to be looking at a late May / early June entrance if he runs.”

That would be, as Haberman noted, a late entry into the race, but certainly not an impossibly late one.

The focus of the piece in The Times was on how DeSantis was navigating — and how he might continue to navigate — the multiple attacks former President Donald Trump has made against the governor whom many see as the most likely alternative to a Trump nomination in 2024.

One exchange with a member of the media last week illustrated DeSantis’ current approach to handling Trump’s barbs.

A reporter asked DeSantis about insinuations made by the former president on social media that DeSantis had “behaved inappropriately with high school girls while he was a teacher in his early 20s.”