(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Ron DeSantis is likely to skip forming an exploratory committee and directly announce his candidacy for President of The United States in June.
Exploratory committees are half measures that allow potential candidates to behave like a candidate (give speeches about their plans for the office, raise funds, attack opponents, and other such things) without requiring them to be a candidate, as explained by FiveThirtyEight.
DeSantis intends to skip this unnecessary and indirect phase of a campaign and directly announce his bid for office, according to ABC News.
The move has been labeled as aggressive and comes immediately after many significant victories in Florida, such as:
- Signing a bill assigning the death penalty to pedophiles,
- Signing a bill establishing a six-week abortion ban,
- Continuous battles with Disney,
- Attacking Bud Light’s woke insanity,
- Calling for accountability regarding tyrannical COVID policies
- and mocking Blue State lock-downs.
Anonymous sources told ABC News that Governor DeSantis is considering skipping the exploratory committee because he is anxious to make his argument to the American people.
DeSantis seems well prepared to make such an argument, as he has already broken fundraising records before announcing either his candidacy or an exploratory committee.
The sources also told ABC News that DeSantis is already engaging in debate preparation. Because President Trump declared he might skip the debates, DeSantis is preparing for debates against Trump and without Trump.
Despite Trump’s announcement, the sources said they expected Trump and DeSantis to face off on the debate stage.
The sources say the important part of the debate will be introducing DeSantis to the country as a national candidate, not him sparring with the former president.
Hot Air’s contributing editor, John Sexton, noted that the latter half of the ABC article was focused on a former opponent of DeSantis who was attacking him for having a hot temper and not being an agile debate opponent.
“It makes me wonder who is doing the leaking here,” he said.
