The 2024 election overshadowed President Joe Biden’s trip to Florida on Saturday to survey hurricane relief efforts, as the state’s governor and White House hopeful Ron DeSantis snubbed the visiting commander in chief.
Minutes before DeSantis was due to sit down with CNN, Trump announced he was expecting to be indicted for a third time, this time as part of the federal probe into his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Long viewed as the most formidable challenger to Donald Trump in the Republican US presidential nominating contest, Ron DeSantis boasts a record of ultra-conservative legislative wins and a pile of campaign cash.
Among the declared and prospective 2024 candidates, Biden’s old adversary Donald Trump has a considerable lead on DeSantis, while the pack trailing a long way behind includes four candidates of color.
The conversation repeatedly crashed as the platform’s servers were apparently overwhelmed, and many of the 400,000-plus users who were hoping to listen in missed the 44-year-old conservative throwing down the gauntlet to Republican primary frontrunner Donald Trump.
The Florida governor — who will announce on Wednesday that he is running for president, ending months of feverish speculation — has spent four years molding his state into the front line of the battle for the soul of America.
From Florida governor Ron DeSantis to Tunisian tennis star Ons Jabeur and Britain’s Prince Harry, here are 10 people who are expected to make headlines in 2023.
