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- Donald Trump thinks he'd beat Florida governor Ron DeSantis if they both ran for president in 2024.
- Trump told The New Yorker, "I think I would win."
- Trump added that he's "very close to making a decision" about whether or not he'll run.
Former President Donald Trump thinks he'd defeat Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis if they both ran for president in 2024.
"I don't know if Ron is running, and I don't ask him," Trump told The New Yorker in a story published on Monday. "It's his prerogative. I think I would win."
It's not the first time Trump has said he'd beat DeSantis. Speaking of DeSantis in an October interview with Yahoo Finance, Trump said: "If I faced him, I'd beat him like I would beat everyone else."
Speaking with the New Yorker, Trump also said he doesn't think DeSantis would have been elected governor without his support.
"If I didn't endorse him, he wouldn't have won," Trump told the New Yorker.
Neither DeSantis nor Trump has officially announced a run for president.
Trump told the New Yorker he's "very close to making a decision" on whether or not he'll run for president again.
Rolling Stone reported last week that Trump is mulling announcing a 2024 White House bid near Tallahassee, Florida's capital, to show DeSantis "who the boss is."
In a straw poll held during the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, 59% of attendees said they wanted Trump to be the GOP nominee in 2024. DeSantis came in second with support from 28% of CPAC attendees.
Earlier this month, in a poll taken during the Western Conservative Summit, attendees were asked to vote for all of the candidates they'd approve for president. DeSantis prevailed with approval from 71.01% of voters, compared to 67.68% for Trump.
source https://businessinsider.com/trump-says-he-would-beat-desantis-in-2024-president-run-2022-6