<p>As the 2024 presidential election approaches (sure, there are 868 days until Election Day, but who&#8217;s counting?), reports have swirled that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) won&#8217;t run if former President Donald Trump does.</p>
<p>But don&#8217;t look for that quote &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t exist.</p>
<p>Trump, though, has said that if he throws in his hat, DeSantis won&#8217;t. &#8220;I do think if I run, he won’t,” Trump <a href="https://floridapolitics.com/archives/477954-if-i-run-he-wont-donald-trump-downplays-ron-desantis-2024-hopes/">said</a> in December 2021. “I know they try and create a friction. I don’t think it exists at all. It might, you know, you never know. If he wanted to run, that’s OK with me. I think we’d win by a lot. But he’s good. And he’s done a good job as governor.”</p>
<p>And for his part, DeSantis, playing coy like all politicians, says he&#8217;s plenty happy just serving the people of Florida. &#8220;I&#8217;m not considering anything beyond doing my job. We got a lot of stuff going on in Florida. I&#8217;m going to be running for reelection next year,&#8221; DeSantis <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/florida-gov-ron-desantis-says-031935029.html">said</a> in September 2020.</p>
<p>So, essentially, nobody knows anything. But now we at least know that Trump hasn&#8217;t even asked DeSantis if he&#8217;s making a presidential run in 2024.</p>
<p>“I don’t know if Ron is running, and I don’t ask him,” Trump <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/27/can-ron-desantis-displace-donald-trump-as-the-gops-combatant-in-chief" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New Yorker in an interview for an upcoming cover story. “It’s his prerogative. I think I would win.”</p>
<p>The piece also exposes some friction between the two.</p>
<p>&#8220;The thing that grated most was that, as Trump considered running in 2024, DeSantis did not rule out a campaign of his own. The more plausible DeSantis has become as a nominee, the more people have speculated that he might decide to take on Trump,&#8221; the magazine said.</p>
<p>The author wrote: &#8220;Trump told me that he was &#8216;very close to making a decision&#8217; about whether to run&#8230;. In nearly every poll of likely Republican contenders, Trump still has a solid advantage: DeSantis’s constituency was Trump’s first. Trump seems to want to keep it that way. A consultant who has worked for several Republican candidates said that the former President had talked with confidants about ways to stop DeSantis: &#8216;Trump World is working overtime to find ways to burn DeSantis down. They really hate him.'&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.</em></p>

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