<p>Bob Vander Plaats, President and CEO of The FAMiLY Leader, announced Tuesday evening that he is endorsing Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> for president.</p>
<p>Vander Plaats — whose endorsements have won the state in 2008, 2012, and 2016 — made the remarks during an interview with Fox News&#8217; Bret Baier on &#8220;Special Report.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m thrilled to throw my personal endorsement and support behind Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida,&#8221; Vander Plaats said. &#8220;We need to find somebody who can win in 2024 and what we saw in 2022, the supposedly &#8216;red wave&#8217; really only happened in Florida and in Iowa.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Governor DeSantis took a reliable toss-up state in Florida and made it complete red, won by 20 points, won in demographics that we haven&#8217;t won in,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But he&#8217;s also done that by being a bold and courageous leader. So right away, it was kind of his endorsement to lose.&#8221;</p>
<p>Vander Plaats said that the DeSantis family goes to church with him in Iowa and visits people in their homes and offices.</p>
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<p>&#8220;But at last Friday&#8217;s Thanksgiving Family Forum, he closed the sale on me; he was very clear about we need a president who can serve two terms, not one term,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t need a president [who&#8217;s] gonna be a lame duck on day one, you need a president [who&#8217;s] going to surround themselves with the best and brightest people versus having a hard time attracting them again. And someone [who] is actually going to do what they say they&#8217;re going to do.&#8221;</p>
<p>Vander Plaats said that DeSantis &#8220;has the spine&#8221; for the job and has the experienced track record it takes to win.</p>
<p>He shot down accusations from the Trump campaign that DeSantis bought Vander Plaats&#8217; endorsement, saying, &#8220;President Trump knows better than anybody that my endorsement has never been and never will be for sale.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;So it has nothing to do with any any type of money that is being paid or anything like that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I know that&#8217;s what they want to claim, but that is not the case. What we&#8217;re trying to do is we believe 2024 is the most important election of our lifetime. We believe we need to choose and choose well.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added that he believes the GOP primary remains a one-on-one race between Trump and DeSantis and that other candidates needed to drop out so it&#8217;s just those two remaining.</p>
<p>Vander Plaats&#8217; endorsement comes a couple of weeks after Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-enormous-win-popular-iowa-governor-kim-reynolds-to-endorse-ron-desantis-for-president-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> DeSantis for president — the first time a governor in the state has made an endorsement in the primaries in over three decades.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">We need to find somebody who can win in 2024, and that&#39;s why I&#39;m endorsing <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantis</a>. <a href="https://t.co/lV7Zjye3qw">pic.twitter.com/lV7Zjye3qw</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Bob Vander Plaats (@bobvanderplaats) <a href="https://twitter.com/bobvanderplaats/status/1727125747117199393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></p></blockquote>

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