Trump Will Vote For DeSantis In FL Governor's Race: Report

FLORIDA — President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he plans to vote for Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is seeking re-election, in November.

Trump is registered to vote in Palm Beach, where his private club and permanent residence, Mar-A-Lago, is located, according to Business Insider.

Both Trump and DeSantis have emerged as frontrunners in the 2024 Republican presidential primary with the former president dominating a straw poll Sunday at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa.

Nearly 79 percent of those who responded to the straw poll said they would vote for Trump in 2024, Fox News reported. DeSantis was his closest competitor with 19 percent of respondents saying they would support the governor in a presidential run.

After that, 1 percent said they’d vote for South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, while .5 percent said they’d vote for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Sen. Ted Cruz, former ambassador Nikki Haley and former Vice President Mike Pence each garnered the support of .3 percent of respondents.

Trump told WSJ that it was “a very good poll.”

Discussing his relationship with DeSantis, he added, “I get along with Ron very well.”

He also took responsibility for the governor's 2018 election, saying, “If I didn’t endorse him, he wouldn’t have won."

Neither Trump nor DeSantis have announced a presidential campaign, though former president has hinted at it.

Speaking at a rally in Arizona Friday, according to the Daily Mail, Trump told those in the audience, “I ran twice, I won twice, and did much better the second time than I did the first, getting millions. more votes in 2020 than we got in 2016. And likewise, getting more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country by far.”

He added, “And now, we may have to do it again,' he continued. 'I mean, look at, look at what has happened to our country in less than two years. Our country is like a different — it's like a different place. It's so sad to see.”