PALM BEACH, Fla. – The two presumed front-runners of the 2024 GOP primary field are headlining competing conservative political events this week as the race to the White House picks up.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking in front of 120 of the top donors in the GOP, showcased that his conservative victories in the past four years in Florida have turned the one-time general election battleground "into the nation’s leading red state."
DeSantis, who pundits widely expect to launch a White House bid later this year but who currently remains on the 2024 sidelines, kicked off a three-day donor retreat Thursday evening hosted by the politically influential, fiscally conservative group the Club for Growth at an exclusive beachfront resort in this upper crust seaside community.
Florida’s governor was the first of a handful actual and potential Republican presidential contenders to make the case to the crowd of potential financial backers.
Also speaking at the confab is former Vice President Mike Pence; former ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley; Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina; New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu; and entrepreneur, author and conservative commentator Vivek Ramaswamy.
However, former President Trump, who launched his third White House run in November and who lives a few miles south of The Breakers resort where the Club for Growth retreat is being held, was not invited.
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