
Ron DeSantis has reason to celebrate as Donald Trump makes an overt pitch to his party’s base his first item on the 2023 agenda.
The Florida governor, who has not yet announced a 2024 campaign, was leading the former president in a straw poll of the North Carolina Faith and Freedom Coalition released on Wednesday; the poll is one of the reliablie bellwethers for tracking the support of white evangelicals active in Republican Party presidential primaries.