TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Ron DeSantis will be sworn in Tuesday to his second term as Florida’s 46th governor, and it is already being seen as the start of his audition for the presidency.
DeSantis has positioned himself on the national stage as a likely front-runner for the Republican nomination for president in 2024, but that requires him to launch a campaign for a new job while barely into the four-year term for his current one. The potential political prospects have many watching how he will use his newfound stature.
Will he continue to lean into the culture wars agenda that has made him a hero on the right as he has ridden political trends often first identified by former President Donald J. Trump, or will he broaden his message and moderate what has been a combative posture by reviving some of the unifying themes of his first inauguration in 2019?
