Chances of Ron DeSantis making a comeback to win the 2024 nomination from Donald Trump are dwindling as he restarts his campaign in Iowa

The chances of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis making a comeback to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination are dwindling, experts say.

Now DeSantis’ best shot at getting the nomination is to win in Iowa – and I hope the momentum can carry him to the finish line.

He’s already trying to do that by engaging in more traditional politics as he gave a speech Friday night — which has won him the support of two state representatives.

DeSantis, 44, continues to trail former President Donald Trump in most national polls, which Trump has won by more than 30 points, despite recent indictments that have brought him criminal charges for keeping secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

The Republican governor has suffered bad press in recent weeks for overspending $20 million and firing 38 campaign workers.

The governor of Florida apparently hopes to repeat the strategy of former Senator John McCain in 2008 – who successfully beat former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani for the Republican nomination despite his initial lead in the polls.

In that case, Giuliani said he skipped the early electoral states of Iowa and New Hampshire to instead focus on campaigning in Florida, a swing state.

Because of those efforts, Giuliani soon found himself slipping in the Iowa primary as McCain rocketed ahead.

The former Arizona senator went on to win the New Hampshire primary, gaining a lead in the national polling average that he maintained through the Republican National Convention.

DeSantis’ campaign now hopes that a strong run in Iowa will do the same for him and catapult him into the polls.

Like McCain, DeSantis has seen its unfavorable rating rise in the spring and summer.

It’s up from 35.6 percent at the beginning of the year to 45.5 percent now, according to Politics.

Meanwhile, Trump’s preference score has remained relatively constant, data from FiveThirtyEight showed.

In an effort to change his rating, DeSantis has hit the ground running in Iowa — he’s met with in-person voters and laid out what he’d do if elected.

Speaking Friday night, DeSantis said he wants to stop the federal government’s “arming” and vowed to “snatch politics out of the military,” the Des Moines Registry reported.

He also took the opportunity to punch Vice President Kamala Harris, who criticized DeSantis’ new education program, which teaches that slaves develop skills.

“We’ve beaten the leftist agenda in Florida, so she thinks she can come and lie about what we’re doing,” DeSantis told the crowd of Republican voters.

‘I don’t budge an inch. We’re going to fight back against these people and stop letting them take over our schools.”

That speech earned him a standing ovation and the endorsement of Republican state representatives Bill Gustoff and Dan Gehlbach.

The Lincoln dinner showed that the Republicans have a deep bank of great candidates for president in 2024 compared to the trainwreck offered by the Democrats. Iowans will have a tough choice about caucusing,” Gustoff said in a statement.

“But Governor DeSantis knocked it out of the park in his short speech full of a long list of plans to get the country back on track, complete with a track record to show why he’s the one to pull it off.”

Gehlbach also said, “Ron DeSantis had a great, energetic speech last night that offered a positive vision for the future.

“He is ready to start on day one, with specific plans for our country.”

He added that the Florida governor “took the time to talk to everyone in the room after his speech at the GOP dinner in Iowa, far more than any other candidate I saw.”

Before the speech, Florida’s governor made his way across the state in a bus – sponsored by his related PAC, ‘Never Back Down’ – taking about President Joe Biden and his family.

“If I’m president, we won’t allow cocaine in the White House,” he proclaimed as he took the stage Thursday night at the Revelton Distilling Co. in Oscelola.

He made the same proclamation Friday at Smokey Row Coffee in Oskaloosa.

While there was no evidence that the cocaine found near the Situation Room belonged to Biden’s troubled son Hunter, a recovering crack addict, DeSantis linked it to the First Son by immediately referring to his own children.

“I have to say, I have a 6-, a 5-, and a 3-year-old chasing my wife and I around the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee and so I can’t necessarily promise there won’t be any problems in the White House with them,’ he said. “But that’s like marking on the wall. I have the magic eraser. We can take care of that.’

On Thursday night, DeSantis spoke again about the importance of a “single standard of justice in this country.”

“You know, if Hunter Biden was a Republican, he probably would have been in jail three years ago and now he’s trying to get a lover’s plea. But this judge actually opposed that, which I was amazed at,” he said, referring to Wednesday’s Delaware federal court hearing that suspended the first son’s plea deal.

But DeSantis has so far refused to talk about Trump’s legal troubles.

When asked to respond to special counsel Jack Smith filing a replacement charge against Trump and an additional Trump aide alleging that the ex-president had asked an aide to remove surveillance footage to erase evidence that could be used in investigating classified documents, DeSantis said it was “in the past.”

“Well, we’ve — we got engaged when, when we needed to,” DeSantis told DailyMail.com, when pressed for why he wouldn’t touch Trump, who he’ll have to beat in the GOP primaries if he’s president. want to be.