TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — With an open presidential primary coming in 2028, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is launching an offensive to win back supporters of the Republican leader whom he dared to challenge in the last election. And he’s doing so by latching onto President Donald Trump’s most prominent issue — immigration.

In a sign DeSantis was not proving a threat to Trump, the Republican Party of Florida voted in September 2023 not to require participants in the state's 2024 presidential primary to pledge to support the eventual nominee, which ensured Trump would not have to pledge support to DeSantis when the two were locked in a bitter campaign.

Governor Ron DeSantis weighed in on the hotbed political issues of the morning at the 2025 Florida State State Fair:

Hurricanes and disease have already taken a tremendous toll on those fragrant trees, not to mention development demand for the land.

When President Donald Trump’s administration announced it would impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, the world reacted. Florida-based businesses, from those that import or export goods at Port Tampa Bay to builders in need of construction materials for ongoing real estate projects,

Donald Trump described Pam Bondi in five words after she was sworn in as attorney general yesterday and also gave a comment on her husband John Wakefield saying he "hates being around him."

Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday as attorney general, taking charge of the Justice Department as it braces for upheaval with President Donald Trump aiming to exert his will over an agency that has long provoked his ire.

About 200 people gathered at the State House in Concord holding signs that read “Arrest Musk,” “Resist,” and “Trump is a threat to our national security.”