DeSantis Teases Potential 2028 Presidential Bid in Hannity Podcast Interview

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signaled he is not ruling out a 2028 presidential run, responding “We’ll see” when asked directly during an interview on Sean Hannity’s podcast “Hang Out with Sean Hannity,” released March 24, 2026.

DeSantis, term-limited and set to leave office in January 2027, claimed he would have swept the 2024 GOP primary if President Donald Trump had not run. “In 2024, like in Iowa, the people that voted for Trump — if he wasn’t running, I would’ve gotten like 90 percent of those people,” DeSantis said. “They were conservative voters, right? They didn’t want the non-conservative. They wanted me. The timing didn’t work out, obviously, for that.”

DeSantis finished second in the 2024 Iowa caucuses, trailing Trump by about 30 points before suspending his campaign. The comments mark his most open discussion of future White House ambitions since exiting the race.

Early 2028 GOP primary polling shows Vice President JD Vance as the clear frontrunner. The RealClearPolling average from January through mid-March 2026 has Vance at 45%, followed by Donald Trump Jr. at 16%, Secretary of State Marco Rubio at 12%, and DeSantis at 7%. Recent surveys, including Echelon Insights (March 12-16) and Noble Predictive Insights (March 17), place Vance between 36% and 40%, with DeSantis polling between 5% and 9%. Other potential candidates mentioned in polls include Nikki Haley, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Vivek Ramaswamy.