2026-05-01T09:00:51.014Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：史蒂夫·孔托尔诺
发布时间：2026年5月1日，美国东部时间上午5:00
佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯于4月7日在佛罗里达州迈阿密举行的德克萨斯证券交易所繁荣腰带活动期间。
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本周短短几天内，佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯将议员们召集到塔拉哈西，向他们提交了一份经过激进重划的国会选区地图，强势迫使共和党控制的州议会通过该方案，从而将中期选举的战场导向对其所在政党有利的方向。
这一幕熟悉地展现了德桑蒂斯曾用来发动文化战争、斩获保守派胜利以角逐总统职位的硬核政治影响力。如今，他正动用同样的权力为那个击碎他白宫梦想、却又可能助其重振抱负的人效力：唐纳德·特朗普总统。
过去16个月来，华盛顿以外几乎没有哪位共和党人比德桑蒂斯对特朗普更不可或缺。他积极协助联邦政府打击移民——强迫执法部门配合特朗普的移民海关执法局，启动一项连极为保守的警长都深感困扰的全州搜捕行动，还在佛罗里达沼泽地建起一座耗资不菲的拘留中心，该中心被称为“鳄鱼恶魔岛”。他设立了佛罗里达州政府效率部，效仿小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪呼吁废除学校疫苗接种要求，协助白宫修改大学向学生运动员支付报酬的规则，还安排州政府将迈阿密海滨一块黄金地块移交计划修建特朗普总统图书馆的基金会。
佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯与抵达佛罗里达州奥乔佩戴德-科利尔训练和过渡机场的特朗普总统握手，2025年7月1日。
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德桑蒂斯与特朗普的重新绑定之际，他的政治前途正笼罩着不确定性。他的州长第二任期将于明年1月结束，这为他留下两条可行之路：加入特朗普的华盛顿团队，或是为后特朗普时代的共和党布局。
两条路都需要总统的青睐——或许还需要与特朗普核心圈子里尚存的宿怨修复关系。德桑蒂斯以推动变革、行事激进的执政风格回应了这一现实，而正是这种风格助他首次登上政治明星的位置。
他最近为特朗普赢得的胜利——一份有望让共和党在今年秋季众议院选举中多拿下四个席位的新国会选区地图——可能挽救了共和党摇摇欲坠的中期选区重划策略。这也赢得了总统阵营内部一些人的赞扬，而这些人曾在2024年共和党总统初选中动员反对他。
曾多次嘲讽德桑蒂斯总统竞选活动的特朗普长期法律顾问迈克·戴维斯，在佛罗里达州议员批准新选区划分后不久在X平台上写道：“美国最优秀的州长再次出手，而且效率神速。”
“为自己的任期画上圆满句号对他的政治遗产至关重要，他也清楚这将比其他任何事情都更能影响他的未来和人们对他的看法，”曾为特朗普和德桑蒂斯筹款、在华盛顿特区和塔拉哈西都有客户的说客尼克·亚罗西说道。
德桑蒂斯的办公室未回应CNN的置评请求。白宫发言人戴维斯·英格尔表示，特朗普“赞赏德桑蒂斯州长在佛罗里达州所做的工作，以及他们为推进总统的‘美国优先’议程所保持的持续伙伴关系”。
佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯于2024年7月16日在威斯康星州密尔沃基费尔沃论坛举行的共和党全国代表大会第二天向观众挥手。
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“如果有机会，就参选2028年总统”
德桑蒂斯仍怀揣总统抱负早已不是秘密。当最近被福克斯新闻主持人肖恩·汉尼提问及是否会再次参选时，他调侃道：“拭目以待。”他已经在向未来的初选选民传递一种以其保守派政绩为核心的竞选论调。
“我认为我们将能够说，‘好吧，我们已经执政八年了，找一个比我们更有作为的人出来吧’，”他在最近接受电视主持人格雷厄姆·本辛格采访时说道。
这番言论与他在2024年共和党初选前在全国范围内传递的信息如出一辙——他坚称，如果不是特朗普参选，自己本会胜出。他向汉尼提声称，如果特朗普没有寻求连任，90%的爱荷华州党团会议参与者都会支持他。（德桑蒂斯最终以21%的得票率在爱荷华州共和党党团会议中位居第二，仅以微弱优势领先尼基·黑利。此后不久他便退出竞选并背书特朗普。）
“这些早期州的选民会告诉我，‘你知道吗，你会成为一位伟大的总统。我觉得你比（罗纳德）里根还要出色，但这次我要支持特朗普。不过下次我会投给你’，”他告诉本辛格。
德桑蒂斯2024年竞选团队的批评者——包括其团队内部人士——认为他的问题不止在于特朗普的参选，他们辩称德桑蒂斯犯下了战略失误，未能激发共和党选民的热情。两名资深共和党幕僚将其竞选称为“共和党有史以来最糟糕的总统竞选”。
佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯（左）在2024年1月10日于爱荷华州得梅因德雷克大学举行的第五场共和党总统初选辩论中发言，前美国驻联合国大使尼基·黑利（右）在一旁倾听。
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德桑蒂斯的亲信承认，他要在2028年重新成为共和党领军人物将面临重重困难。他的政治运作团队几乎不复存在，就连德桑蒂斯的铁杆支持者也不认为他2024年的捐赠者会冒险疏远副总统JD·万斯——最有可能作为特朗普的继承人参选——或是来自阳光之州的热门竞争者、国务卿马可·卢比奥。
在这种背景下，这位州长目前的战略是成为特朗普的资产，再次成为其盟友。近几个月来，他们已经打了两次高尔夫球。特朗普去年在一场联合活动中对德桑蒂斯说：“你永远是我的朋友。”
德桑蒂斯还表现出比特朗普更愿意迎合部分“让美国再次伟大”阵营优先事项的姿态。他在限制合法移民方面比特朗普走得更远，提出禁止州立大学雇佣H-1B签证持有者。他还与万斯划清界限，成为抨击科技行业的领军人物，不顾特朗普的反对推动州政府对人工智能实施限制。
一位与德桑蒂斯关系密切的人士表示，尽管万斯和卢比奥目前可能占据上风，但如果共和党人对现任政府感到不满，德桑蒂斯与特朗普保持私人关系同时在部分问题上保持距离的能力可能会派上用场。目前也尚不清楚特朗普是否会正式背书某位继任者，这为德桑蒂斯留下了运作空间。
“他在观察，”这位人士说道。“如果有机会，他会毫不犹豫地参选。”
佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯于2024年7月16日在威斯康星州密尔沃基共和党全国代表大会场外的保守派家长组织“为自由母亲”活动上发言。
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内阁职位期待
不过短期内，德桑蒂斯可能需要一份工作。随着司法部、国土安全部和劳工部的高层职位出现空缺，德桑蒂斯的名字经常被列为可能的接任者，而且他也乐于在特朗普政府中任职。多名消息人士告诉CNN，特朗普知道德桑蒂斯更希望领导国防部，但国防部长皮特·赫格斯的职位目前看起来稳固。
“我是一个乐于服务的人，”他告诉本辛格，并补充道他“永远不会排除任何可能性”。
然而，德桑蒂斯与特朗普核心圈子——包括白宫办公厅主任苏西·怀尔斯和副幕僚长詹姆斯·布莱尔——之间的紧张关系仍是任何任命的障碍。怀尔斯和布莱尔曾为德桑蒂斯工作，后来因激烈的矛盾决裂，这成为2024年共和党初选中激烈斗争的一个插曲。
鉴于这段历史，他在白宫的声誉仍然很差，一位目睹了相关对话的消息人士称，万斯曾听到特朗普助手们谈论这位州长的对话，并评论道：“哇，你们真的很恨罗恩·德桑蒂斯。”
这位人士补充道，虽然德桑蒂斯的名字可能会被其支持者和特朗普的支持者提及，但白宫内部并未提出过这一想法。
“人们不认为他是团队合作者，”这位人士补充道。
值得注意的是，据一位了解日程安排的消息人士透露，尽管收到了邀请，德桑蒂斯并未计划出席特朗普周五在佛罗里达州中部的活动。德桑蒂斯的办公室未说明他拒绝出席的原因。
“德桑蒂斯与特朗普的核心圈子之间并未和解，”一位长期为特朗普筹款的人士告诉CNN。“我不知道他之后的世界会是什么样子。”
Ron DeSantis finds second act as key Trump ally. Will his third act be a 2028 run?
2026-05-01T09:00:51.014Z / CNN
By Steve Contorno
PUBLISHED May 1, 2026, 5:00 AM ET
Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, during the Boom Belt event hosted by the Texas Stock Exchange in Miami, Florida, on April 7.
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In a matter of days this week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dragged lawmakers to Tallahassee, handed them an aggressively gerrymandered congressional map, strong-armed the Republican-controlled legislature into backing it and tilted the midterm battlefield toward his party.
It was a familiar display of the raw political power that DeSantis once used to fight culture wars and notch conservative victories as he chased the presidency. Now, he is flexing that same authority in service of the man who dimmed his White House dreams — but who could yet revive them: President Donald Trump.
Over the past 16 months, few, if any, Republicans outside Washington have proven more indispensable to Trump than DeSantis. He has enthusiastically aided the federal immigration crackdown — forcing law enforcement to cooperate with Trump’s ICE, launching a statewide dragnet that has troubled even deeply conservative sheriffs and erecting a costly detention center on Florida swampland that became known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” He created a Florida version of the Department of Government Efficiency, echoed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in pushing to end school vaccine requirements, is helping the White House rewrite the rules for how colleges pay student-athletes and arranged for the state to hand over a prime piece of Miami waterfront to a foundation planning Trump’s presidential library.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis shakes hands with President Donald Trump upon Trump’s arrival at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, on July 1, 2025.
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DeSantis’ realignment with Trump comes as uncertainty hangs over his political future. His second term as governor ends in January, leaving him two plausible paths: a job in Trump’s Washington, or positioning himself for a Republican Party after Trump.
Both require the president’s favor — and perhaps some bridge-mending with his remaining foes in Trump’s inner circle. DeSantis has responded to that reality with the same hard-changing, maximalist governing style that fueled his first rise to political stardom.
His latest win for Trump — a new congressional map that could net the GOP four more House seats this fall — potentially rescued the Republican Party’s flailing mid-decade redistricting gambit. And it has earned praise from corners of the president’s orbit that once mobilized against him when he challenged Trump in the 2024 Republican primary.
Mike Davis, a longtime Trump legal adviser who regularly mocked DeSantis’ presidential campaign, wrote on X shortly after Florida lawmakers approved the new district boundaries: “Once again, America’s best governor delivers. And fast.”
“Finishing strong is going to be important for his legacy and he knows that’s what will impact his future and how people view him more than anything else,” said Nick Iarossi, a lobbyist who has raised money for both Trump and DeSantis and has clients in Washington, DC, and Tallahassee.
DeSantis’ office did not respond to CNN’s requests for comment. White House spokesman Davis Ingle said Trump “appreciates the work Governor DeSantis is doing in the great state of Florida and the ongoing partnership they maintain to help advance the President’s America First agenda.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis waves from the stage on Day 2 of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 16, 2024.
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A 2028 run ‘if there’s a lane’
It’s not a secret that DeSantis continues to harbor presidential ambitions. “We’ll see,” he teased when recently asked by Fox host Sean Hannity if he would run again. He is already testing a pitch to future primary voters that leans heavily on his track record of conservative wins.
“I think we’ll be able to say, ‘You know what, we had eight years, and show me someone that’s been more consequential,’” he said in a recent interview with television host Graham Bensinger.
It’s a message that echoes the one he delivered across the country leading up to the 2024 GOP primary — and one he maintains would’ve been successful were it not for Trump. He asserted to Hannity that 90% of Iowa caucusgoers would’ve backed him if Trump hadn’t sought another term. (DeSantis instead came in second in the Iowa GOP caucuses with 21% of the vote, narrowly ahead of Nikki Haley. He ended his campaign shortly after and endorsed Trump.)
“I’d have people in these early states tell me, ‘You know, you’re going to be a great president. I think you’re going to be better than (Ronald) Reagan, but I’m for Trump this time. But I’ll vote for you next time,’” he told Bensinger.
Critics of DeSantis’ 2024 campaign — including from within his own operation — believed his problems went beyond just the presence of Trump, contending that he made strategic missteps and failed to energize GOP voters. A pair of veteran Republican operatives dubbed it “the worst Republican presidential campaign ever.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (left) speaks as former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley (right) looks on during the fifth Republican presidential primary debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 10, 2024.
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Those close to DeSantis acknowledge the uphill climb for him to reemerge as a leading figure in 2028. His political operation is virtually non-existent, and there’s little expectation even among DeSantis stalwarts that his 2024 donors would risk alienating Vice President JD Vance, most-likely to run as Trump’s heir, or Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a rising contender who also hails from the Sunshine State.
Against that backdrop, the governor’s strategy for now is to become an asset to Trump — and an ally once more. They have golfed twice in recent months. Trump told DeSantis last year at a joint appearance: “You’ll always be my friend.”
DeSantis has also shown more willingness than Trump to appease some of the MAGA base’s priorities. He’s gone beyond Trump’s efforts to curb legal immigration and moved to limit H-1B visa holders from state university jobs. He has also distinguished himself from Vance by emerging as a leading critic of the tech industry, pushing for state limits on artificial intelligence against Trump’s wishes.
A person close to DeSantis said while Vance and Rubio may have the upper hand for now, the governor’s ability to maintain a personal relationship with Trump while distancing himself on some issues could prove useful if Republicans grow wary of the current administration. It also remains unclear if or when Trump will formally throw his weight behind a successor, leaving DeSantis with room to operate.
“He’s watching,” the person said. “And he won’t hesitate to run if there’s lane.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a Conservative parents group “Moms for Liberty” event, on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 16, 2024.
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Cabinet hopes
In the short term, though, DeSantis may need a job. As vacancies have opened atop justice, homeland security and labor departments, DeSantis’ name has regularly surfaced as a possible replacement, and he is open to serving in the Trump administration. Multiple people told CNN that Trump is aware DeSantis’ preference would be to lead the Pentagon, though Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s job appears safe for now.
“I’m a service-oriented person,” he told Bensinger, adding he would “never rule anything out.”
However, DeSantis’ icy relationship with Trump’s inner circle, including White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair, remains a hurdle to any appointment. Wiles and Blair once worked for DeSantis before an acrimonious falling out that became a subplot of the bruising 2024 GOP primary.
Given that history, his reputation in the West Wing is still so poor that Vance once overheard a conversation about the governor between Trump aides and remarked, “Wow, you guys really hate Ron DeSantis,” a person who witnessed the exchange said.
The person added that while DeSantis’ name may get floated by supporters of both the governor and Trump, it hasn’t come from inside the White House.
“He’s not regarded as a team player,” the person added.
Notably, DeSantis is not scheduled to appear at Trump’s appearance on Friday in Central Florida, though he was invited, according to a person with knowledge of the schedule. DeSantis’ office didn’t say why he turned them down.
“There’s been no dethawing between DeSantis and Trump’s inner circle,” a longtime Trump fundraiser told CNN. “I don’t know what the world looks like for him after this.”