Ricketts, the Nebraska governor, is from the family behind the stockbroker TD Ameritrade and a former co-owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team. ‘Everyone knows what this is about: Ron and Don,’ a top Republican insider tells me, echoing others.”Īs the only Republican who polls even close to Trump, DeSantis is widely thought to be planning a presidential run of his own. Now, DeSantis’s man at UF has engineered Sasse’s hiring. Marc Caputo, a reporter, wrote: “In May, Trump said he regretted supporting Ben Sasse. Quoting “a top Republican insider”, the outlet said the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, was behind the move, which was meant as one in the eye for Trump. NBC News reported that Sasse’s move was the result of Republican rivalries.
If he resigns as a senator, the Nebraska governor – the Republican Pete Ricketts, or a likely Republican successor if Sasse resigns in January – will appoint a replacement. Sasse decried “Washington partisanship” and called Florida “the most interesting university in America right now”.Ī university president before he entered politics, at Midland in Nebraska, Sasse will in November be the sole candidate interviewed for the Florida position. The committee unanimously felt Ben Sasse is a transformational leader.” But on Thursday Rahul Patel, a member of the University of Florida board of trustees, told the Tampa Bay Times the college needed “a visionary, an innovator and big thinker who would differentiate us from others – a leader who is transformational. The senator does not have to face voters again until 2026. Like Cheney, Sasse, 50, has been thought a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination, a notional 2024 contest still dominated by Trump.
High-profile casualties include Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the House January 6 committee vice-chair who lost her primary to a Trump-backed challenger in August. Of the 10 House Republicans and seven senators who voted to convict Trump at his second impeachment trial, for inciting the January 6 Capitol attack, only two congressmen and four senators are on course to return after the midterm elections.
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