“Donald Trump in recent months has been telling confidants that he may launch his 2024 presidential campaign early — and that he’s considering launching it in Florida to stick it to Gov. Ron DeSantis,” Rolling Stone reports.

“Trump has kicked around staging a large, flashy launch rally (with fireworks, of course) that would announce his White House bid before the 2022 midterm elections.”

“People who’ve spoken to Trump say that one reason he’s eying the Sunshine State is to assert his dominance over an ascendant DeSantis, who — if they both run in 2024 — would likely be the former president’s most formidable competitor in a primary fight for the GOP nomination. One of the sources said Trump’s motivation is to show the governor ‘who the boss is’ in the modern-day GOP.”

For the first time, the PredictIt political futures market gives Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis the same odds of winning the Republican presidential nomination.

“The day that Trump makes it clear he’s going to run — it would be a mountain to climb to beat him … If it’s a policy election, he’s in good shape. It’s his primary to lose.”

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by the Washington Post.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) would not commit to backing President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, saying instead that “we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it,” CNN reports.

Said Ocasio-Cortez: “We should endorse when we get to it, but I believe that the President’s been doing a very good job so far, and, you know, should he run again, I think that I, you know, I think… we’ll take a look at it. But right now, we need to focus on winning a majority instead of a presidential election.”

“Gov. Ron DeSantis’s fundraising continued at a torrid pace in May, allowing the governor to put more distance between himself and his Democratic rivals,” the Tallahassee Democrat reports.

“DeSantis raised another $10.2 million, bringing the total raised for his reelection bid to $124 million.”