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Ronny on the Run

Lessons from a day shadowing a press-averse and socially uncomfortable presidential hopeful.

On television, DeSantis can come across as savvy, reasonably well media-trained, and sometimes aggressive. But in person, Tara immediately sensed a very different potential candidate.
On television, Ron DeSantis can come across as savvy, reasonably well media-trained, and sometimes aggressive. But in person, Tara immediately sensed a very different potential candidate. Photo: Octavio Jones/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
May 22, 2023

Last week, I made a pre-election year pilgrimage to New Hampshire, where I was able to hit a lobster shack and drive around with Governor Chris Sununu for hours on end. Sununu, who is openly contemplating a run for the presidency (a “61 percent chance,” he told me), was about to reluctantly share his small, first-in-the-nation primary state with another aspirant for higher office, Ron DeSantis, who planned to swing through the next day as part of his early endorsement-gathering battle with Donald Trump.