Former President Donald Trump praised Florida Governor Ron DeSantis this week during a fundraiser that the governor held to help Trump win re-election this fall.

The Associated Press reported that DeSantis and his allies met in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, this week over a fancy dinner where the governor pressed them over the importance of helping Trump.

The governor and dozens of allies then spent Thursday morning fundraising for Trump, bringing in more than $3 million for the super political action committee Right for America, the report said. Trump called into the meeting to thank everyone for their efforts and then praised the governor: “Ron, I love that you’re back.”

A top Trump ally told the publication that Trump World was “thrilled by the support we are receiving from Governor DeSantis.”

The news comes as new polling this month found that Republican voters who know who they want to be Trump’s vice presidential running mate choose DeSantis over other candidates.

The latest I&I/TIPP Poll indicated that 15% choose DeSantis as their first choice for VP, while 14% choose him as their second choice for VP.

The combined 29% that DeSantis had in the poll is more than double the support that the next highest candidates had, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who had a combined 12%, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott, also at 12%.

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Earlier this month, Trump and DeSantis met in Miami for a private meeting that was set up by real estate broker Steve Witkoff.

“I am very happy to have the full and enthusiastic support of Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida,” Trump posted on social media. “We had a great meeting.”

“The conversation mostly concerned how we would work closely together to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” he continued. “Also discussed was the future of Florida, which is FANTASTIC! I greatly appreciate Ron’s support in taking back our Country from the Worst President in the History of the United States. November 5th is a BIG DAY!!!”

The New York Times reported that the three men “met alone in a private room at Shell Bay,” a development and golf club that Witkoff owns.

CNN’s top data reporter highlighted some polling trends on Friday that could spell trouble for President Joe Biden heading into the fall’s rematch against former President Donald Trump.

Senior data analyst Harry Enten told Kate Bolduan that Trump’s rally in the Bronx should be worrying for Biden even though Biden handily won the district in 2020 and is not in serious danger of losing it in 2024.

“You see Obama 94%, Obama 96%, Clinton 92%, Biden won it, but by only 69 points,” Enten said, noting that even though Biden’s margin was large, it was still 20+ points lower than past Democratic presidents.

Specifically, he warned that non-white voters were far more likely to be pro-Trump now than they ever were in recent elections, making the coalition that Biden needs to win harder to put together.

“This is a sign of the Hispanic movement that we saw last cycle, right, where we saw, although Hispanics still favored the Democratic candidate in Joe Biden, they were less likely to favor him than they did Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama both times, and it’s not just there that happened,” he said. “We saw it in Hispanic precincts and counties across the country from southeast Florida, southern Texas, even in the Los Angeles area.”

“Look at the trend that we’re seeing right now in the polling, right? So if you look back at Hispanic voters at this point in the 2020 cycle, Joe Biden had a 25-point lead,” he continued. “Look at where that lead is today. It’s just seven points. Donald Trump right now at 44%, if that held, would be the best performance for a Republican candidate among Hispanic voters since George W. Bush back in 2004.”

He said that the best chance Biden has to win is to target white voters in the Great Lake battleground states.

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CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten warns that polling shows that Joe Biden is in big trouble. pic.twitter.com/vCryPWmTzF

— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) May 25, 2024