DeSantis said he wasn't running in 2024, he wants another term as Governor.
That election will be interesting. He didn't win by very much over an opponent that was actively being investigated for ethics violations during the campaign.
Since then he has become a pretty polarizing figure in FL. Conservatives tend to love him, Liberals tend to hate him with an intensity approaching Trump, and moderates never mention state politics. The people that favor a more mandate focused Covid response tend to think he's killed all the Grandma's and crippled our healthcare system. And they feel that very strongly.
I'm told Dem Ag Commissioner Nikki Fried is talking about running for Gov, and she's a kinda attractive white woman, which is good optics. She was moderately moderate in 2018, but seems to have swung harder left and more woke since then. That may play well in JAX and south FL without scaring the middle of the state too much.
We'll see, but DeSantis has more baggage then folks outside of FL tend to think.