Donald Trump stands behind Ron DeSantis as he speaks at a rally

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It remains to be viewed whether or not Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) will problem former President Donald Trump in 2024. But if ebook sales are any indication of popularity, the Florida governor has a strong base of improve for future political ambitions.

DeSantis’s memoir, The Braveness to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Survival, made it to the highest of the New York Times bestsellers checklist this week. Many have considered the e book as a mushy launch for a DeSantis 2024 campaign. If that’s the case, the gross sales bode well: in its first week, Braveness to Be Free outpaced books from Trump, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton at this stage of their political careers.

Insider acquired NPD BookScan’s retail numbers, and so they mentioned that The Braveness to be Free is as much as ninety four,300 copies bought for the reason that being published just over every week ago. By using comparability, Trump simplest bought 27,687 copies of his 2015 campaign e book, Crippled The us, all the way through its first week.

The numbers put DeSantis ahead of Clinton as smartly because BookScan says her 2014 memoir Exhausting Selections got here in at 86,200 copies sold in its first week. For former President Obama, The Audacity of Hope sold 67,500 copies in its first week as he was mounting his 2008 campaign for office.

Recent polls show Trump keeping his hang over the Republican Birthday Celebration as he prepares his 2024 marketing campaign. Still, DeSantis has been on a big publicity tour as of late to advertise his ebook, and he’s usually considered most difficult rival Trump may just face in a Republican main.

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