DeSantis, what GOP missed in 'huge underperformance' for election. Take on "big interest".

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"We assumed we were going to end up with like 245 House members, we're at 222 it looks like, which is a huge underperformance," DeSantis said. "The question is, you know, why did that happen?"

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"Usually those voters are going to want to vote for people that are offering an alternative, and yet some of those voters throughout the country, not in Florida, but throughout the country, even though they disapproved of Biden, even though they disapproved of the direction of the country, they still didn't want to vote, you know, for some of our candidates," DeSantis said.

"I don’t think it’s a question of necessarily being divided as a party, I think it’s like, OK, how do you run and win majorities?" he continued.

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"I think what we’ve done in Florida is we’ve shown that we’ve exercised leadership, we’ve not kowtowed, we’ve been willing to take on big interests… but producing results, and then that ends up attracting more people to want to be on your team," DeSantis said. "That was not something that was happening throughout the rest of the country."

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While the governor has kept silent on his future ambitions, DeSantis fueled speculation that he intends to run for president with the upcoming release of an autobiography titled, "The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival."

The publishers said that the book "will center on critical issues that brought [DeSantis] to the center of the debate over the future of our country. He shares his thinking from when he was fighting back against COVID mandates and restrictions, critical race theory, woke corporations" and what they describe as "the partisan legacy media." They added that the memoir will chronicle what they call "his bold, substantial policy achievements."

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