While Byron Donalds hasn’t received the backing of Gov. Ron DeSantis in his quest to succeed him as Governor of Florida next year, the U.S. House member from Naples has no problem showering the love on the state’s chief executive.

“We have the best Governor in America right now,” Donalds said Saturday during a campaign appearance in Tampa. “I don’t play political games. He’s the best. We have to build on what he has done and take our state to a whole ‘nother level.”

Donalds, the Trump-endorsed early frontrunner for the Republican nomination for Governor next year, got deep into policy prescriptions while addressing a crowd of at least 150 people who gathered at La Teresita, a Cuban eatery in the city’s Hispanic district.

The candidate spent nearly half of his hour-long visit answeri

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