The San Jose Mercury News reported:
President Biden was everywhere in Silicon Valley on Monday. His motorcade crisscrossed the South Bay to begin a three-day visit to the Golden State in a sign that the 2024 campaign for the White House is in full swing — 17 months before Election Day.
What wasn’t as evident was the presence of one of Biden’s potential Republican rivals — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who quietly held fundraisers of his own Monday, including a visit to a Republican donor in Woodside, just across the freeway from Biden’s evening reception in Atherton.
Earlier in the day, DeSantis reportedly attended events at Harris Ranch in Coalinga and a breakfast roundtable in Sacramento, just weeks after he caused a stir there by sending two planeloads of Latin American asylum seekers to the California capitol to call attention to the blue state-red state divide over illegal immigration.
Biden was accompanied at times by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who told the White House nearly a year ago that he would not mount an insurgent campaign in 2024, but seems to be preparing for a run anyway.
