Tonight, a look at the new toast of Silicon Valley—Ron DeSantis.

It’s no surprise that Corporate America is not praying for a second Trump administration. But DeSantis is using his Florida reelection run to consolidate his financial support from the tech industry, money that DeSantis could likely roll over to a presidential run in just a few months’ time.

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Silicon Valley is already listening to these entreaties and beginning to place bets, and DeSantis unmistakably has the mojo. While most NorCal leaders are liberal, of course, there still exists a sizable pot of somewhat disrespected conservative money. It may not rival what’s available in Florida, say, or Texas, but it is growing in size and influence. The heavy hitters on the scene are also no longer aristocrats like San Francisco socialite Dede Wilsey, but shrewd tech billionaires who are reshaping California politics, sometimes from Florida and Texas. And almost all of the heavy-hitters in tech worth paying attention to are singing DeSantis’s praises...