Eric Trump’s wife, now a Fox News contributor, said it would be “nicer” for DeSantis to wait until 2028, while seemingly conceding that, as The Post reported on its front page on Nov. 9, Gov. Florida is the GOP’s ‘DeFuture’. . “I think Ron DeSantis is very smart,” Lara Trump told Sky News Australia on Sunday. “Look, he’s a young guy. There will be many opportunities for him in the future … to run for president,” he added of the 44-year-old governor, who was re-elected to a second four-year term as leader of the Sunshine State. . “I think Ron DeSantis is very smart … he’s a young guy,” Lara Trump said of DeSantis, whom The Post recently dubbed “DeFuture.” damn it “And I think he’s a smart enough guy to know that it would be great to have the full support of this party, the America First movement, MAGA — whatever you want to call it — fully behind him in 2028 than probably, you know, breaking it in 2024,” Lara Trump continued. Besides giving 76-year-old Donald Trump an easier path, it would prevent the former president from having to resort to his usual vicious tactics, he suggested. “I can tell you that the qualifiers are very messy and very raw. We’ve been through this before,” Lara Trump said, days after her father-in-law publicly lost his temper with his potential challenger. Lara Trump said it would be “nicer” for the “very smart,” “young” Republican front-runner to wait until 2028 to avoid a “very messy and very raw” showdown with her father-in-law. Sky News Australia, Laura Trump added there will be plenty of opportunities for DeSantis “in the future … to run for president.” Getty Images “So wouldn’t that be nicer [DeSantis] — and I think he knows this — to wait until 2028?” he said. Lara Trump also suggested that without Desandes in the contest, her father-in-law would likely have an easy run, laughing off suggestions that he was losing support from Republicans who blamed him for his disastrous midterm results. He insisted he is no different from party bigwigs who initially opposed Trump in 2016 before rallying behind him once it became clear he would be the nominee. “They know he has what it takes not only to win the White House, but to do incredible things for this country,” he said. Lara Trump predicted the Republican Party would “absolutely” get behind her father-in-law if he runs again. Getty Images “Well, yes, absolutely, I think the party would be behind it, and I think they know that the American people, by and large, are behind it,” he suggested. While giving her predictions, Lara Trump also teased her father-in-law’s expected announcement at an event at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday that he will run in 2024. “I hope it will be a very historic event if he does decide to run again and that’s the announcement we hear on Tuesday,” he said.