"Get with the program. Why aren’t you backing DeSantis?"

Indeed, despite the audience cheers, many of those attending the conference voiced skepticism about a third Trump run.

“I don’t know. The jury’s still out with me,” said Jonathan Goodwin, a minister who works as a Faith and Freedom organizer in South Carolina. “I like him, but I think he shot himself in the foot too many times”…

Illinois conservative Pam Roehl, who arrived at the conference Friday wearing a red Trump baseball cap and “Trump 2020” necklace, said she still supports the former president, but increasingly finds herself in the minority among friends who have moved on, discarding their bumper stickers and embracing DeSantis.

“They’re like kind of: ’Get with the program. Why aren’t you backing DeSantis?’” she said.