WASHINGTON, D.C.- Former Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, now a senator in Congress, indicated during an event that he hadn't yet made a choice on who he will support in the 2024 presidential race. Instead, said Ricketts, he'd be focusing on his new job as a senator and his own reelection campaign in 2024, as he serves the final two years of former Sen. Ben Sasse's senatorial term.

However, while Sen. Ricketts may not have made a choice yet, his parents, according to disclosure documents, donated around $1 million to potential Republican candidate and current Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Last year, Marlene Ricketts, Pete Ricketts' mother, donated around $50,000 to DeSantis' state PAC, just two weeks after Sasse announced his plan to vacate his Senate seat.

Some critics of Sen. Ricketts questioned his parents' donations, pointing out that the Board of Governors that selected Sasse to be the next president of the University of Florida were mostly appointed by Gov. DeSantis. In the past, the relationship between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and the Ricketts family has been rocky, as Pete Ricketts had previously asked the former president to stay out of the Nebraska gubernatorial election.

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