Analysis: The Florida governor is enjoying the benefit of being the challenger — but can he be more than that?
Now DeSantis sits in an enviable position for 2024. He generally trails Trump in polling for the nomination, but as the clear second-place contender, not simply as a member of the trailing pack. In other words, he’s what there wasn’t in 2016: someone who could serve as the locus of anti-Trump support. That’s in part because the Republican establishment sees him as acceptable, with Jeb Bush attending his second inauguration as governor .
That we’re so far from the nominating contest itself is a reminder that the fight hasn’t really started. Trump’s approach to politics is centered on tearing down every obstacle in his way, and he’s begun to work on DeSantis. On Truth Social, functionally a megaphone from Trump to his base, he’s
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