In a new poll, Ron DeSantis is down nearly 40 points to Donald Trump among Republican primary voters. How does he plan to attack the former President?
Presidential campaigns are usually launched in a bright burst of hope. Slick videos are posted, bus tours of the hinterlands are announced, e-mails seeking donations flow into in-boxes like the tide. The candidacy of Governor Ron DeSantis, of Florida, contains some extra, darker emotional layers: defensiveness, a bristling ideological fixity, an undercurrent of dread. In a new poll, DeSantis is down nearly forty points to Donald Trump among Republican primary voters.
The two candidates most likely to win the Presidency in 2024, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, are, respectively, eighty years old and quickly nearing that age. Both are working from public personae that were largely established by the time DeSantis finished elementary school, and their politics run thick with nostalgia. DeSantis, who is still far ahead of the rest of the G.O.P. field, is forty-four and, if he were to win, would be the second-youngest President ever elected.
If the brand is clear, the tactics are still a little fuzzy. Analysts have pointed out that the campaign needs to pursue those sectors of the Republican coalition which are ready to move on from the former President—a group that includes moderates appalled by his attacks on democracy, religious voters who find his personal behavior repugnant, party élites exhausted by his inconstancy and his narcissism.
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