DeSantis Is In
I guess the news outlets had to make a big deal of it, but it really isn’t. We’ve all known, for a long time, that Ron DeSantis was almost certain to launch a presidential campaign for next year. So...yawn...
He almost certainly will be Donald Trump’s biggest challenger, but we knew that, too. We know that Trump will attack DeSantis viciously because that is the kind of man Donald Trump is. What we don’t know, and what only time will tell, is how effective these attacks will be, how DeSantis will handle them, and how he will manage his campaign. We’ll have to wait for the answers to those questions, last night didn’t tell us.
Polls right now mean nothing. According to polls, Trump is way ahead, but polls don’t vote, and the first Republican primary is eight months away. DeSantis has never run a national campaign before. Can he do it successfully? Will he crack under the pressure? Is it possible that Trump and DeSantis will so destroy each other and sicken voters that another candidate could slip in and steal the nomination?
Guess what? Only time will give us the answers to those questions.