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Lloyd Green

Ron DeSantis is flaming out – and Trump is on course for a Republican coronation

Ron DeSantis with Donald Trump at a Covid event in Florida in July 2020. Don’t expect DeSantis to regain traction any time soon.
Ron DeSantis with Donald Trump at a Covid event in Florida in July 2020. ‘Don’t expect DeSantis to regain traction any time soon.’ Photograph: Tom Brenner/Reuters

The Ron DeSantis boomlet is done. He consistently trails Donald Trump by double-digits. A Wall Street Journal poll out Friday pegs Florida’s governor in severe retrograde, slipping 27 points since December. DeSantis mistakenly conflates his campaign’s bulging war chest with adulation. Wrong!

He forgot that working-class Americans dominate the Republican party and that mien matters. Voting to gut social security comes with fatal backlash, and eating pudding with your fingers is gross. Said differently, largesse from the party’s donor base coupled with little else is a losing recipe.

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