‘A Crazy Old Man Fighting With Himself’: Can Trump Do to DeSantis What He Did to Bush?
To become president, Donald Trump had to vanquish a Florida governor. To become president again, he might have to do it once more.
The most important story in politics in the coming weeks and months is the potential resorting of the Republican Party in the aftermath of a midterms in which the GOP was widely expected to win big and ended up winning hardly at all. Within this most important story, though, is a most captivating likely mano-a-mano matchup. Trump is going to have to try to do to current Florida governor Ron DeSantis in 2022, ’23 and into ’24 what he did to former Florida governor Jeb Bush in 2015 and ’16.
Here, though, in the first few days of his third real run for the White Hou...
