In Milwaukee, Ron DeSantis was one of the crowd
On Wednesday night in Milwaukee, Ron DeSantis descended slowly from a leader of the pack to just one of a group of candidates — one shoehorned-in stump speech excerpt at a time.
The Florida Governor, second in most polling to the absent Donald Trump, found himself largely treated as just another candidate during the Fox News broadcast, an identity he seemed to embrace with a low-key approach short on confrontation and long on familiar phrasing.
Both his Super PAC and his campaign produced strategy memos that suggested an aggressive game plan. In the end, the planning stopped once the back and forth started, with DeSantis often in the background as other candidates parried attacks and rebutta...
