[Drew68]

You have a poor read on the sentiment of the country if you think that the political center (i.e. Independents and moderate Democrats) are going to go for a smarmy conservative like DeSantis over a populist like Trump. Trump reaches out to demographics that DeSantis could never connect with, even if he tried, which he doesn’t.

No, I've resigned myself to the fact that it is very unlikely that DeSantis will be the GOP nominee.

Too many in this country would rather lose with a bloviating liberal circus clown than win with an actual accomplished conservative.

It is what it is.

[mbrfl]

So you think conservative-branded DeSantis would do better among the general population than he’s doing with Republicans? Think about what you’re saying. It makes no sense. The Republican party leans more right than the population at large. If the GOP can’t stand DeSantis’s smarmy moralizing then Independents and Moderate Democrats certainly won’t.