“so what the heck happened to him?”
The “experts” told him that Donald Trump would be in jail and that DeSantis would be the savior candidate.
The problem is that those “experts” badly misread Republican rank and file voters.
For most Republican voters today there are only two categories of politicians—those who support President Trump in his hour of need—and those who are stabbing him in the back.
That meant that this would not be a “normal” primary/caucus season. Emotions were going to run high and routine policy debates were going to become irrelevant.
The “experts” have no idea how to cope with that kind of political environment.
The “experts” told him that Donald Trump would be in jail and that DeSantis would be the savior candidate.“
I don’t think so, he did not conduct his campaign like he thought that. He could have been the perfect revenge candidate but he started sounding like Pelosi complete with MSM talking points and sabotaged his chances of taking on that role.