I think the GOPe is very interested in DeSAntis and he is increasingly interested in them. They see him as the alternative they can use to block Trump, and he thinks it will be to his advantage to have the party establishment on his side. This is a miscalculation.
If Rove and the other Bush crowd are supporting DS and touting his “creds” then I start getting wary. I watched Bush cozy up to the Obamas and stay silent for eight years as Obama put this nation on the road to “woke” destruction. He cheerfully joined the Clintons at events and on projects as if the Clinton’s treatment of him never happened.
Bush then joined the left and other GOP “principled” establishment politicians in either cheering-on or ignoring the witch hunt against Trump.
If that wing of the GOP is going all in on DeSantis then I would have to rethink any support of him. Thus far, I’ve remained in the Trump camp. If we return to the “business as usual” republicans then what difference will we have from what we have now? Dem or GOPe in the White House—it’s all about the same.