He is just no good.
With friends like this, who needs the DNC ?
He’s been a great governor, but now he’s wildly overplaying his hand. He’s responding to Trump’s low-road tactics (the degree and frequency of which I’m not really fond of) by going even lower.
Trump is the candidate, unless the Deep State manages to succeed in their bullshit against him and throw him in prison and keep him off the ballot, or, as one their own acolytes said, “put a bullet in him”.
RDS’s only rational play was to take the high road, wait it out, and play the cards that get dealt to him. He didn’t do that, and is paying a very high political price for it. He will now in all likelihood never be the candidate in 2024, under any scenario.