Not sure how you've come up with that. Trump had 46.9% of the total votes in 2020. He only gained 0.4% from 2016. Of course, we'll never know the true number because of the fraud we all know took place in 2020. What we do know is that DeSantis had 59.4% of the total votes in 2022 which was a hefty gain of 9.8% from 2018.
I'm assuming you're not comparing the raw vote counts between a federal election to a state one. I think an important difference is that Trump never won the popular vote, and he was unlikely ever to do so. This is basically a 50/50 voter base, and Democrats are better at controlling their hive-minded minions than Republicans are at persuading their herd of individualism-loving cats.
Trump did extremely well against Hillary, all things considered. We'll never know the true count then either, since it would unlikely that fraud wasn't attempted, but the Democrats were so sure that Hillary would win with ease that they weren't ready to cheat enough. At this point, it will take a miracle for anyone but a leftist to win.
Nominee Donald Trump
Party Republican
Home state Florida
Electoral vote 29
Popular vote 5,668,731
Percentage 51.22%
2022 Florida gubernatorial election
Nominee Ron DeSantis
Popular vote 4,614,210
Percentage 59.4%
Votes Cast:
Presidential Race 2020: 10,965,776
Gubernatorial Race 2022: 7,720,523
There were 3,245,253 more votes cast in the presidential.
I agree with you that there was very noticeable cheating that occurred in 2020 in large part due to Covid & mail-in ballots. Of those extra votes in there for the presidential race, it's a pretty safe bet that the excess were illegitimate votes for Biden. What the exact numbers were, are hard to determine. Could it have been as high as 8 or more percentage points? I think that is a very real possibility. Democrats obviously wanted Florida, but they were unable to steal Florida. Mainly because Florida is a pretty solid red state & they controlled the machine with their personnel, and mass mail-in ballots were not as available for them to cheat, because the mail-in ballots were not sent out in the vast quantities that they were sent out in other swing states.
There is no doubt that DeSantis was very highly thought of in Florida & beyond. I too was a big fan of his. Too bad, for him, that he showed his true allegiance was to the GOPe, and not the people, because the GOPe showed their allegiance was to the Uni-party in 2020, and not the base. As a lifelong Republican I will work hard to help the people take the Republican Party away from the existing GOPe & put it under new leadership of people who care about & love this this nation.