DeSantis and his media team might be on to something by refusing to speak to the corporate media at all.
It’s a tough calculus though if you don’t have the name recognition that DeSantis has. She had to know that Newsweek would twist her words (which they did), but she also needs to get some fraction of the votes of the independent, low-information voters, and name recognition is huge with that segment of the electorate.
My guess is that she’s toast this cycle, but it’s a long game, and there will be other races that will benefit from the work done on this race.
Keep an eye on what Richard Baris has to say aka @peoples_punit on this. Find him on Twitter, Gettr for his podcast etc.
His research on rape/incest and it's rarity in surveys is running against the flow of the dominant media etc. Witmer is reviled by many here in MI, yet IMHO Tutor's stance will turn off the over-educated suburbanites to loosely paraphrase Baris.
I don't think this is a done deal. One of my tea party contacts who is well known really likes the Lt Gov., That carries a lot of weight for me.
Again Baris is the GOAT, if you are not listening to his podcast you are missing the cutting edge stuff...