“because it will put former President Trump “ahead in the polling” in 2024’s presidential race.”
This clearly was NOT an attack on DeSantis (the accuser eventually admits he is lying) but rather an attack on Trump supporters (who in this case are so crazy that they would lie about a conservative Republican governor to benefit their preferred candidate)
It is secondarily an attack on DeSantis because it plants the seed for the future in the minds of the mush-brain populace that, "Hmm...Somewhere I remember back in 2022 DeSantis being accused of being a sex offender.."
It’s a twofer people. You besmirch Desantis by calling him a gay rapist and then end it by blaming the false accusation on a Trump supporter.