Acutally, Trump hurt DeSantis and Republicans nationwide in 2018 when the widely predicted Red Wave flopped despite peace and prosperity due to Trumps Jerk Personality bringing out millions of voters to vote against Republican candidates across the board.
DeSantis barely won against a black, radical self avowed anti police socialist in a booming economy in normally conservative Florida. Why? Because of his close association with Trump. Thats why. As was the case in normally conservative Georgia where Stacy Abrams also nearly won the governorship. Add to that with the Dims picking up over 40 seats in the House and Senate in conservative states like Texas, Arizona,Nebraska and Nevada, the Red Wave was a big fail for Republicans.
People will often vote against a candidate by voting for his opponent. Trump brings out millions of anti Republican voters. We saw that in 2018,20, and 22 when the following predicted Red Waves fell flat.
I think one of the things that lost the down-ticket seats for the GOP was actually Trump’s last-minute endorsement of candidates who weren’t doing very well but were, in his opinion, loyal to him. A lot of people might have voted for the original leader of the pack, but they simply didn’t like the people Trump endorsed and of course some of them didn’t like him but were going to vote for him anyway and then probably didn’t.
Personally, I think Trump was cheated but he responded to it the wrong way and made it seem all about him. He should have started lawsuit after lawsuit, and toured the entire country urging fair election procedures. But of course by then he had given up his Presidency to Fauci and Pence, and I think that was also a factor.
De Santis has been working like crazy here in Florida to clean up our election procedures...remember Florida in the Bush elections, when boxes of ballots were found floating in the bay and in the vehicle trunks of Dem “election supervisors?” But he did the hard stuff, he fired bad people and appointed good people (one of the bad people went to jail), and got new laws passed.
And the secret to his success is that he can actually work with other people on laws, projects, etc. Trump never could because it was all about him and he regarded a competent ally as a rival so he got rid of them. Not a good strategy.
The public is being manipulated by the media liars. You will never have a candidate so perfect the media liars can't turn him into a person that a large portion of the population will hate.
They even made people hate Reagan, and you don't get any more polished or charismatic than him.
There was never a red wave. That was a media lie to get people like you buying into the notion it was Trumps fault.
GOPe engineered BS red wave.
This person with zero personality backed by Jeb Bush ain’t going to get a red wave.
Please clap.