No, he could have denounced the Biden regime for trying to convict and jail their (and his) leading political rival on a myriad of bogus charges. DeSantis clearly hurt himself by saying nothing, and this only days after Biden offered only a disastrous (no pun intended) "no comment" response to a "gotcha" question about the Hawaii fires.
If somehow DeSantis gets the nomination, the full fury of the Deep State will come down on him like it did on Trump, and if that doesn't happen, that will be proof that he is one of them.
“...if that doesn’t happen, that will be proof that he is one of them.”
I think we already had a pretty good idea that’s the case.
Too bad. I seriously believed that 2028 would be DeSantis’ year. He couldn’t just wait FOUR F—CKING YEARS? To be able to run this time, he had no choice but to sell his soul. I thought he had core principles re the Constitution, loyalty, conservatism but he doesn’t. If they’re “core”, you can’t chuck them in a day or week. Which he did.
Why do you expect all of these candidates to respect Trump when Trump just calls them names? If Trump truly needs help he should ask for it. And he needs a whole lotta help. Running out of bridges to burn.