I like what I see from DeSantis so far but there are two big reservations.
Firstly, we can’t really be sure how he would be on foreign policy. His statements against pouring ever more of our money down the rat hole of Ukraine and his statements against the WEF are encouraging signs but.....he also supported the Maidan coup when he was in Congress. We need to see him come out more clearly against the deep state and its perpetual wars and the bad trade deals plus surrender of national sovereignty by the globalists.
Secondly, he has not yet earned the loyalty of the Midwestern working class like Trump has. Trump has made it very clear he’s for energy independence, getting rid of bad trade deals, placing tariffs on Chinese goods, in general implementing fair trade rather than pure free trade, and in bringing back manufacturing. DeSantis has not shown them yet that he would do all of the above. Trump had been saying similar things since the early 90s - and people knew it. They knew he really believed in what he said and wasn’t just pandering to them because he thought it would be convenient now.
Trump has set a really high bar for candidates. If Trump had never arrived on the scene there would be quite a few very qualified candidates in the upcoming election of 24. Kinda like when we picked Bush because he was a good governor.