When McCain ran for President he trashed the Republican competition and the media was his megaphone, backing him to the hilt.
Heck, when he was asked who his constituency was - he openly replied - “The Press and the Media”
That was right up until he somehow won the Republican nomination against Barak Obama.
Once he had fulfilled his part to squeeze out the more electable Republicans and had become competition to Obama he was brutally attacked and torn apart by the press that had always been his ally and best buddies. DeSantis will be the media darling in the primaries with the media egging him on rewarding him for destroying Trump as a viable winner in 2024 if Trump eventually wins the nomination - which he almost certainly will. A severely wounded Trump will have a much harder time winning the Presidency
If DeSantis does succeed in beating Trump as nominee the media will flip on him and he will be brutally taken down by the media in the general election just like McCain was. DeSantis is not yet ready for that kind of attack.
Like they did with McCain, the Media will sit on the oppo research on DeSantis during the primaries and then hit DeSantis with an unrelenting barrage of real and phony mud slinging to carry Biden over the finish line.
Biden will win and complete the take over of the country , Trump will be timed out out of Presidential politics and DeSantis will be forever destroyed as a national candidate because the MAGA wing of the Republicans will blame DeSantis for the loss in 2024.
Trump is the most vetted and investigated person in American history and they have uncovered nothing on him, which is amazing. His negatives have been driven as far South as possible with the lies of the fake media.
Now those lies are being exposed and even some of the never Trumpers are figuring out that Trump has been slandered and they have been had by phony, made up reporting on manufactured conspiracies. People are looking at Trump in a more positive light .
Not going to happen.
—> Desantis is setting himself up to be the John McCain of 2024.
Yes.
Also seems to be following the trajectory of Gov. Scott Walker.