Most definitely. Neither Trump or DeSantis have a good chance at winning especially against RFK. WI, AZ and GA are needed. The Lake case may change things, we will see. WI is lost and GA is anti Trump.
DeSantis will be effectively painted as too conservative by misconstruing 6wk abortion, don’t say gay, book banning, etc. And Trump is polarizing because of media. They defined Trump 2016, nothing new to add or surprise voters. Some voters will return to Trump because of economics, over riding there emotional dislike of him.
Just curious, has the rep party ever been united or is this a new phenomenon? I witnessed the Trump/Cruz nonsense but don’t recall the same animus after Romney or McCain won the primary. Granted, social media wasn’t a factor then. I recall not liking Romney because he played coy while the top contenders took each other out and he was the last man standing. I thought that was shady and cowardly. And of course, that is exactly what he was at his core (proven by his debates with Obama).
Republicans generally aren’t as united (at least where it counts) as Dems. Its always faction vs faction, establishment vs rank and file, conservative GOP vs lib GOPe etc etc. Of course this isn’t helped by Trump being far more interested in attacking DeSantis rather than the Dems when he’s the supposed frontrunner. If you don’t believe me go on to his truth social its mostly attacks on DeSantis and ranting about his personal issues with actual statements of principles and bringing the fight to Dems a distant third.