He didn’t much, during the election. But as soon as it was over, he announced he wasn’t actually going to try to lock Hillary up, and that he really had no opposition to gay marriage after all, to move much more to the center.
I’m a firm believer it was the power of prayer from millions that helped him win in 2016. I personally know of people who were spending hours in prayer on election day, it was a phenomenon nationwide. Didn’t happen that I saw in 2020, I believe because Trump had changed by then.
Every single RINO I’ve ever seen pretends to be conservative to win republican primary elections then goes lib in the general. Conservative principles are correct principles when they are spelled out to the public, people like them. Conservative candidates don’t allow the media to dictate what those principles are. (For example, see how DeSantis got re-elected governor in Florida.)
Your idea that republican candidates have some unwritten rule that forces them to run to the left is nonsense. They run to the left because they are under the control of the left. Both republican and democrat are owned, bought and paid for by the deep state.
I learned years ago that if politicians can’t run on/defend conservative principles, it’s because they are not conservatives. If RINO Ron is already discussing his dash to the left, there is no doubt in my mind what he is. (Not that there ever was any doubt that DeSantis is a RINO. Florida is a state of enormous stealth RINOs.)