Take a step back and look at these "news" bits -- the vast majority of which are from outlets that either are totally in the tank for Trump, despite his many sins, and are little more than hit pieces. Much of it is supposition and slander made from whole cloth.
Consider that the same kind of dirty crap could be all over this site about Trump, and there is some, but most folks here who aren't die-hard Trump-worshippers still aren't going to do that to him, many of which voted for Trump when elections actually counted for something... so it's a pretty lopsided representation.
Don't look at DeSantis the man, look at what he has done. He has promoted and made law here in Florida a conservative course of action on many fronts, that no other governor this state has ever had can match -- that no other governor across these 50 states can equal.
Don't fall for the DU-level agitprop that too many here are currently indulging in. Look at the man and what he has done. Don't trust the ravings of people who'd like to see him dead.
He didn't do it on his own. The Swamp needs a Great Swamp Hope to get rid of Trump, and they chose Ronald Herbert Walker DeSantis and gave him "victories" to prop him up.
Is it demented or fact that Ron DeSantis got his State Legislature to change the "Resign to Run" bill, so he could run for President, and not have to give up the office of Governor to do so? The only other self-serving individual who got that law changed was Charlie Crist, who thought he had a shot at being McCain's VP choice. The law was changed back by Rick Scott when he became Governor. Using your State Legislature to help your own political endeavors sucks, and with that move, DeSantis showed just what a self-serving POS he really is.
He lied to the people of Florida when he campaigned last year for his second term. You don't decide to run for President on the spur of the moment, and then announce it. It takes time to drum up support, and get the pieces to fall in place. In all likelihood, DeSantis already knew he was going to run for President before last year's election, and never shared it with the people he wanted to vote for him. He's a conniving creep who used the people of Florida to put him back in office so he would have a platform to run for President.
Okay - but he can answer simple questions which he is not doing.
And he’s been great in Florida at fighting woke.inc, but on substantive management issues, like roads, our insurance failures and other work-a-day-how-to-manage stuff I have NOT been impressed.
Plus he is a literal political whore, scrounging around for donors - which is never good.
All he had to do was wait - and all those donors, plus Trump, plus everyone reading here - would have been beating his door in.
HUGE tactical blunder IMO. I still like him, a lot, but I’m disappointed.