I’m not sure about that. I do know that a Trump 2.0 means DeSantis will have to wait.
If DeSantis is going to ever go anywhere, he needs to get out asap and hope he can re-introduce himself in 2028.
He needs to have his own campaign. Not something dreamed up by failed consultants (in his case ex-Cruz).
And be himself, instead of the GOPe consultant generic Presidential candidate: crash diet weight loss, dad jeans with button down oxford, cheap watch with optional pickup (to show he is a “man of the people”), recycled McCain speeches “something greater than their own ambition”, carefully hedged and dodging issues ...
In the meantime, he needs to come up with something effective on FL issues like insurance.
In the 1990s Dems used auto insurance in NJ to really make gains. Housing Ins is even more, and if Repubs get into muh’ capitalism, da’ free market they are going to get their Florida Man asses handed to them.