Predictable.
When is someone with a purpose in the profession going to analyze the effect of AI upon candidates in the lead up to primaries?
I’m absolutely not a DeSantis fan, but I didn’t think it was possible he’d disintegrate so early. Nothing has occurred which should have killed his prospects, but we see the evidence.
I believe that it’s evidence not of a campaign self-destructing, but a campaign against him with government resources & AI servers, and I believe that additional evidence is out there in plain sight for those who are looking for it (I don’t have the time).
Don’t bet on unicorns when you hear hoofbeats.
DeSantis is a terrible candidate. He has no charisma, did not resonate with voters, started out with a lie immediately after winning the Governorship in Florida. It is very clear from the sequence of events that he used Fl as a stepping stone & never intended to serve his second term.
He did nothing of note in Congress and alienated the congressmen from Florida who have reported not hearing from him despite attempts to contact him until he sought them out for endorsements.
I do not think so poorly of the base as to imagine that they do not remember how DeSantis was rescued in his 1st Florida race by Trump, and how he won only against a weak opponent, whom he outspent 7x, in his 2nd Florida race.
The base watched DeSantis turn from a Trump booster to someone who sought to step aside and work against Trump by casting aspersions & standing aloof.
The base also is aware that Ron is underwritten, managed and supported by large GOP-e players as a method to destroy Trump with Trump lite. DeSantis gives a bit of red meat to the base by his conservative moralities stance. Many feel that this is a cynical exercise. DeSantis made a mess of the campaign rollout and has gone downhill since on his own merits. No need for conspiracy AI theories.