DeSantis not only provides a sharp age contrast with Trump and Biden, he’s got time to spare, writes Ed_Kilgore
One of the reasons DeSantis strikes Republican elites as a better 2024 bet than Trump is that the former president and Joe Biden come across as two geriatric peas in a pod. .
DeSantis is better positioned to take advantage of any age-related stumbles by the incumbent on the general election campaign trail. And if he did win the presidency, Republicans would have to worry much less about the identity of the vice president than they did when Trump was in the White House feasting on cheeseburgers, ice cream, and his own rhetorical bile.
Perhaps there’s no time like the present for DeSantis, who does seem to have captured the zeitgeist of his party and of the “conservative populist” movement he represents . Maybe if he waits around, some charming right-wing whippersnapper will come along who matches DeSantis’s knack for channeling hate and resentment. But now or even later, DeSantis can also plausibly claim that when it comes to his political career, the best is yet to come.
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