Donald Trump has suggested that Ron DeSantis should quit the 2024 race, but as stevebenen writes, given the governor's troubles in Florida, maybe there’s a reason he prefers to stay on the campaign trail.
. The Florida Republican’s polling support is slipping; his finances aren’t great; he shook up his staff less than two months after launching; and his status as the obvious “not Trump” candidate is in peril as other GOP contenders gradually gain support.
It’d be an exaggeration to say DeSantis’ national ambitions are doomed, but as 2023 got underway, he looked like a possible front-runner for his party’s nomination. No one is seriously using that label now. Complicating matters, he recently began blaming his campaign troubles on news organizations that he believes are secretlyin the hopes of helping President Joe Biden — which was every bit as bonkers as it sounded.
Hoping to get back on track, the Floridian did something he almost never does: DeSantis, who tends to limit his media interviews to conservative outlets, sat down with an actual journalistic professional for an interview aired on an independent news outlet. That was the good news. The bad news was that CNN’s Jake Tapper asked the governor all kinds of good questions — about abortion rights, Donald Trump’s prosecution, aid to Ukraine, etc. — each of which the Republican dodged with non-answers.
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