Fasten your seat belt. Here it the ad:
Here is conservative New York Times columnist Brett Stephens on the DeSantis ad: “I guess my main takeaway is that DeSantis isn’t going to be the next president. He makes Trump seem tolerant, Ted Cruz seem likable, Mitch McConnell seem moderate, Lauren Boebert seem mature and Rick Santorum seem cool.”
I would not be so quick to write-off DeSantis, at least for the GOP nomination. This strategy will appeal to many conservative evangelical voters. It will make them question Trump’s commitments to the moral agenda of the Christian Right. Some will ask: “How can I vote for a presidential candidate who believed in LGBTQ rights?”
I think it could make *some* evangelicals get queasy about Trump during the primary–if there is a primary–but Trump will still bulldozer DeSantis in the charisma department–DeSantis is not ready for ptime time on the national stage and I don’t think he ever will be, he just doesn’t have “it”–and negative polarization will keep them in line on election day.