Why is Ron DeSantis faltering? He’s not. Trump is soaring. He has re-coagulated himself like the bad guy in 'Terminator 2.'
Donald Trump’s enablers know that history’s heroes stand on principle, but they choose cowardice over courage.The 2024 Republican primary has entered a post-policy phase. There’s no doubt that DeSantis has been a fantastic conservative political and policy success in Florida; a Republican governor who has gotten results. Or that former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is a polished presence. Or that South Carolina Sen.
But for the Republican Party now, no one can deliver the vindication that Trump can, should he defeat Biden in 2024. For Trump to win a national election after everything that has happened would be, for the voters who have stuck with him since 2016, sweet revenge on the legacy media, on Democrats and on those who sit atop the institutions they have come to at best distrust and at worst despise.
Is the primary over? No. People have to vote, and it is Iowa or bust for DeSantis and all the rest. And the Iowa caucuses have seen late-breaking shifts in the past. And maybe my fellow Republicans at some point will think more seriously about what might happen if we nominate a man who could be a convicted felon by Inauguration Day in 2025.
But don’t bet on second thoughts. Trump looks strong now and Biden looks weak, a state of nirvana for most Republican voters. Scott Jennings is a former special assistant to President George W. Bush and a senior CNN political commentator.
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