Let’s start with what DeSantis needs to do next. Abandon New Hampshire … IMMEDIATELY. And say why … BECAUSE NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS ARE NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF REPUBLICANS NATIONALLY; they are much more liberal than Republicans nationally, and I am NOT a good fit. Then focus on Iowa and South Carolina … reducing expectations for both, AND … fix his dysfunctional campaign.
OBVIOUSLY, DeSantis was NOT a good fit for New Hampshire … one of the most pro-abortion, pro-woke, pro-COVID-authoritarianism States in the country. The idea that the face of anti-COVID-authoritarianism would resonate with New Hampshire’s lock-us-down, mask-us-up, vax-us-up voters was and remains IDIOTIC. But it is even worse than that.
DeSantis has been trying to simultaneously appeal to the donor class and Republican voters … which CANNOT BE DONE. In order to please the donor class, his campaign has tried to recast him as some Koch-fueled JUST “cut taxes,’ “cut regulations,” blah, blah, blah, focus on the fiscal issues… which he obviously is NOT.
The beginning of DeSantis’ demise was, in my opinion, when he chose to walk back the correct answer he gave Tucker about the War-in-Ukraine and spewed the same Putin-is-Hitler pablum as the Establishment IN ORDER TO PLACATE THE DONOR-CLASS. He looked weak and NOT his own man.
And it has gone from bad to worse as the campaign turned his descent into a free-fall. He is NOT a retail campaigner. He is NOT a Koch-bot. To use a sports analogy, the DeSantis campaign’s approach is like a coach telling Kevin McHale, one of the greatest post-up players in NBA history, to just shoot jump shots from the top of the key.
Just let DeSantis be DeSantis. And that starts with recognizing he has NO CHANCE in Blue Hampshire and pulling the plug on the Granite State.
