The DeSantis Effect on the Republican Party

I think he thought, especially post COVID and post gubernatorial reelection landslide, that just existing was enough to show himself as a contrast to Trump. But the numbers belighted. It's not as though DeSantis was beating Trump like a drum in December. There were a couple of polls in which DeSantis had pulled ahead of him, but they were very evanacent. I would say that the real X factor danger for Trump in terms of his behavior is when this trial in New York, the rape, the civil case concludes.