The Non-Trump Lane in the Republican Party

There is no non-Trump lane in this party because DeSantis lost 20 points in six months and almost every single one of those points went to Donald Trump. So it's not that they don't want Trump, is that there is a group of voters who are open to something better than Trump, Trump plus. The electability thing is interesting because we've talked a lot in this show and during the 2020 Democratic primaries about how the electability was a bullshit concept. It's really like sort of steeped in racial and gender tropes.