When Ron DeSantis first announced his candidacy, he was Trump’s clearest rival—and a favorite punching bag for Trump’s minions. Now, Trumpworld sees little need to punch down.
—a glitchy and distraction-filled conversation with Elon Musk and friends on the social media platform X—represented perhaps the peak of MAGA-world trolling, with Trump backers reveling in the schadenfreude.
“You’re beating a team in the fourth quarter and you’re up 58 to 6,” the GOP strategist who wished to remain anonymous said of the pro-Trump trolls. “It’s the conference championship, and you wanna move on to the Super Bowl.” “It’s like being a rookie in the NFL,” Coker said of DeSantis, whose political prospects he argued aren’t finished just yet. “You go out in your first season, struggle to learn the playbook, and the second time around, you’re either better at it or out of the game.”
Despite Trump’s firm place atop the polls, with the exceptions of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Hutchinson, the rest of the field has taken a light touch to Trump in an effort to avoid incurring the wrath of his followers. There are also Republicans, including some on the Trump campaign, who think the former president’s criminal trials could lead to a
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