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  I agree, DeSantis is just as gross as Trump w/o the charisma so I'm not scared of him. He's a replacement level player, he'd do about as well as any Republican.
context: Good read.  I know we have a while until primaries start, but I really don’t see how the GOP nominee isn’t Trump or DeSantis (and I feel pretty strongly DeSantis wins out in that matter based on some external factors especially).   Either way,  it’s guaranteed it’ll be a grade-A dirtbag that the GOP all gets behind come the 2024 general. >
  
  Either one is fairly certain, I agree, I don't think either one has a very good chance now of winning the primary. 
  DeSantis did after the hurricane, and he could have played it cool and just been a popular governor, but when he used his gubernatorial acceptance speech to rail on about "woke culture" for a half an hour, then followed that up with banning children's books that say worms love each other, he alienated several different key demographics. 
  The youth vote is super important now, and they understand that "woke" means social change that's already taken place, it's something that they've already worked into their lives and it's a done deal, saying that they are going to "fight it" is pretty much saying that you're completely out of touch and don't like their friends and associates and want to force them to capitulate to stepping backwards by force.  
  Really bad move, the books don't help either.