Florida governor enters the primary weakened after Twitter ‘DeSaster’ as wide field of candidates try to scrape ahead
, editor of the Storm Lake Times in Iowa, which holds the first Republican caucuses early next year, said: “I was talking with a moderate retired Republican schoolteacher just this morning from western Iowa and she doesn’t like the meanness of Trump and DeSantis, so she’s looking for an alternative. Whether that’s Tim Scott or Asa Hutchinson or Chris Sununu, who knows?”with a brand of optimism that contrasts with Trump and DeSantis’s dark rhetoric.
Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott and Nikki Haley have been reluctant to denounce Trump, who retains a lock on the party’s base.Notably DeSantis, Scott and Haley have been reluctant to directly denounce Trump, preferring to let allies do the dirty work or make oblique remarks about the need to end a culture of losing or embrace greatness rather than grievance.
Other potential contenders include Mike Pence, 63, a former vice-president who broke with Trump over the January 6 insurrection; Chris Christie, 60, a former governor of New Jersey who is a pugnacious Trump critic; and Chris Sununu, 48, the governor of New Hampshire who has said he does not believe Trump can beat Biden.
Glenn Youngkin, 56, a hedge fund manager turned Virginia governor who has made much of parents’ rights in schools, isa White House bid after previously ruling it out. Meanwhile Vivek Ramaswamy, 37, a former biotechnology investor and executive, is already waging a quixotic campaign. The bigger the field, the more that Trump stands to benefit. As in 2016, a bevy of candidates may well divide the anti-Trump vote while his base holds fast. It could put pressure on DeSantis to set himself apart by taking off the gloves against the former president, a risky strategy that backfired for fellow Floridians Jeb Bush and
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