DeSantis has found his footing a bit more in the last few answers. His answer on abortion was a home run — making both the substantive case as well as getting in a dig at Trump for his absence as well as his efforts to blame pro-lifers for the disappointing mid-term elections.
DeSantis finally gets off the clearly-prepared and well-executed hit on Trump for his abortion comments.
10:46 abortion finally comes up
Strong hit on Trump on abortion from DeSantis
Doug Burgum feels like he beamed in from a debate with Socrates walking along the Agora with Thrasymachus relative to the rest of these guys talking politics. It’s admirable but there’s a reason it’s not happening this cycle.
DeSantis actually succeeds in interjecting himself in a fight between other candidates, as he has tried a couple of times before, and does the “let’s be bigger than this petty argument“ thing
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Doug Burgum keeps making the case for what a president could do if the electorate was seventy percent Republican.
DeSantis says he’s the only one who has gotten in the big fights and gotten big wins for the people. That is a distinction between him and the other candidates on the stage, isn’t it? I think he can make the case that he’s got a better success rate, given the smaller scale, than Trump, but it’s messier.