Morning Jolt: Should Ron DeSantis Wait His Turn?

Isaac Schorr here, filling in for Jim Geraghty while he’s away on vacation. On the menu today: Some rank punditry about the 2024 presidential race, a rant about Congress’s decision to spend your money hiring 87,000 new tax collectors, and some unsolicited fantasy-football advice.

Get In Line?

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has established himself as the most, and perhaps the only, viable alternative to Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primaries.

For the last three and a half years, DeSantis has used his time in Tallahassee to build out a resume that evidences a firmer commitment to conservative causes and much more impressive focus on achieving conservative ends than Donald Trump ever did. He’s bolstered that record — on Covid, education, “younger transgender” Floridians, and other issues — with crowd-pleasing rebukes of woke capital and the media, which treat DeSantis with a contempt comparable only to that which they show the former president.

And yet, there ...

WITH ISAAC SCHORR August 08 2022 WITH ISAAC SCHORR August 08 2022 Should Ron DeSantis Wait His Turn? Isaac Schorr here, filling in for Jim Geraghty while he’s away on vacation. On the menu today: Some rank punditry about the 2024 presidential race, a rant about Congress’s decision to spend your money hiring 87,000 new tax collectors, and some unsolicited fantasy-football advice. Get In Line? Florida governor Ron DeSantis has established himself as the most, and perhaps the only, viable alternative to Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primaries. For the last three and a half years, DeSantis has used his time in Tallahassee to build out a resume that evidences a firmer commitment to conservative causes and much more impressive focus on achieving conservative ends than Donald Trump ever did. He’s bolstered that record — on Covid, education, “younger transgender” Floridians, and other issues — with crowd-pleasing rebukes of woke capital and the media, which treat DeSantis with a contempt comparable only to that which they show the former president. And yet, there ...   READ MORE

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