Don’t Buy The (Right-Wing) Media’s Framing On Trump v. DeSantis

The GOP establishment and their allies on the left would love nothing more than a bloody, intraparty fight between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. 

Although Trump is still the clear frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, after DeSantis won reelection to Florida’s governorship by a landslide, many right-wing voters and pundits are considering jumping ship from Trump to DeSantis.  

Since Election Day — or week, rather — conservative media outlets have put out article after article arguing Trump’s days are over, and DeSantis’s have just begun. National Review types insist that Trump simply can’t win elections and they’re tired of talking about him. The Washington Examiner ran an editorial clearly throwing its hat in for DeSantis, comparing “booming, broad-coattailed” DeSantis to “ungrammatical sour-grapes” Trump.