Not 2016 anymore: Six reasons Trump can't do to DeSantis what he did to Jeb Bush
by W. James Antle III, Politics Editor
November 11, 2022 08:48 AMFormer President Donald Trump launched his political career by steamrolling a once-popular Republican governor of Florida in the GOP primaries, assigning him a nickname and embarrassing him in debates.
Apparently on the verge of relaunching his political career early next week, Trump appears to be hoping lightning strikes twice. After a brief preelection armistice, Trump has resumed his attacks on the “average” Republican governor he clearly views as his main rival for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
But there are several reasons to believe what worked against Jeb Bush could fail against Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis is ascendant, while Bush was past his prime By the time Jeb Bush ran for president, he was eight years removed from serving as governor of Florida. His best chance to become president had probably passed 15 years before that, but Bush did not win his initial campaign for governor of Florida in 1994 while his brother was elected governor of Texas.
Jeb was the one seen as having presidential timbre. But George W. Bush was the one in his second term as governor of a major state when 2000 rolled around. The rest was history.
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