Speaking of Ron DeSantis, the argument that Trump supporters make that Trump saved his political career, is not really one that they should brag about. Trump actively campaigns and endorses Ron DeSantis in 2018 and he barely wins in an election that was close enough to warrant a recount.
Come 2022, neither happens from Donald Trump, nor did DeSantis seek his endorsement, and he wins by 20 points. If the opposite happened, that Trump didn’t campaign for him in 2018, but did so in 2022, well, then Trump would have bragging rights that would be hard to argue with.
If I’m training a boxer, and that boxer barely wins fights, mostly on split decisions, and he decides that with me his career isn’t going anywhere, and decides to train himself and ends up winning knockout fights and his career takes off, do I get to take credit for “saving his career?” Does that boxer “owe me?”
Of course not. That would be absurd.
This explains Donald Trump’s attacks on Ron DeSantis just days before the midterm. No, despite one posters insistence, this wasn’t some grand strategy. It’s the same type of mindset that Trump has that had him endorse Stacey Abrams over Brian Kemp for governor of Georgia. Trump would rather have a Congress full of AOC’s than one republican that doesn’t kiss his derrière. Because Kemp and DeSantis did not seek his endorsement in 2022, it had an affect on Trump’s psyche. And this has nothing to do with what one feels about Ron DeSantis or Brian Kemp. This is 100% Donald Trump and his behavioral issues. Trump has admitted to having the same temperament in adulthood as he did when he was six years old. But why do his supporters believe they must indulge that behavior?
The republican party is in a hot, wet mess. But it wasn’t like the party was in great shape before the arrival of Trump, either.
