What has DeSantis been fighting compared with Trump, and just what has DeSantis sacrificed?
Wow. What has Trump actually fought other than lawsuits/criminal charges? He's a lot of talk, and that's it. Rather than fighting against the federal bureaucracy when it came to Covid, he punted, and the excuse given is "well, they would have been really mean to him if he had fired Fauci, so he had to go along with those recommendations." No, he didn't.
His selling point is supposedly his willingness to take on the "deep state", but when push came to shove, he folded like a cheap suit precisely because he was unwilling to take on the deep state.
And what has he "sacrificed"??? Good grief, there is absolutely
nothing the guy loves more than being the center of attention. He absolutely loves running for office because he has millions of supporters who, as he said, would keep supporting him even if he shot someone. He loves being President because he loves the adulation, and whatever financial cost he's had to pay is meaningless because he already has far more than most people, and more than he'd ever spend.
Running for office and winning is the greatest thing that has ever happened to him. He hasn't "sacrificed" squat.
DeSantis fought successfully against the Trump-led federal governments efforts to force masking, social distancing, and school closings. He fought successfully against CRT in schools, he's fought against the cult of transgenderism, he fought - successfully again - against Democrats in Florida, actually expanding both his own level of support and the support for Republicans in the legislature. He's fought to have district attorneys prosecute actual crimes, and when he had one who didn't, he gave him the boot.
If you want more details, ask some Floridians. I know that as a conservative American, Trump failed me in his first term, and I'm not about to give him a second.