Ron DeSantis

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“Like Trump – but younger and saner.”

Another hoped-for winning formula in the fight for conservative voters: DeSantis is like Trump. But he is younger, and he is sane.

DeSantis has so far followed a tight legal course. He wants to win some of the Trump-loyal party bases on his side. And in Florida, he rages as a warrior against the progressive Woke ideology. His slogan: “This is the state where woke dies!”

His anti-woke fight against the liberal entertainment giant Disney is now world-famous. Although DeSantis got married at Disney World near Orlando in 2009.

However, the showdown with Mickey Mouse was more in the direction of their own goal: Business-friendly Republicans resent the political leadership of a company.

A clean man with a “Kennedy family” for the Oval Office

DeSantis wants to starkly contrast Trump’s ongoing scandals with his ca- reer and telegenic family - the former TV presenter and breast cancer survivor Casey (42) and the minor children Madison, Mason, and Mamie!

The Harvard graduate with southern Italian roots became SEAL Team One’s legal advisor in 2004. He served in the terror prison at Guantanamo and during the Iraq War. In 2012 his political career started in Congress. Then, in 2018, she led him to the governor’s office in the Florida capital, Tallahassee.

But his secret weapon is his wife, Casey: Florida’s First Lady has already been nicknamed “Queen of Camelot 2.0”, a reference to the legendary Kennedys. A source told the New York Post: “The whole family reminds me of the Kennedys - they look confident and comfortable in front of the camera...”

And DeSantis has another arrow in his quiver: With 110 million dollars, he currently has the bulging war coffers of all applicants. But a problematic election campaign awaits, even a tightrope act: He has to catch up with the usual belligerent Trump and assert himself in a rapidly growing field of candidates.

DeSantis is “Trump’s only serious competitor in the struggle for the nomination, even if it seems like a hopeless endeavor right now,” political scientist Jonathan Cristol says. After all, DeSantis could score points in further expected charges against the ex-president.

However, according to Cristol, there is a political shortcoming: DeSantis finds it difficult to show “normal human emotions.” Or that he enjoys the “everyday things of politics.” Recent setbacks in the Disney war are also scratching the image of a winner.

The fact that so many Republicans are stepping into the ring at the moment illustrates the weakness: he may be Trump’s most dangerous opponent, but he seems vulnerable in this role...