Ron DeSantis entered this year aiming to be the heir to Donald Trump. He’s likelier to wind up as the next Scott Walker, if things don’t turn around soon.
In other words: a superstar conservative governor of a swing state whose presidential aspirations crashed and burned before his campaign ever got off the ground.
“DeSantis is taking a bruising,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said recently.
“It is a daily pummeling that [Donald] Trump is laying on this guy. How many more weeks and months is this going to sustain itself?”
That was weeks ago. Things have only gotten worse on multiple fronts: the bad polling, the
