In the days after the 2022 midterms, commentators immediately began to talk about a potential matchup of Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. The Donald is running as a revenge and restoration candidate. He’s in. And certainly DeSantis will throw his hat in. His poll numbers in the party, his fundraising ability, and the fact that warm memories of his example during the Covid era will likely fade by 2028 all point to a 2024 heavyweight matchup.
Surely we could have a clean fight like Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan in 1976, or Al Gore vs. Bill Bradley in 2000 — one that would have the benefit of forcing the eventual winner to confront, mollify, and as much as possible conciliate the other sectors of his party before going on to the general.
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