A decade back, when Ron DeSantis was emerging from a Republican primary for a safe congressional seat on Florida’s northern Atlantic coast, no one was predicting that the Navy veteran and double-Ivy would be talked about as the future of the Republican Party.
Easy general-election victories against overmatched competition came in 2012, 2014, and 2016. That last one happened after DeSantis launched a run for Marco Rubio’s Senate seat, then shelved those aspirations when Rubio found a reason to run for reelection after Trump thumped him in the presidential primary.
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