We talked about Florida in the new edition of The Editors podcast. One point that I made is that it’s easy to roll your eyes at the Ron DeSantis Trump-hugging primary campaign, but if you are a working politician things look different than if you are a commentator. DeSantis started as an relative unknown in the state-wide race and needed the grassroots if he was going to beat the favorite Adam Putnam. There is only one way to have a chance to do that in today’s environment: get on Fox — a lot — and win Trump’s endorsement. DeSantis did both (the self-parodic ad that everyone cites was actually supposed to be self-parodic, not that it wasn’t a little painful all the same). He won by 20 points and now has a good chance to be the next governor of Florida.

Further to that, the stakes in the general are huge, given the nomination of democratic-socialist Andrew Gillum. We editorialized about his threat to the Florida model yesterday.