Trump had no legislative history when he ran in 2016. DeSantis does.

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1. I said the same thing many times before.

TFG could position himself wherever he wants on any given issue, and he did for most of them. He is a little left on the first sentence and then went right on the next and people kind of viewed him as a moderate. Once his policies were known in his term, along with his crazy antics, swing voters turned away from him. With DeSantis, his against woke policies and many other right wing policies will turn off those swing voters as well.