Washington Publish: “His response to Trump’s indictment displays each the trial-and-error in his strategy, and his reluctance to declare open warfare in opposition to the top-polling Republican candidate. Fairly than open a brand new section of combativeness with Trump, DeSantis is mendacity low once more, at the very least for the second.”
“The one that stated DeSantis wasn’t going to ‘bullied’ expects the governor to push again on Trump extra sharply if he runs for president. However this individual additionally expects he’ll take ‘the excessive highway’ and have interaction with Trump on coverage moderately than commerce insults and name-call — for example, by rebutting the previous president’s criticisms of how DeSantis dealt with the pandemic and taking purpose at Trump’s personal report on the difficulty, together with his use of Anthony S. Fauci as a White Home coronavirus adviser.”