Ron DeSantis is flaming out – and Trump is on course for a Republican coronation | Lloyd Green

The Florida governor's flaws are glaringly apparent. Right now, it's hard to see the nominee as anyone other than Trump

The Ron DeSantis boomlet is done. He consistently trails Donald Trump by double-digits. A Wall Street Journal poll out Friday pegs Florida's governor in severe retrograde, slipping 27 points since December. DeSantis mistakenly conflates his campaign's bulging war chest with adulation. Wrong!

He forgot that working-class Americans dominate the Republican party and that mien matters. Voting to gut social security comes with fatal backlash, and eating pudding with your fingers is gross. Said differently, largesse from the party's donor base coupled with little else is a losing recipe.

Lloyd Green is an attorney in New York and served in the US Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992