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Marion McKeone: DeSantis emerges as the new GOP pretender as Trump’s grip loosens
Described by party strategists as ‘Trump with a brain’, Ron DeSantis has emerged for Republicans as a creditable contender to the former US president, but he is also widely perceived as lacking in personality or charisma
As Donald Trump faces criminal legal jeopardy on at least three fronts, there is a growing sense among Republicans, even some Trump supporters, that the former president could be more of a liability than an asset in a 2024 face-off against Joe Biden.
Last week, the sound and fury orchestrated by Trump in the wake of the FBI search and retrieval of classified documents from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida was muted as the extent ...