For many months, Ron DeSantis’s aura of electability was his super power, but that’s seeming to fade with each passing day as stories spill out about his dropping poll numbers, personnel shake-ups, and dubious campaign strategies. (His team is already shifting expectations from a blitzkrieg through early primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire to a slow-burn conquest of the delegate count aka the Rudy Giuliani method.) Meanwhile, Trump’s legal woes are sucking up all of the media oxygen and Biden is full steam ahead with his not-yet-official re-election, which people close to him say is evident through his silence. Non-engagement seems to work for him, after all, so why be a candidate if you don’t have to? I discuss all of this and more with Peter Hamby. 

Tara: Peter, everyone in town seems to be talking about DeSantis and his viability. After all, his main selling point to donors was electability, and as the polls drop and he takes more extreme positions on abortion and gun laws, he’s just starting to spook donors. What’s the endgame here?