A great fiction about the 2024 election season is that it hasn’t yet begun: Gavin Newsom is already running ads softly positioning his national profile in ways that would help if Joe Biden decides, after the midterms, that his advanced age relegates him to a single term. The putative Republican field, as my Puck colleague Tara Palmeri noted yesterday, is hyper-populated: Donald Trump is tempting regulators at the F.E.C., saying aloud that he has already made his decision and that an announcement is forthcoming. Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis, despite the obstacle of a reelection this fall, is wooing the sort of big-money contributors one needs to mount a Trump challenge. This week, he traveled to Utah to fundraise from some locals but also some of the country’s wealthiest people who spend their summers in and around Deer Valley.