FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The three Democratic candidates for Florida governor are talking to voters, offering optimistic sound bites to interviewers, and courting financial donors — selling themselves and the premise that they really, truly have a chance to defeat Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Other Democrats aren’t so sanguine.
Six months before the Aug. 23 primary in which Democratic voters will choose a nominee to go up against DeSantis and nine months before mail voting and in-person early voting will be underway for the Nov. 8 general election, their assessment is far different: The Republican governor’s reelection seems all-but-certain.
