Despite all the hype he never stood any chance of dethroning Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination and it actually had little to do with him. It's because Donald Trump has had the nomination in the bag since Jan. 21, 2021. Even zombie Reagan wouldn't be able to beat him. And there was never any doubt that Trump was going to seek a rematch since he had staked his well-being and the future of the GOP on the Big Lie that the election had been stolen from him.
But DeSantis was one of the most arrogant of all these alleged superstars. And his campaign may have been the worst of all time. There have been quite a few postmortems of this disastrous campaign already, some of them even before he officially dropped out. It wasn't hard to see it coming. Despite the media continuing to take him very seriously almost until the end, it's been clear that his campaign was nose-diving since the spring of last year.
