Foremost among them is Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence-a man who also seems to have served a “Henry Hill at the end of Goodfellas”–like role in Trump’s most recent indictment, handing over reams of contemporaneous notes to the prosecution. In fairness to this disconsolate lot, there are some signs that some of Trump’s competitors understand what’s been gift-wrapped and laid at their feet. This is as clear and depressing an illustration of just how coddled Trump has been, both by conservative media and his fellow Republicans. The silver lining for DeSantis-and, for that matter, the several other Republicans who are doing considerably worse than him in the presidential primary polls-is that most Republicans don’t think Donald Trump committed serious crimes: Only 13 percent of GOP voters believed that he had, per the same Times/Siena poll. But one of the best summations of his general abjectness came in Monday’s disastrous New York Times/Siena poll: In a head-to-head race between DeSantis and Donald Trump, the former still trailed-by five points!-among the sliver of Republican voters who believed that the former president committed “serious federal crimes.” Many voters who acknowledge that Trump is a threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution still prefer him to his nearest challenger. There are many ways to describe Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s flailing presidential campaign-his glitchy campaign announcement is arguably too perfect a metaphor a three-second video of his awkward, honking laugh feels more poetic, if less precise.

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