WASHINGTON ¨C If Ron DeSantis hopes to defeat Donald Trump and win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, he will ultimately have to bring every possible anti-Trump voter he can into the fold. But even that likely will not be enough, political analysts say.
DeSantis will also have to pull some supporters away from Trump ¡ª and that could make for a tricky balancing act that DeSantis is already struggling with.
¡°You can¡¯t court MAGA while courting the rest of the party,¡± said Chris Stirewalt, a Republican analyst with the American Enterprise Institute, referring to Trump¡¯s diehard supporters in his Make America Great Again movement. ¡°That¡¯s a difficult decision he is going to have to make.¡±
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