Opinion | Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign could be brief - The Washington Post

Using GOP control of the Florida legislature as though it were a campaign billboard, DeSantis has loosened the state's gun laws; lowered the threshold for imposing the death penalty; expanded school vouchers; and imposed "anti-woke" restrictions on teachers and administrators at every level of public education, including in the state's universities. He has made it illegal for doctors to provide gender-transition care for minors. To top it off, he signed a bill establishing a six-week abortion ban, which — if allowed to take effect by the Florida Supreme Court — would be one of the most draconian in the nation. 

Ta-da! Yet his poll numbers keep going down, not up…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/22/desantis-republican-presidential-campaign-brief/