Desantis is younger and doesn’t have the same propoganda spewed about him.

Trumps base are pretty antivax. Trump pushed that vaccine hard. Desantis has a better track record with covid.

Still Desantis has little chance unless trump goes to jail or something. So I don’t think he’s scared.

Next election trump will be to old but Desantis won’t be

I always just assumed it was a competition thing with Desantis being his strongest opponent to running on the Republican platform

Desantis has far less baggage. And at least so far he is running to Trump’s right. Good direction to go for the primary.