At the first presidential debate of the Republican primary, Nikki Haley shined, Chris Christie blustered, Mike Pence sparred in uncharacteristically feisty fashion, and Vivek Ramaswamy got down and dirty and personal with just about every candidate in the arena.
The man polling in second nationally only to Donald Trump may have been in the center of the stage, but Ron DeSantis was far from the center of the drama. Depending on who you ask, the Florida governor was either smartly staying above the fray or a second-place-and-sliding also-ran who receded into irrelevance. While our first available post-debate polling shows that DeSantis avoided any candidacy-ending catastrophes a la Michael Dukakis in 1988, DeSantis’s wooden and packaged performance may have cost him a shot at something even more crucial: Momentum.
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