30% were independents

[bruce MN]

The (Murdoch) Wall Street Journal no less.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-independent-voters-broke-for-democrats-in-the-midterms-11668249002?...

[sdholloway56]

Of course policy wise DeSantis would be worse.

But maybe without some of the buffoonery?

But I cant see the hardest core tens of millions of the trump cult coming along without making a bit of a spectacle.

[rickgthf]

... is going to have really tough sledding. Essentially they will be running against everything the republicans ran on the past  8 years.  How does a republican get back to the middle without repudiating everything they've stood for since 2012?

  It will require a brain wipe of the whole republican party, possible but hard to imagine, or is it?