Molly Ball: “For long stretches of the debate, it was possible to imagine an alternate universe, where these were the only candidates vying to take on President Biden and the past eight years never happened. But as DeSantis tried to pivot to a topic he deemed more important, Baier brought him back to reality: ‘President Trump,’ he noted, ‘is beating you by 30 or 40 points in many polls.'”
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