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MIAMI No one had to tell Ron DeSantis that his mock debates had bordered on disastrous. His answers rambled. He seemed uninspired.
By the time he got to the greenroom of the biggest political stage of his career, a Republican primary debate for Florida governor in June 2018, he had made a risky decision.
I thought about everything we did in debate practice, his campaign manager, Brad Herold, recalled DeSantis telling him. Im going to throw it out and do my own thing.
At the debates start, the audience applauded louder for his better-known opponent, Adam Putnam. By its end after he had cast Putnam as a vestige of old Republicanism and delivered a rat-a-tat of one-liners DeSantis had taken command of the crowd.
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He attracts Trump's largest constituency, the dumbass vote.
