What do you make of Gov. Ron DeSantis essentially saying that focusing on past elections will result in the Democrats defeating Republicans once again?

GALLAGHER: Here was Trump’s assessment of Gov. DeSantis’ personality or more appropriately, a lack thereof.
TRUMP: The problem with Ron DeSanctimonious is that he needs a personality transplant, and those are not yet available. Almost all congressmen and women that served with him and knew him well supported me. Some of them surprisingly so, because of their relationship with Ron. I would say that when it comes to lack of personality, Ron would be in a class with Asa Hutchinson, and that’s not good. Ron’s foreign trip was a total bomb. They didn’t even know what he was doing there. What are you doing here, Ron? Why are you here? It was a mess. Thank you.
GALLAGHER: It was a mess. Meanwhile, here is DeSantis talking about being positive. Maybe DeSantis is drawing a line in the sand on the positivity of his campaign versus Trump’s.
DESANTIS: We must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent years. The time for excuses is over. We’ve got to demonstrate the courage to lead and the strength to win. If we do that, if we make 2024 the election a referendum on Joe Biden and his failures and if we provide a positive alternative for the future of this country, Republicans will win across the board. If we do not do that, if we get distracted, if we focus the election on the past or on other side issues, then I think the Democrats are going to beat us again. And I think it’ll be very difficult to recover from that defeat.
GALLAGHER: Now to DeSantis fans, his trip to Iowa was manna from heaven. Here is Karl Rove, the so called brain of retail politics. There are rumors that Karl is behind DeSantis and is rejecting Donald Trump. Here was Karl Rove’s analysis of DeSantis’ visit to Iowa.
ROVE: I frankly thought it was a good start for DeSantis. He wisely did — in Iowa, they like to see you up close and personal, they don’t want to be part of a 10,000-person crowd or 5,000, they want to see you up close and personal, and he had several events like that. I thought it was good. I was very impressed with his legislative endorsements. The Republican Senate President and the Republican House leader both endorsed him, along with 30 of their colleagues. That’s a strong start. And he is being hosted by the Republican congressman in western Iowa, Randy Feenstra, and that’s a Republican stronghold when it comes to the caucus.