As politicians go, DeSantis is an outlier. He's smart, well-informed, lucid, and fearless. Unlike Asterisk, who has always been a buffoon.
If it came down to DeSantis versus Trump in the GOP Convention in 2024, DeSantis gets my nod. He's less polarizing than Trump, but that is not to suggest that he would not be a target for the left. The left would be relentless against whomever the GOP candidate is, and they would stoop at nothing to smear him/her.