DeSantis dilemma on Senate pick and the MAGA-Florida connection

by Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix
 

When Ron DeSantis sidles up next to Donald Trump Saturday in Landover, Maryland, to watch the Army-Navy football game, the topic of whom the Florida governor appoints to the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Marco Rubio might be a topic of conversation.

Trump and parts of MAGA World — including Sen. Rick Scott — are lobbying intensely for the governor to select the president-elect’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, for the seat.

Ms. Trump’s...