Ron DeSantis: “Well, now the issues are different. And Republicans, it seemed like, with some of the ads I was seeing, with how much…”

The Washington Post is fabricating this out of whole cloth.

To call it a wave would, I don’t think, would be fully accurate. It’s the political equivalent of a meteor strike.

If the Republican Party doesn’t have Texas as an anchor, we won’t be viable nationally going forward.

This was a rejection of Republicans in Washington, and Democrats just happened to be the beneficiary.