In 2018, DeSantis won the Republican primary for governor of [[Florida]] based on [[Trump]]'s endorsement of him, and then won by a small margin the general election. In 2022, the [[conservative]] Ashley Moody won reelection as Attorney General by nearly 61% of the vote, which helped carry DeSantis to victory with a smaller number of those same votes. | In 2018, DeSantis won the Republican primary for governor of [[Florida]] based on [[Trump]]'s endorsement of him, and then won by a small margin the general election. In 2022, the [[conservative]] Ashley Moody won reelection as Attorney General by nearly 61% of the vote, which helped carry DeSantis to victory with a smaller number of those same votes. |