Ron DeSantis of Florida had been delivered a tremendous gift this week when his main presidential rival was charged with mishandling the country’s national security secrets.
But as Mr. DeSantis’s latest speech showed, this is a turn of events he will need to beware.
In an address to Republicans in North Carolina on Friday night, his first public remarks since the unsealing of federal charges against former President Donald J. Trump, Mr. DeSantis trod carefully and danced quickly past the subject.
Seeming to muse aloud, Mr. DeSantis asked what the Navy would have done to him had he taken classified documents while in military service.
“I would have been court-martialed in a New York minute,” he said, in a riff on Mr. Trump’s hometown.
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