A Florida hurricane and shooting are testing Ron DeSantis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s chances at the 2024 Republican presidential nomination may be slipping away. Once the favorite to take down Donald Trump, DeSantis’s poll numbers have progressively declined while the former president’s have surged, despite a performance in the first debate that many watchers rated highly. And now, he’s been forced to indefinitely leave the campaign trail in Iowa and New Hampshire to address multiple major crises in his home state, including a racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville and Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall as a Category 3 storm...