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    Fox News Isn’t a Kingmaker

    If it were, Ron DeSantis would be the Republican front-runner.
    by Paul Farhi Jan 14, 2024 5 minutes
    Source: Alex Wong / Getty

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    As the 2024 Republican presidential field began to stir three years ago, Fox News tried to make Ron DeSantis happen. From the week of the 2020 election through February 2021, the network invited DeSantis to appear 113 times, or almost once a day, according to the Tampa Bay Times. In an email uncovered by that newspaper, one Fox producer gushed to a member of DeSantis’s staff, “We see him as the future of the party.”

    Maybe, but the future isn’t now. After that early burst of attention, the DeSantis bandwagon never got out of the garage. DeSantis’s national crested at about 30 percent in early 2023 before slipping to less than half that figure. His presidential campaign

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