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View this email in your browser November 30, 2022  | by Chris Cillizza and Shania Shelton Ron DeSantis gets the frontrunner treatment  On Wednesday alone, two BIG articles about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis were published. The first, in The Spectator World , is a deep dive into DeSantis' childhood and his hometown of Dunedin. The second, written by the incomparable Mark Leibovich in The Atlantic , tries to get at who DeSantis is, really, and what makes him tick.   These twin profiles are telling -- not just in what they say (more on that in a minute) -- but that they were assigned. Because publications don't commission these sorts of deep dives into people who don't matter. They commission these pieces on people who matter very much.   What these stories reveal is that DeSantis is now getting the digging, probing and prodding that comes with being (one of) the potential frontrunners for a presidential nominatio...