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It's amazing how short-term the memory is of a lot of people who cover politics in the press.

There's an article in Politico today.

There's a number of polls that show DeSantis and Trump's tied for Republican support.

One, though, has Trump up like 45% DeSantis at 28%.

Fox News is highlighted that one.

There's the WPA Intelligence poll that has DeSantis at 45 and Trump below that.

They're bouncing all around.

The early states are really what matters in the grassroots stuff.

But David Siders and Meredith McGraw have this story in Politico.

The question, just how big is the always Trump component of the Republican Party.

Despite his difficulties since he left office, about a third of Republicans and Republican

leaning voters still consider themselves supporters more of Trump than the Republican Party.

According to an NBC News poll, many of them aren't going anywhere.

Fully 28% of Republican primary voters are so devoted to the former president that they said they'd support him,

even if he ran as an independent.

Indeed, the always Trump component of the party is so pronounced that it's affecting

how Trump's opponents operate around him. All these folks are just hoping that Trump's going to

have a heart attack on a golf course one day, and that's going to solve the problem, says

Fergus Cullen, a former New Hampshire Republican Party chair.

It's hard to fault them. Republican campaigns have calculated that they can't afford to offend an entire swath of the GOP electorate still sympathetic to Trump. Instead, they've chosen to chip away

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