New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- RON DESANTIS is never the most charming man in a room but he is usually the most formidable. Speaking at a political club in Naples in February, Florida's governor reflected on his two terms. "I sat there on the first day as governor, I looked around the empty office and I was just like, listen I don't know what SOB is going to succeed me but they are not going to have a lot to do because I'm going to get all the meat off the bone that I can," he said. Nearly eight years later, as Mr DeSantis prepares to leave office, he reckons he has delivered. "That's what we've done."

On August 18th voters in Florida will choose the Democrat and Republican who will battle to become that "SOB" in November's general election. Byro...