FL Gov belongs in a tier of its own for Democrats - fool’s gold. Always so close, yet so far. SC should be ahead of AR and TX Gov should become more competitive once Abbott retires.
Not with George P Bush being on the horizon. To me SC in this analogy is MS and AR is KY , with KY/AR being the more redder state at the Presidential level and in a pure gen dem vs gen gop race but they are more elastic as well
Texas is a trending D state that will have had R governors for thirty years, whenever Abbott retires, his replacement will almost certainly be a D. No one named “George Bush” is going to win any sort of marques race anytime soon too. Even if he’s fairly moderate and a good fit on paper, which he is.