Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis swap states

[Samof94]

Let's say they had emerged in the "opposite" state.  I know it'd be easy for an R to win in either, especially Florida. How would Ron DeSantis do in Texas instead of Florida and vice versa???

[bagelman]

Both would've won easily enough in 2022. DeSantis would have even less of a reason to be loyal to Trump, and he would essentially be filling the shoes of Ted Cruz.

The real butterfly is Abbott winning in 2018, but I imagine he could do even better than DeSantis did.

[Sir Mohamed]

DeSantis does better in TX in 2022 than Abbott did, while Abbott does slightly worse than Rubio in that same race.

[FloridaMan1845]

DeSantis kills any hope of Blexas happening for the next two decades. Abbott performs at about Rubio margins, maybe a bit less.

[Mr. Smith]

Gillum defeats Abbott in 2018. Flat out.

Valdez probably loses more like Collier or O'Rourke than what actually happened.

Skipping to 2022: DeSantis probably does about the same, but Abbott probably looks more like Rubio's margins.