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Ron DeSantis just saved Trump’s presidency (yes, really)

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

As much as Democrats hate him, for most of his career President Donald Trump’s fiercest enemies have been his fellow Republicans. Yet two of President Trump’s most committed old opponents may have just teamed up to spare him a third impeachment and save his presidency.

After years of grudges and infighting, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis seems to have gotten on board the Trump Train and—incredible as it is—he brought along Chief Justice John Roberts.

Republicans have been caught in a partisan political battle with Democrats over redistricting, the process of deciding the boundaries of congressional districts. State legislators usually favor their own party quietly, but after Texas announced plans to draw more accurate maps in the middle of a census era, Democrats threw everything they had into the fight.

California Governor Gavin Newsom and Virginia’s Abigail Spanberger both decided to create hyper-partisan maps that all-but eliminate Republican representation.   

Democrats thought they won the war.

Virginia, where President Trump won 46 percent of the vote, killed four Republican seats, transforming the House from a 6-5 Democratic split to 10-1.

But in stepped Ron DeSantis.

A court is currently blocking Virginia’s map and may strike it down completely. But even before the ruling, DeSantis called the state legislature to redraw Florida’s congressional districts. When they finish, the Sunshine State alone could cost Democrats four seats—reversing Virginia’s over-the-top gerrymandering all by itself.

And to make matters more depression for the Democrats, that’s just the beginning. Things really kicked off last Wednesday.

That’s when the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which struck down one of the top tools forcing Republican states to create Democratic districts: racial gerrymandering.

More than a generation ago, activist judges ruled that states had to create congressional districts with a majority of black voters, who vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. And the artificial congressional maps their ruling produced gave Democrats a certain number of guaranteed seats.

That ended with a 6-3 ruling on April 29.

“Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965…forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids,” wrote Justice Samuel Alito. (Roberts helped Trump out by appointing one of the most conservative members of the court to write the opinion.)

While Alito’s ink was drying on the ruling, red states followed DeSantis’ leadership.

Alabama immediately followed suit. So did Tennessee.

The Tennessee legislature’s special session to begin redrawing state political maps, called by Republican Gov. Bill Lee, began today.

Other states are said to be considering how to respond to the SCOTUS ruling. But not Georgia, which is led by arch-Trump nemesis Governor Brian Kemp—even though state GOP chairman Chairman Josh McKoon announced his support—nor South Carolina, which is led by Trump-endorsed Republican Gov. Henry McMasters.

Of course, Indiana opted out of midterm redistricting some time ago.

What has Democrats worried is that, experts say, undoing reverse racial discrimination alone could cost liberals anywhere from a dozen seats to half of the entire congressional delegation.

“The honest range is twelve to twenty-one House seats — enough to bury the current Democrat edge from California, Virginia (if it lives), and Utah and salt the earth besides,” writes at The American Thinker.

But the number could be even higher than that—much higher.

“Racially gerrymandered districts account for 148 seats in the House of Representative,” writes David Catron at The American Spectator, “and 122 of them are held by Democrats — more than half of their 212 seats.”

Either way, erasing racial discrimination will likely increase Republicans’ current four-seat majority. And it will help offset the 36 Republicans who have decided not to run for reelection this year.

Democrats know this, and they’re shaking in their loafers.

Senator Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., said the justices “poured fuel on this redistricting arms race”—and he knows Democrats are running out of ammunition.

Many of his colleagues have gone ballistic. The current chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., admitted the ruling is “devastating.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., called the Callais decision “totally despicable” before he screamed, “In the new Congress, we are going to have to do something about this Supreme Court—and let me be clear, everything is on the table. Everything, to deal with this corrupt MAGA majority.”

Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan promised to “impeach these corrupt justices,” while Democratic strategist James Carville increasing the Supreme Court to 13.

Conservatives point out an added bonus: Not only does this ruling get rid of Democrats, but it lets red states purge the dumbest, most liberal Democrats.

Which Democrats hold their seats thanks to racial partisanship?

Think of names like Hank Johnson, who worried that the island of Guam might “tip over and capsize.” Or Maxine Waters, the recently arraigned Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, or former democratic socialist member Cori Bush.

“The Congressional Black Caucus has been the repository of crooks, dopes, communists, and reprobates on a scale unmatched by any other,” says Scott McKay at The American Spectator.

One of those seats belongs to Rep. Al Green of Texas, has also introduced multiple bills to impeach President Trump since January 20, 2025.

The president knows if Democrats return to power, his presidency is effectively over…and it may be over officially.

“You’ve gotta win the midterms,” Trump told congressional Republicans in January, or “I’ll get impeached.”

The 45th and 47th president has now been spared all that—thanks to two of his top Republican enemies.

The history boggles the mind.

In 2024, nobody took more abuse from President Trump than DeSantis, his top GOP presidential primary opponent.

As The Horn reported, the Florida governor spent most of the last year stirring up internal party division against the president.

But in 2026, DeSantis may have pulled President Trump’s second term out of the fire with a little help from John Roberts, a Republican who genuinely hates the president

The biggest variable is whether Republicans can motivate their own voters this November. If not, Trump may have dug a hole even a totally unified Republican Party can’t pull him out of.

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”