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Ron DeSantis's top 10 nearest neighbors are dominated by TV personalities and journalists, not fellow politicians — a cross-kind pattern that defines the shape of this audience.
The scores span a narrow band from 0.92 down to 0.88, consistent with the flat shape classification: no single neighbor pulls far ahead of the rest. Rep. Matt Gaetz is the closest match at 0.92, and he is one of only two Politicians in the set — Marco Rubio at 0.89 is the other. The remaining eight neighbors are drawn from TV Personalities and Journalists. TV Personalities account for five slots: Judge Napolitano (0.89), Eric Bolling (0.89), Greg Gutfeld (0.88), Monica Crowley (0.88), and Jesse Watters (0.88). Journalists fill two more: Gregg Jarrett (0.89) and Harris Faulkner (0.88). Kurt Schlichter (0.88), categorized as an Author, rounds out the ten.
The cluster points toward a right-leaning cable news and commentary ecosystem. The audience that follows DeSantis looks, in composition, more like the audience for Fox News-adjacent TV personalities and opinion journalists than like the audience for politicians as a class — with Gaetz and Rubio as the only exceptions in the top 10.
This flat, media-heavy neighbor set suggests an audience shaped as much by a particular media environment as by electoral politics.
