I wonder how much is a conflict between high-level strategy/marching orders and the sympathies by the individual Fox-droids, and how much is that the transition from Trump to DeSantis necessarily involves not alienating Trump voters, so they have to pretend that’s not what’s happening.* Because it really does seem like, overall, Fox is done with Trump, seeing him as a loser compared with DeSantis, who they see as a smarter version of Trump.
*DeSantis himself is releasing truly bizarre videos that are all about how much he loves Trump, even as he seeks to dethrone him. You’d think they were weird comedy if you didn’t know better.