Palm Beach County Sheriff: In the bushes where this guy was is an AK-47 style rifle with a scope, two backpacks which were hung on the fence, that had ceramic tile in them, and a GoPro, which he was going to take pictures of.
Palm Beach County Sheriff: [President Trump] was probably between three and five hundred yards [from shooter], but with a rifle and a scope like that, that's not a long distance.
Palm Beach County Sheriff: The golf course is surrounded by shrubbery, so if somebody gets into the shrubbery, they're pretty much out of sight. At this level that he is at right now; he's not the sitting president. If he was, we would have had this entire golf course surrounded. But because he's not, security is limited to the areas the Secret Service deems possible.
DeSantis would be unsuccessful; the FBI has jurisdiction over assassination attempts on the president, which might explain why they were quick to call it an attempted assassination.