desantis can't have a public rally in florida anymore - he'd get booed out of the place for lying about running for re-election as governor and being a Jeb2.0.
People are begining to see how he's all smoke and mirrors....
Oh yeah.....and of course
the desantis supporter "you just wait, desantis isn't running yet! he'll show you then how well he does!"
is now
the desantis supporters "just wait till the primaries, then desantis will blow away Trump"
A few people like us predicted that once people realized the 2022 reelection bid of Ron DeSantis was a con, there was a strong probability he would lose support. According to polling taken after his launch, that’s exactly what happened.
There are two different YouGov polls.
One that shows opinion of the DeSantis launch
and one that shows the results of the head-to-head Trump -v- DeSantis matchup
The bottom line is that DeSantis has lost ground with voters AFTER his launch.
WASHINGTON – Ron DeSantis was surely hoping for a bump from his presidential campaign launch last week. But a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows no sign of improvement.
In fact, the survey of 1,520 U.S. adults, which was conducted from May 25-30, suggests that the Florida governor may have actually lost ground against frontrunner and former President Donald Trump since officially entering the race for the 2024 GOP nomination during a glitchy Twitter Spaces event with the platform’s billionaire owner Elon Musk.
Among potential Republican primary voters — registered voters who identify as Republicans or GOP-leaning independents — Trump now leads the full field of seven declared candidates with 53%. That’s up from 48% in early May, before DeSantis threw his hat in the ring. And DeSantis now lags further behind than he did just a few weeks ago; his 25% is down from 28% in early May. (read more)
When asked how the DeSantis launch went, 48% said badly, 24% said well. 31% were not sure.
[Economist – YouGov pdf LINK]
FLORIDA – The Florida Governor’s glitch-filled kickoff on Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk left a bad impression with 1,500 U.S. adult citizens surveyed by The Economist and You Gov between May 27 and May 31. Just 7% of those surveyed said the opening went “very well,” with another 17% venturing that it went “somewhat well.”
Meanwhile, 24% said it went “somewhat badly,” with an additional 21% saying it went “very badly,” putting the whole event 21 points underwater. Another 31% of respondents were “not sure” how it went for the Governor. (read more)
The situation is actually worse than described by the media. Candidate Ron DeSantis cannot hold a public event in the state of Florida, because most of the people who support him are the isolated group immediately around him, and the Selfie-My-Lunch crowd who are disconnected from the average life of a Floridian.
Have you ever heard of a presidential candidate launching a campaign and NOT holding a public event in his/her home state to do it? Most people are overlooking the obvious. His handlers cannot run the risk of a public event for their principal. What does that tell you about the candidate?
Everything, and I do mean everything, about the Ron DeSantis 2024 campaign is manufactured, fake and phony – especially the claimed support that you see pushed by national media and the right-wing alt-media that are placing their bets to be paid by the massive financial mechanism behind the DeSantis management team. Floridians can see through it, and the handlers were hoping the sunlight did not spread to Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
In the state of Florida, support for Ron DeSantis 2024 is maybe in the 15 to 20% range (I’m being generous). Beyond that, he is not liked at all. I travel the state talking to blue collar ordinary people all the time; there is no grassroots support for the fraud that DeSantis has perpetrated on the state. This announcement has left him naked to the realization of his character as a raw political opportunist.
We are now seeing the same negative results spread nationally.
One of the optimistic aspects to U.S. politics, especially in this era of institutional deceit, is the ability of the average person to detect fraud and a lack of authenticity. It’s one of the reasons why I will never count out the ability of the American people to overcome severe institutional gaslighting.
At an intrinsic DNA level, the average American can sense when something is not right, something is amiss, something is sketchy. Always trust your instincts, especially when dealing with the manufactured nonsense that flows from the constructs of the Sea Island billionaire class.
On another optimistic note, think about how much time, effort and money was put into this operation by the billionaire donors.
Many of them will now be asking, ‘what’s next’?
