Posted on 07/24/2023 9:11:30 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
This poll seems to align with the previous forecast predictions. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has spent a great deal of time in South Carolina over the past two weeks. The result, he’s dropped from second to third place. The more voters get to see DeSantis, the lower his in-state polling becomes.
DISCLAIMER – South Carolina is an open primary, vulnerable to Big Club shenanigans.
President Trump has a clear lead in the Palmetto state at 48% according to the latest Fox (Shaw Research) poll [DATA HERE]. Nikki Haley has entered first loser position at 14%, followed closely by Ron DeSantis at 13% and Tim Scott at 10%.
Candidate I Don’t Know (4%) is now ahead of Mike Pence, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson. While Gas Station Sushi is polling ahead of Doug Burgum, Larry Elder, Will Hurd and Francis Suarez
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At 48%, President Donald Trump is 16 points higher in the polls than he was when he won the South Carolina primary in 2016.
NATIONAL OUTLOOK – The latest Harvard Harris national poll [DATA HERE] shows Donald Trump beating Joe Biden 45% to 39%, which includes President Trump holding a massive 18-point advantage with independent voters 45% to 27%.
Meanwhile the New York Times is reporting the controversial anti-Trump attack ad portraying Ron DeSantis as the slayer of the alphabet people was actually created by the campaign, likely inspired by the direction of Ms. Christina Pushaw who has been conspicuously quiet since the rebranding huggy phase began.
[…] One recent move that drew intense blowback, including from Republicans, was the campaign’s sharing of a bizarre video on Twitter that attacked Mr. Trump as too friendly to L.G.B.T.Q. people and showed Mr. DeSantis with lasers coming out of his eyes. The video drew a range of denunciations, with some calling it homophobic and others homoerotic before it was deleted.
But it turns out to be more of a self-inflicted wound than was previously known: A DeSantis campaign aide had originally produced the video internally, passing it off to an outside supporter to post it first and making it appear as if it was generated independently, according to a person with knowledge of the incident. The DeSantis campaign declined to comment on specific questions about its spending, the candidate’s travel and the video. (link)
The DeSantis campaign has turned to the Utah Mormon community looking for financial assistance.
Politico – Top officials on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign acknowledged to donors on Sunday that they’d spent too much money and that further changes would be made as they look to recover from a disappointing start, according to three people who were present for the discussion.
Appearing before around 70 of the campaign’s top contributors at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah, DeSantis’ campaign manager Generra Peck said money had been spent on operations that had turned out to be ineffective and that the campaign would move to a leaner, “insurgent” posture going forward. Among the changes being made were to “expose” voters to DeSantis more, said Nick Iarossi, a Florida-based lobbyist and fundraiser who was at the event. (read more)
The following picture shared to social media is apropos of the Ron Desantis Utah visit in a humorous Dennis Miller style of funny:
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“Candidate I Don’t Know (4%) is now ahead of Mike Pence, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson...”
Lol. Gotta love it
We can expect a 50-count indictment of Trump for jaywalking, obstructing traffic, littering, and public profanity any day now.
Ron’s Gate Cult hardest hit.
Trump needs to drop out of the race. For the good of our Republic. /s
New Trump indictment coming tomorrow.
For forgetting to zip up after peeing.
Funny that is what meatball was doing.
I wish you only Trumpers could see the damage y’all and the democrats are doing to conservatism.
By taking away any viable second option candidates, you leave the field wide open for just one man.
Who likely will campaign from jail.
(Yes, I know, You think that’s a great option.)
Gas Station Sushi was ahead of the REST of the pack!! HILARIOUS!!
You think that is the only option. It is not.
But more importantly, jail by the deep state is cred. I'll vote for him in jail.
“I wish you only Trumpers could see the damage y’all and the democrats are doing to conservatism.”
Doing to conservatism???
Since when has conservatism on its own did anything? I am more interested in saving the country than in conservatism. When you go to war to save the country, ideology falls by the wayside.
Trump has been the most conservative candidate since Reagan.
And no, he will not be going to jail. Or, if he does, you won’t have to wait for an election. The country is over as a republic where elections make a difference.
Except one candidate has won at least two elections and one candidate only won an election by 17,000 Votes and helped lose every election cycle since.
“Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has spent a great deal of time in South Carolina over the past two weeks. The result, he’s dropped from second to third place. “
primary voter dogs refusing to eat the food in south carolina ...
You get a kick out of losing election after election. Your next loss comes in Ohio on august 8th. I’m hoping we win since trump has stayed out of it. That’s the best case scenario.
tucker torpedoed both pence’s and hutchinson’s ships during his last week’s interviews ... well, they actually torpedoed themselves ...
Weird. Not a vote cast. And one point is noise.
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