Why am I thinking of this guy?
Posted on 01/13/2023 5:31:37 AM PST by Drew68
Florida Gov. DeSantis is emerging as a bigger potential threat to President Biden than former President Trump, polls indicate.
Though he’s not as well-known to voters overall, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is emerging as a bigger potential threat to President Joe Biden than former President Donald Trump, according to a new nationwide poll conducted for the conservative Club for Growth.
The poll shows Trump losing to Biden 41-48% — an 8-percentage point disadvantage for the Republican that’s outside the poll’s 3-point error margin. But in a head-to-head matchup against DeSantis, Biden gets 42% of the theoretical vote compared to 45% for the Florida governor, which is essentially a statistical tie, the online survey of 1,035 voters from WPA Intelligence shows.
The poll follows a Suffolk University survey last month that also showed DeSantis marginally beating Biden.
To test people’s knowledge of the candidates, WPA Intelligence used a relatively novel approach in its survey by showing voters a picture of each of the three politicians and then asking respondents to either type the name of the man from memory or click an option acknowledging they didn’t know who they were. Both Biden and Trump were known to 98% of the electorate each; but only 64% knew who DeSantis was.
Yet despite that name ID deficit, the 44-year-old DeSantis still out-performed the 80-year-old Biden and the 76-year-old Trump.
“Of all the three candidates, DeSantis is the one who has room to grow … and yet he still has high favorable, he still beats Biden, whereas Trump loses to him,” David McIntosh, the president of the Club for Growth, told NBC News. “As more people start to recognize DeSantis, his face, there’s a lot of upside for him to grow and get stronger.”
The club used to be allied with Trump...
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Totally irrelevant drivel
As if anyone would consider as accurate a political poll reported by NBC involving Trump’s popularity among voters, or Biden’s for that matter.
There is nothing notable in an NBC push poll.
Nothing.
Uh huh. I remember when Saddam Hussein got 110% of the vote too!!
WATCH OUT...this is NBC... They always try to pick our candidates.
The lower name recognition is why he’s doing better!
Nonsense.
Psychologically, voters choose a non threatening choice over a risky choice that promises new success. Who appears safest generally wins. Trump was the less risky choice in 2016 as everyone knew Clinton is evil.
Trump is no longer viewed as non risky.
Gee...Wonder who commissioned that poll.
Feh...
Fiction.
Don’t trust the Club for Growth on anything.
well. we can’t indict trump for the classified documents anymore... so let’s just say he is less likely to beat biden and leave it at that.
Pure propaganda! Read at your own risk!
Biden will not be the Dem nominee.
You’re too kind...
Why am I thinking of this guy?
Trump is no longer viewed as non risky.
Trump won in 2016 because millions of independent, moderate, and swing voters held their noses and voted for him because they loathed Hillary even more.
I think the only chance Trump has at winning in 2024 is if the Democrats are dumb enough to put Kamala Harris on the top of the ticket. We'd see a repeat of 2016.
Other than this, Trump has no path to the White House in 2024.
Keep dreaming Drew.
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