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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Probably plays a part. Therefore the logical conclusion is that Biden and Trump have extremely high negatives, with Trump’s being the highest. Sounds about right, as Trump has probably done more to completely alienate some of his former supporters, than Biden has his, and Americans in general are ready to move on to some newer options.
>> “Trump without the baggage” <<
It’s fake baggage. Even Sam Brinton doesn’t accept it.
Yes, you are right. Total BS. President Trump stands for individual freedom and a strong America!
In appearance Biden is because of the bias of the media.
The current "document" storyline is very convenient for Rats wanting to dump Biden.
They showed them pictures of the three!
How low on the intelligence scale did they scrape to survey people who needed pictures to know who Biden, Trump and DeSantis were?
I guess that if only 64% knew who DeSantis is answers that question.
No doubt a lot of “takers” not “makers” were surveyed in favor of Ol’ Joe. “Keep the money coming!”
And so does Governor DeSantis who is actually DOING the things that Trump only tweeted about doing.
If look at the internals, it shows only Dominion Systems voting machines participated in that poll ...
Media simply trying to convince the troves to abandon Trump. All the other efforts haven’t worked.
There’s a rumor on the left that Susan Rice is behind all of this and the end-game is to get the Bidens, both Joe and Hunter, out of the picture for 2024. The Democrats need a strategy in the event that Trump is not the GOP nominee.
It is extremely unwise for DeSantis supporters to attack Trump and his supporters. We have long memories and we will remember.
Trump is doing a good enough job on his own, whittling down his base.
It really doesn’t matter because with mass mail in ballots there is no path for the GOP candidate electorally.
nbc never lies. nbc doesn’t hate America or Americans. Tired of my lies ?
It sounds like the pollsters have been hittin’ da happy smoke.
Biden could beat anyone with mail-in ballot voter fraud. It’s unfortunate that the conservative media and RNC support it.
If De Santis wins the Presidency, you’re going to see him follow the orders of the Open Borders, One World-er, WEF and Club for Growth stooges that PUT HIM THERE.
Put your money on that.
MAGA!
I think hillary should give it another try.
DeSantis is anti-WEF https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ron-desantis-flames-davos-jetsetters-technocratic-elites-fiery-inauguration-speech
Trump is a WeF Agenda Contributor
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