If you look at most polls, Trump and DeSantis are both equal and within the margin of error with Biden.
Which gives absolutely no reason to choose Desantis.
Desanitis entire messaging is just laughably pathetic.
If he is going to claim he’s more electable, he can’t be polling at the same level... which actually he’s polling and has been polling behind Trump for nearly 5 months now vs Biden.
Desantis is a non starter, odds are better than 50/50 at this point he’ll drop out before 3/19/2024, rather than face the humiliation of being clobbered in the primary in his home state while he is the sitting governor... that is of course if he doesn’t run out of money well before then.
He’s already tanking to 3rd place in many state level polls, and his money is drying up and its still 6 months before the Iowa caucuses and 7 months before any votes get cast...
Desantis is a non starter... the “electability” argument is the last refuge of the establishment/uniparty/globalist hack... They pushed this crap to build him up, and back in Jan or so, folks bought it... they projected onto him things that just weren’t there... then something happened... they actually got to see him, and he’s got the Hillary problem... the more he’s seen, the lower he polls.
Desantis won’t get 10% of the GOP primary vote when its all said and done, but he’s going to win a national general election? The entire proposition is just flat out ludicrous.
If you look at the morning consult poll, you’ll see the reality...
If Desantis were to drop out of the race, 44% of his supporters today would move to Trump... If Trump were to drop out of the race, just 36% of his supporters would support Desantis.
Desantis is an absolute non starter in a national election... the narrative he would do better than Trump against Biden is just not true.. it’s a narrative being pushed by the usual suspects, but its not backed up by the facts.
The simple reality is this...
Trump, was the nominee as of 1/7/2020 as long as he decided to run... Had he decided not to run then we would be having a completely different conversation.. but he did, and as such he’s the nominee, and he’s going to be the nominee by well over 60% of the primary votes casts... in fact, he won’t likely lose a single state...
The reality is, everyone in this race who isn’t named Trump, is fighting for what will at most be 35% (if that) of the vote, doesn’t matter if there is 1 or 20 of them running the pool they have to divide up is 35% of the primary vote or less. There is no math were Desantis, or anyone else is going to beat Trump.
To promote the idea, that anyone who can’t beat Trump in the primary, is then going to be a better general election candidate is just flat out laughable. I can’t win my own parties voters, but somehow, miraculously, I’m going to win everyone else... This is just flat out garbage, and it’s the same old tired playbook the establishment wheels out anytime the rabble aren’t behaving trying to scare them back on the farm.