Posted on 09/03/2023 1:28:22 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Rupert Murdoch has big sad as his Wall Street Journal outlet admits their poll looks terrible for Ron DeSantis. [WSJ HERE] Currently with only 13% support, DeSantis’s position has collapsed since April, when WSJ showed 24% backed him.
Additionally, Chris Christie and Mike Pence are the two candidates with the highest unfavorable rating by Republican voters, -73% and -63% respectively. Respondents show their opinion worsening mostly due to Christie and Pence position against frontrunner Donald Trump.
It looks like the Wall Street and RNC Big Club donors are now eyeing Nikki “test the wind” Haley, as the best option to try and stop Godzilla Trump. This shift likely explains why DeSantis’s campaign operative Jeff Roe was begging donors for another $50 million last week, as discovered in leaked audio from meetings with them during the high-brow events in Wisconsin.
Wall Street Journal – […] At 13% support, DeSantis’s position has collapsed since April, when 24% backed him in a slightly different field of candidates tested by the Journal.
GOP primary voters believe businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and former Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, far more than any other candidates, exceeded expectations in the televised Aug. 23 GOP debate among eight of Trump’s rivals. But those impressions so far haven’t turned into significant ballot support, with Haley the first choice of 8% and Ramaswamy at 5%.
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who has cast himself as an affable warrior for conservative causes, has made little headway after three months of campaigning, drawing 2% support.
Republicans nationally are rejecting the candidates who most sharply criticize Trump: Former Govs. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas drew 3% and 1% support, respectively. Christie is the most unpopular GOP candidate tested, with 73% holding an unfavorable view of him.
The image of former Vice President Mike Pence, who turned aside Trump’s request to block Congress from certifying the 2020 vote, has tarnished among primary voters. In April, 54% viewed him favorably. Now, 30% view him favorably, and 63% have an unfavorable view. He’s the choice of 2% for the party nomination.
“DeSantis collapsed,” said Bocian. “The one candidate who back in April really seemed to be a potential contender, seemed to have a narrative to tell, has totally collapsed, and those votes went to Trump.” (read more)
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Last point… Watch Noem. 👀
Originally the Sea Island group had a DeSantis/Noem ticket as their best outcome. Noem now looks to be positioning herself as the 2024 Mike Pence VP option.
Remember, whoever is VP in 2024 will likely be the nominee in 2028. The Big Club always plays the long game.
Stay elevated.
Stay unemotional.
Stay strategic in outlook.
McConnell will not last. South Dakota Senator John Thune will replace him.
Thune and Noem, compatriots from South Dakota, would have a Koch inspired nudge-nudge/wink-wink outlook to undermine Trump policy agenda 2025 through 2029.
Accept things as they are, not as we would wish them to be. This is a generational battle. We didn’t get into this mess in one election cycle, and we are not going to get ourselves out of this mess in one election cycle.
For the first time since our fireworks at Mount Rushmore, President @realDonaldTrump will be returning to South Dakota next week!
We’re excited to welcome him back to the best state in America to live, work, and raise a family. pic.twitter.com/IXWuKBN863
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) September 1, 2023
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Newsmax Kelly says info will drop before Halloween that will end Biden.
DeSantis leaned out looked around at the other debaters to see how they were answering before timidly raising his hand to answer some quedhion- woul you vote got the nominee shyer it would Trump or not or something.
That lost the 2024 as well as the 2028 for him. And beyond. As if he was ever a contendor
Please.
“Newsmax Kelly says info will drop before Halloween that will end Biden.”
What kind of a Sdaffy Duck warning is that? The Biden camp is going to let that happen with two months to spare?
The idiocy!
Somehow I think the race is a lot closer than these fake polls are showing. Once the primaries start and real people head to the polls the race will tighten
looks like that hot air balloon has popped for good.
Mr. “Looking for consensus before I raise my hand” doesn’t stand a chance. He blew it in the debate. Good governor, but bad POTUS candidate.
Poor Rupert.
Gone are the days when ridding the GOPe of an embarrassing populist like a Fred Thompson or a Herman Cain (God rest their souls) was as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.
With Trump, everything Rupert tries seems to just blow up in his face ( ala. Wile E. Coyote).
Trump is killing the GOP, and it’s wonderful!
Total BS
Agreed. Unironically, that may well prove to be Trump's greatest contribution to American politics. DeSantis's collapse is the potential tell here: voters who lean Right are finished with pols who need to pay people to tell them how to behave in public.
For all I know, DeSantis may well be a good governor, and perhaps even a good man. But he's shit politician and deserves to be kicked to the electoral curb. If he doesn't believe in himself enough to just be himself on the campaign trail, why should anyone else believe in him?
Increasingly, people on the Right seem to be done with inauthenticity in their elected leaders. As bad as Trump is (and he is bad, terrible even, in certain very important respects) at least he is what he is. The rest of these idiots on the GOP Hollywood Squares are straight-fire losers.
DeSantis should finish his term as governor, at which he has been particularly effective. His presidential bid was premature at the least.
Has it ever crossed Murdoch’s mind that his pushing and financing Disantis might be a big turnoff to many people? I’m joined at the hip with Trump. But if I weren’t, the Murdoch family would ALL turn me away from whomever they were flacking for.
So well said. I agree 100%, and this collapse has been a long time coming. The Republican Keebler Elves running in this primary are grifters, CONservatives, career politicians, where if it wasn’t for feeding off the public teat, they’d be qualified as 3rd shift managers at the local Mini Mart. I want to see them all in pain when this mess goes under, even if it means short-term pain for many decent folks. This GOP is so corrupt, it isn’t salvageable. (this goes double for the Ds)
But Faux News said Ronnie won.
Paul Ryan is being treated for depression at a GOPe nursing home as we speak.
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