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Down but not out: Trump would hammer DeSantis if primary poll were held today, Harvard poll claims, with ex-president 20 POINTS ahead of rising star Florida governor
Daily Mail ^ | PAUL FARRELL

Posted on 01/21/2023 5:30:47 PM PST by SoConPubbie

Ex-president Donald Trump would easily beat off the challenge of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a Republican primary if it were to be held today, a new poll shows.

The poll, from Harvard CAPS-Harris, and published by The Hill, shows that just under half of GOP voters would favor Trump in the primary.

The former host of The Apprentice would have 48 percent of the vote, giving him a 20 point advantage over DeSantis, considered by many to be the rising star of the Republican party.

Trump's poll numbers have also risen by three per cent in the last month, despite him facing a slew of investigations, and questions as to why the candidates he backed in midterms flopped against their Democrat rivals.

The also-rans in the poll were Trump's former VP Mike Pence, who garnered seven percent, while Florida Senator Marco Rubio and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley received just three percent respectively.

The poll, from Harvard CAPS-Harris, and published by The Hill, shows that just under half of GOP voters would favor Trump in the primary

Polling from late last year showed that DeSantis was eating into Trump's popularity, that bump appears to have fizzled


(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: trump; trump2024
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1 posted on 01/21/2023 5:30:47 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

HELLO! DeSantis hasn’t declared anything yet. Then check the polls.


2 posted on 01/21/2023 5:35:20 PM PST by Pirate Ragnar (Be calm and act.)
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To: SoConPubbie

There sure are a lot of polls lately how Trump would slaughter Desantis, but JoeTatoe would slaughter Trump. Yet Desantis would take out JoeTatoe. Pure manipulative BS Polling.


3 posted on 01/21/2023 5:38:21 PM PST by DAC21
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To: DAC21

Harvard and The Hill would NEVER try to manipulate anyone, would they!?


4 posted on 01/21/2023 5:42:08 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Pirate Ragnar

DeSantis is not the enemy… The Democrats are the enemy.


5 posted on 01/21/2023 5:46:56 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: SoConPubbie
I've been trying out an A.I. image generator today. I wondered what it would come up with if I just fed the entire titles of free republic threads into it. It's bizarre!

It's generating a smooth composite image from the vast image data available on the net.. a kaleidoscopic dump of data and styles.

Here's the one the title of this thread generated.


6 posted on 01/21/2023 5:48:26 PM PST by Bobalu (Elon should buy the Washington Post—and turn it into a newspaper.)
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To: Bobalu

Drugs are bad, m’kay?


7 posted on 01/21/2023 5:49:32 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NFHale
Agreed, my FRiend.

We Conservatives all have much to learn between now and the 24 primaries.

I lean DeSantis at this point, however whomever wins the GOP primary gets my EARLY vote.

8 posted on 01/21/2023 5:49:55 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: SoConPubbie

Every election going back decades the media have tried to promote the GOP candidate that who is the weakest. (With some success)
Dole, McCain, Romney, Bush over Reagan….etc.
Even Trump was promoted by the media during the 2016 primary. (See Joe and Mika 2015-2016.
This proves to me they see DeSantis as a threat in 2024.


9 posted on 01/21/2023 5:51:13 PM PST by Gary from Dayton (Scary unvaccinated American )
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“Ex-president Donald Trump would easily beat off the challenge of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a....”

We’ve beat them off again, sir! (Plan 9 From Outer Space)


10 posted on 01/21/2023 5:52:41 PM PST by Scarlett156 (In your daily prayers, remember to ask that #Justice find N*ncy P3losi sooner rather than later.)
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To: SoConPubbie; heavy metal; Joe Brower

Another reason why DeSantis should stay in Florida and continue to be our great governor.


11 posted on 01/21/2023 5:53:26 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: SoConPubbie
Trump 48 percent

Still not even 50%, with no one else even declared, and him being the former President. Looks like a proverbial ceiling, honestly.

12 posted on 01/21/2023 5:57:55 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who follows it.)
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To: Bobalu

Wild!


13 posted on 01/21/2023 5:58:22 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: SoConPubbie

This Trump vs. DeSantis thing is going to get a lot of play; it’s all to make us think that voting still matters. Just voot harder!


14 posted on 01/21/2023 5:58:28 PM PST by cdcdawg (Hoes mad! LOL! )
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To: Bobalu
Those faces be like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8k_P7vtcM

15 posted on 01/21/2023 6:00:50 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Golden Eagle
Looks like a proverbial ceiling, honestly.

uh-huh.

Keep hoping!

DeSanctimonious is going nowhere!
16 posted on 01/21/2023 6:01:06 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump needs to realize that he is losing support in the Christian and the Prolife community and remedy it now.

Trump said that recent MAGA candidates lost their race because their prolife stance was too rigid. His suggestion was to add exceptions forlegal abortions such as rape and incest.

A better approach would be to add continual care for Mom and baby in all difficult pregnancies.

Trump’s other guffaw was to join the Log Cabin celebration of gay marriage at Mar a Lago.

I think respect for gay people flies with the prolife and Christian voters, but celebrating what does not exist for these same voters won’t sit well. Thrump has some thinking to do.


17 posted on 01/21/2023 6:12:24 PM PST by amihow (It is Western Civilization that confers privilege, not whiteness. Ask Carson, MLK, Sowell.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Again, stop going by wide-open primaries with 10 candidates. Head to head is what really counts.

Misleading.


18 posted on 01/21/2023 6:14:55 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DM)
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To: SoConPubbie

I THINK DeSantis made a mistake (if he wants to be President) by accepting that 10 million dollar donation from Robert Bigelow. He sold his soul right there just like Kristi Noem sold out to Sanford Health.

The one thing we all love about Trump is NOBODY OWNS HIM!


19 posted on 01/21/2023 6:17:23 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Jet Jaguar
I had it generate a few hundred images with the phrase "Free Republic comic book cover" and the results are amazing!

Then I had it generate from "free republic meme" and the results were astounding!

And here is one of the memes, the web must think FR is strange to generate this as a meme..


20 posted on 01/21/2023 6:18:55 PM PST by Bobalu (Elon should buy the Washington Post—and turn it into a newspaper.)
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