Posted on 06/24/2023 6:29:35 PM PDT by TBP
the Trump campaign needs to be aware of an emerging thread of data that suggests that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may do better in the general election.
New survey results from Public Opinion Strategies build on previous results and are starting to frame a coherent story about how the general election might look with different Republican candidates.
The new survey results indicate that Mr. DeSantis would do better than Mr. Trump in the general election in specific battleground states. For example, in Georgia, Mr. DeSantis leads President Biden by 3 percentage points in a general election matchup.
In the same matchup, Mr. Trump loses Georgia to Mr. Biden by 3 points.
In Pennsylvania, Mr. DeSantis runs 2 points better than Mr. Biden while Mr. Trump runs 4 points behind Mr. Biden.
Back in April, Mr. Trump trailed Mr. Biden in Pennsylvania by the same 4 percentage points. Mr. DeSantis led Mr. Biden in Pennsylvania by 3 points.
In Arizona, the current spread between the candidates appears greater. Mr. DeSantis runs 6 points better than Mr. Biden while Mr. Trump runs 3 points behind the president. That is also a greater margin than was evident in polling done in April.
Those results indicated that Mr. DeSantis would defeat Mr. Biden nationally by 3 percentage points while Mr. Trump would lose nationally by 3 percentage points — the same margin by which he lost in 2020.
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Baris debunked these polls
Public Opinion Strategies is comprised of DeSantis’ pollsters.
These are push polls!
It’s going to be damn near impossible for Trump or any Republican to win. Nothing has been done about the systems they used to win last time
Nah. DeSantis is spoiled milk even now, well past his sell by date. The more one sees of him, the less likable and palatable he becomes. Moreover, his performative woke culture war sponsored by Con, Inc. and its organs (TPUSA, Real Daily Wire), will have long been lost- frankly, well past redemption even now- the same parties heralding this war also promoted the disastrous homosexual and sexdeviant tolerance that led to this. Meatball is a spoiler- nothing more- a bland and colorless factotum elevated far above his natural station at the behest of evil Uniparty establishment tyrants. He will never be nominee nor President- thanks be to heaven.
If Trump picks another go along to get along like pence that cements my belief that he has learned nothing from his prior awful pics
9k, deadender.
Please clarify.
Correct There is no way in hell the swamp will ever let him win. Unfortunately I don’t believe they’ll let anybody we want as president win again. We are likely going to have to focus on getting control of states legislatures and governorships to reverse these god-awful laws that the Democrats use to harvest and ballet stuff. Until we get that under control they will continue to cheat
The MAGA Movement must survive Trump. We are in a lukewarm Civil War anyway, we may not get to 28.
Any of the 3 you mentioned on the Democrat side will win against anyone the republicans put up against them. 2020 and 2022 should have made that clear.
Trump was underestimated in 2016. They will never make that mistake again
Is that a riddle?
Why would it matter?
I don’t disagree. However, I think openly scheming creatures such as DeSantis, who so willingly became a tool of the enemy, are certainly not any solution. Even Massie, one of the only fedgov electeds I held in some esteem (Senator Tuberville has been unexpectedly excellent) has proven himself unworthy with his recent actions (and I understand his personal issues with Trump given the undeserved criticism, but doesn’t excuse his collusion). President Trump is a generational political figure with off the charts charisma; he revived a moribund and dying party (and it has been since I became a voter in 1995). If he does not win in 2024, there will be no republic as we knew it ever again. Any political actor who places their own ambition and ego above this reality is beneath contempt. Ron DeSantis is unacceptable now, and forever in future.
Re: 26 - it will be interesting to see the responses from some of the deep thinkers on this thread.
In my fairly wide network of friends, GOPers (previous Trump voters, all), and Indies ( roughly half Trump voters in 16) simply do not want Mister Trump to run again.
Much of it stems from tiredness of cringing at Mister Trumps lack of impulse control. These folks like quite a bit of what Trump did (not all, of course) but they want the same determination and pro-American policies from someone with enough character and wisdom that they can defend and respect.
The cringe, of course, keeps on coming. Imagine trying to decide for whom to vote in the GOP primary, and the loud candidate says such nonsensical, magical thinking things as he can end the Ukraine war in 24 hours.
Trump. His own worst enemy.
It’s almost like there was COVID and mail-in voting that made the 2020 presidential election have the highest turnout percentage since the 1900 one between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan.
There’s a reason beyond simple population growth that Joe Biden and Donald Trump hold the #1 and #2 records for most votes ever received from that same year.
Well, being that the GOP has been led by elite globalists for some time now, maybe DeSantis IS the genuine Republican in the race and TRUMP is the RINO. That’s all the more reason to vote for him.
He is not a tool of the enemy. The enemy is the left, and DeSantis is vowing to destroy them.
We are past the personality point now.
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