Iowa poll shows Florida gov closing the gap on Trump after first Republican debate

Fox News ^ | August 25, 2023 | Houston Keene

[Golden Eagle]

Donald Trump remains on top of the polls among Republican presidential candidates, but the gap between the former president and his onetime political protégé could be narrowing following the first GOP debate.

A new poll from Public Opinion Strategies — a polling firm working for the DeSantis' campaign — shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis closing in on Trump among Iowa voters.

The poll, obtained by Fox News Digital, interviewed 400 Iowa likely GOP caucus-goers and included a ballot test that saw DeSantis rise from 14% support up to 21% post-debate.

Trump slid by one percentage point, from 42% to 41%.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley also saw a large bump in the polls, rising from 3% support to 11% post-debate, while South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott slid from 8% to 7%.

Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy saw the largest slide, dropping from 10% support to 7%. Former Vice President Mike Pence remained at 2% in the poll.

[TomGuy]

Trump slid 1 point, so DeSantis has to be taking points away from some of the other 7 wannabes — and they didn’t have much even before the debate.

[tomkat]

  Hopium™

[JonPreston]

Absolutely. You do that. But remember, Trump is a victim of Lawfare and his crime is objecting to voting irregularities. Meatball OTOH, has been exposed as a seedy Neocon, pushed forward by the forces that Trump is fighting.

[Candor7]

Fox News?

They are all in for DeSantis. They dislike Trump.

I pay no attention to the Faux push polls.

DeSantis made a miserable showing at that first debate. His half smile made him look like Alfred E Newman.Even with questions designed by the Fox moderators to favor DeSantis, he could not get it together.

Nikki Haley made DeSantis look like a mere piker.

DeSantis should just drop out, he is not ready to be POTUS, he ran too early and should have waited for 2028.He is not even in the same league as Nikki Haley.

[DoughtyOne]

Is the RNC paying any more than it did in 2020 & 2016?

[Owen]

Minimum qualifications for president.

That they have nearly no years in politics.

Everything simplifies when you reject the Swamp.

[MinorityRepublican]

We'll see challengers drop out and then consolidate behind DeSantis.

Go DeSantis!

[Kazan]

That DeSantis is behind by 20 points in his own state is absolutely embarrassing and should be proof to anyone with half a brain he can’t win anywhere.

[Kazan]

Trump 9 points below 50%. Sad.

What's sad about it? That he's ahead of the boy wonder by 20 points in his own states demonstrates what a pathetic candidate DeSantis is.

If DeSantis is ahead in Florida, there is no reason to believe he could win anywhere else.

DeSantis needs to have some self-respect and drop out of the race.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Public Opinion Strategies — a polling firm working for the DeSantis' campaign

Nuff said. Trump is more popular than evah! (Iowa Native)

[pkajj]

“Heck, Ronald Reagan LOST in the 1980 Iowa Caucuses, and he actually lived and worked in Iowa (was a radio announcer in Des Moines back in the day)! But, Ronald Reagan was divorced and was a democrat in his youth, so the Churchianity types didn’t like that”.

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I agree evangelicals play a prominent role in the Iowa GOP caucus every four years. Your theory on why Reagan lost is off base. I watched that set of events unfold back in the day. Reagan had nearly snatched he GOP nomination away from Gerald Ford in 1976, so going into 1980 he considered his nomination to be inevitable (sound familiar?), and so he opted not to participate in a crucial debate leading up to the Iowa caucus.

On caucus night, he was dumbfounded when GHW Bush cleaned his clock in Iowa, famously spouting he now had “Big Mo” on his side.

To his credit, Reagan sprinted to New Hampshire where he arranged for his own debate. Bush agreed to debate, but only if it was limited to he and Reagan. Without notice, Reagan brought other candidates in, and Bush whined. The moderator attempted to turn off Reagan’s mic, when Reagan famously shouted “I am paying for this microphone, Mr. Green!” Shortly thereafter, Reagan buried the field in New Hampshire and sprinted to the nomination, and ultimately the Presidency.

[Fledermaus]

Polls are for idiots. Exit polls are for morons.

[JayGalt]

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/630922-clear-winner-post-debate-poll-points-to-ron-desantis-iowa-bump/

This poll is hysterical. The conclusions are completley at odd with any other assessment of the “debate”.

It’s perhaps an unintended irony that the Desantis polling company is known as POS. POS (@POStrategies) / X

[JayGalt]

Former President Donald Trump’s support went unchanged after he skipped the matchup: He remains backed by 58% of the party’s potential electorate — maintaining his 44-percentage-point lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie each saw their support increase by 1 point, within the margin of error of the pre- and post-debate surveys.

Surveys conducted Aug. 18-20, 2023, and Aug. 24, 2023, among at least 1,256 potential Republican primary voters, with an unweighted margin of error of up to +/-3 percentage points.

[JayGalt]

https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/first-gop-primary-debate-poll

[EastTexasTraveler]

Wow! President Trump slid from 42% all the way down to 41%!

[CAluvdubya]

HAHAHAHAHA

[Golden Eagle]

Surveys conducted Aug. 18-20, 2023

The debate was on the 23rd, FYI.

[StrictConstructionist]

Ha, ha, ha.

Quite an imagination.

[b4me]

Ron still needs to stand out in the dreaming field a lot longer, and still likely come up way short.