Posted on 09/22/2023 9:41:11 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
The survey, which examined the sentiments of 850 likely Republican primary voters in the Granite State, found former President Donald Trump as the dominant frontrunner, having a 28-point lead, garnering 42 percent support.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley came in second place with 14 percent, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie came in four points behind with ten percent support.
In this particular survey, DeSantis — who has failed to make a dent in Trump’s lead nationally or in individual states — fell to fourth place and is in single digits with eight percent support.
Anti-woke businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott tied with five percent support, followed by four percent who chose North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. The remaining candidates saw one percent support or less:
📊 2024 New Hampshire GOP Primary
• Trump — 42% (+28)
• Haley — 14%
• Christie — 10%
• DeSantis — 8%
• Scott — 5%
• Ramaswamy — 5%
• Burgum — 4%
• Hutchinson — 1%
• Johnson — 1%
• Pence — 1%@InsiderPolling | Sept. 20 | 850 LV https://t.co/BdwcWSLvUP— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) September 21, 2023
Insider Advantage reported that it is “becoming ironically clear that the 45th president has roughly a forty-five percent floor in this overall contest.” Further, this survey observed that Trump actually struggles the most with white men over the age of 65.
Per Insider Advantage: “We have seen this in numerous surveys and it certainly runs contrary to conventional wisdom. Ironically, men supply Nikki Haley with more support than do female respondents. Women support Trump in larger numbers than do male voters.”
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I’m obviously to the right of Trump, who isn’t at this point LOL, since he’s come clean as a Democrat especially on social issues. It’s just a matter of who is willing to give up their principles to support him or not. I’m not about to, he’s on his last legs anyway.
We have put up with your ridiculous TDS sh!t a long time. It was coordinated and started mysteriously the day of the mid-term. You all are paid trolls.
It is true that it was right at the midterms that I turned on Trump, but he fully deserved it. He ruined that election for us. He even tried to destroy my governor’s reelection here in Florida by attacking him on the eve of the election. Then he threw that gala at his resort celebrating the new gay marriage law. Adding all that to all the other ignorant things he had done going back to 2020, I decided to cut my ties. He’s only gone further left since then, with no end in sight.
Trump is risking everything and you sit here and bitch. GOP neo-Torys need to go away.
He was born a billionaire (in adjusted dollars) and will die a billionaire in the not too distant future, so spare me your tears about his sacrifice. What I care about are what are his principles, and what are his chances of being elected, and on those core concerns he doesn’t score high at all. Half of what he says isn’t true, he won’t even address the best conservative in the party by his name, and he looks up to totalitarians like Kim Jung Un and Putin as role models. He’s set a horrible example for our party to follow and history will not judge him well. His main contribution has been to define deviancy down, which seems to be his forte.
What turns me off most about DeoSanctus are the myopic and clueless supporters he appeals to.
If Trump had courage he’d be in DC every day instead of on some golf course. Out of all the countless houses he has, not one in DC. He’s scared of the place. He wants to stay up late playing DJ in his bars and be a keyboard warrior on the internet instead. Fine, whatever. But courage is volunteering for the military, and serving your commitment during a war, not asking for deferments when you get drafted.
He has the entire DOJ gunning for him. He is brave, extremely so.
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Let’s say Trump wins in 2024. Come 2028, then what?”
His Vice President.
Why I wish it had been DeSantis.
His name alone would capture Latinx...
And who would that be?
Pence was his VP, and he didn't turn out so good. You're assuming that Trump's next VP will be MAGA, which I think is overly optimistic.
Who would you pick for Trump's VP?
And what if Trump, once again, makes a poor choice. Then what?
Perhaps you need to examine your assumptions to understand DeSantis’ unpopularity. Millions will be spent in legal fees because of DeSantis’ precipitous and poorly orchestrated actions against Disney. Rather than having “won” against Disney, by grandstanding, DeSantis furnished Disney with arguments for Disney’s court actions against Florida. One of the strongest is evidence contained in DeSantis’ book that indicated the actions were a reprisal for political speech by Disney. That kind of reprisal is illegal.
Your Trump “quotes” are in accurate & out of context. Apparently many people add up the reversal of Roe v Wade & the return of the power to regulate abortion to the States as much more significant than a 6 week bill for one state that will be tested by legal actions.
DeSantis has not successfully addressed many issues in Florida that have worsened during his term: Under DeSantis, Florida has some of the highest health insurance premiums in the nation. 20% of Floridians lacked health insurance entirely — more than almost any other state and one of the worst states in the nation for child health care access. DeSantis failed to address the state’s unemployment system before the pandemic. When the crisis hit, it was Floridians who paid the price, unable to access earned benefits — or even get their phone calls answered by DeSantis’ bureaucracy.
Golden Buzzard,
What should Trump say about Gays?
That they should all be tied with their hands behind their backs and
pushed off tall buildings like Muslims do to gays.
He is NOT unpopular. Your assumptions are the ones that need to be examined.
Which he won. Disney has mostly backed off.
OK. All the polls are wrong even the ones showing Trump more popular in Florida than DeSantis..../s
And he is NOT grandstanding. He is protecting the interests of the people of his state and striking a blow against wokeism.
No. Disney has both federal & state cases in progress. Some of the actions were moved to the Federal case.
DeSantis-backed board will pay $6.5 million in legal fees as it battles Disney
The amount is more than triple what the district typically pays.New figures released Wednesday find the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District anticipates it’ll spend $4.5 million in legal fees in 2024, after already incurring $1.9 million in costs this year. The figures were presented as part of the district’s larger budget proposal led by Glen Gilzean, the district administrator.
The costs come as a result of dueling lawsuits between Walt Disney World and the board, whose members were hand-picked by DeSantis. The governor put new leaders in charge after the Walt Disney Co. publicly opposed a bill he signed into law limiting when and how educators can teach LGBTQ topics in public schools.
Disney sued in federal court in April, alleging retaliation against its right to speech, and the board filed a dueling lawsuit in state court.
Before the feud, the district spent roughly $1.25 million on legal fees, Gilzean said, calling the spending increase “regrettable” and “Disney-induced expenses.” Part of the increase in spending also comes as a result of board members seeking legal advice when they consider new governance policies, he said.
Gilzean also laid out $16 million in planned cuts as part of his presentation, largely achieved through cutting the millage rate, or tax rate, that’ll affect how much people and businesses pay in property taxes in the district. Due to higher property values, the move won’t necessarily reduce what area homeowners and businesses pay in property taxes but will keep the payments from going up next year as much as they otherwise would.
One of the more contentious budget items set to be excised was $2.5 million in Disney World perks for roughly 400 district employees, a tab the district picked up for decades. One firefighter who spoke during the public comment period in the meeting broke down in tears over the change, saying he otherwise couldn’t afford to take his family to the parks.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/23/disney-district-legal-fees-desantis-00112464
https://www.thestreet.com/travel/walt-disney-makes-a-strong-charge-against-desantis
I think you are buying the narrative.
BlogMickey, an online news outlet concentrating on the tourism industry in and around Orlando, did some research into the former RCID. Bottom line: Disney pays more than 85% of the taxes in the district. The vast majority of the remaining taxes paid to the CFTOD come from hotels
“Other taxpayers in the district include the Four Seasons hotel, Swan & Dolphin hotel, Hilton, Wyndham, and considerably smaller payers like Duke Energy and Sunbelt Rentals. Of the roughly $185 million in ad valorem taxes collected by the Reedy Creek Improvement District (now CFTOD) in 2022, Disney World paid more than $161 million of that. The next-closest taxpayer was the Four Seasons, which paid a hair over $5 million. Of the dozens and dozens of taxpayers, only eight (including Disney) paid more than $1 million,” the website reported.
So, while DeSantis board regularly cites its actions as being about saving taxpayers’ money, its taxpayers are basically Disney and companies that make their money supporting Disney on an overwhelming basis. Disney World will, in fact, pay more in taxes than this year because improvements at its theme parks added $2 billion to its assessed value.
In an 80-page Federal lawsuit filed in May, Disney has made it clear that DeSantis has been using his political power to single out and target the company.
“State leaders have not been subtle about their reasons for government intervention. They have proudly declared that Disney deserves this fate because of what Disney said. Indeed, just days ago, reaffirming the unequivocal intent of his retribution campaign and trumpeting its perceived success, Governor DeSantis openly celebrated: ‘Since our skirmish last year, Disney has not been involved in any of those issues. They have not made a peep,” the lawsuit reads.
“This is as clear a case of retaliation as this Court is ever likely to see,” the company added.
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