Posted on 11/15/2023 8:32:48 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), originally perceived as the toughest Republican primary challenger to former President Donald Trump, is falling from grace in key battleground states such as New Hampshire, with more candidates ahead of him in the polls than just Trump.
A new poll from 7News/Emerson College released on Wednesday found that 7% of voters would support DeSantis in the 2024 GOP primary, a significant decline from polling at 17% in March. Even former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has maintained relatively low polling numbers in most GOP battleground states, has surpassed DeSantis, with 9% of voters stating they would support the former New Jersey governor in the primary.
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Christie's popularity in New Hampshire has largely remained the same over the last few months, as he received 9% and beat DeSantis for second place among contestants in the state in August. However, DeSantis's gradual decline into single-digit polling behind Christie adds to a growing list of signs for the Florida governor that his campaign may be too far gone.
Considered a long-shot candidate, Christie has been scraping by in the polls, just managing to reach the donor and polling requirements to appear at the three Republican National Committee debates. DeSantis, who has comfortably managed to meet the RNC's requirements, is appearing to lose the momentum he built in his campaign's early efforts to trouble Trump. At the time, strategists, lawmakers, and voters predicted DeSantis might give the former president something to worry about.
Now, strategists and polls indicate that former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has taken the mantle from DeSantis as the most viable candidate to defeat Trump in the Republican primary, polling at second place in most early primary states. Of the non-Trump GOP presidential candidates, Haley is the only one who has experienced a sharp incline in popularity in New Hampshire. She went from 6% in March to 4% in August, shooting up to 18% in Wednesday's poll.
“For the last year, we’ve been looking at Ron DeSantis/Donald Trump race, and now it looks like Nikki Haley is the alternative instead of Ron DeSantis at this point,” said Spencer Kimball, 7News/Emerson College pollster. “You know, about a year ago, Ron DeSantis was at 17%. Now he’s down to 7%. And when we look at a candidate like Nikki Haley, since August, she’s gone from 4% up to 18%."
A hypothetical matchup between President Joe Biden and the Republican candidates is also telling as to which GOP nominee could fare the best against the Democratic president. Between Biden and DeSantis in New Hampshire, the president leads 46% to 38%, with 17% undecided.
Among the GOP candidates, Trump has the closest lead to Biden in New Hampshire, with Biden at 47% and the former president at 42%. But when third-party candidates Cornel West and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are added, the race tightens, with 40% supporting Biden and 37% supporting Trump.
Haley is the only Republican whom Emerson College found would beat Biden in a head-to-head contest in the state, 45% to 39%. The former U.N. ambassador has recently begun poaching donors from her Republican rivals, luring in 250 contributors who donated at least $200 to other Republican campaigns, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of campaign finance records.
In DeSantis's case, Haley had 87 new contributors to her campaign in the third quarter who previously gave at least $200 to the Florida governor. On the other side, DeSantis's campaign lost significantly more donors to other campaigns in the third quarter than it poached.
“Yet another poll showing Nikki Haley is the best challenger to beat both Donald Trump and Joe Biden," Ken Farnaso, spokesman for Haley, said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. "She is second in New Hampshire, Iowa, and South Carolina and is the only candidate with upward momentum. Voters are rallying to Nikki’s strength and toughness while others continue to sink in the polls.”
If Phat Mann is beating DeSantis, his departure is near
Haley’s advocation for lack of anonymity on social media isn’t some doomsday thing honestly.... highly doubt that is going anywhere...
If Haley needs to be done, it should be for advocating bring palestinians to US shores...
Fact she has advocated that should have tanked her instantly in a sane world, but that’s what the establishment/globalists want... so here we are... she makes that argument and not blowback at all over it.
All Presidents 1790-2008 $10.87T in 200+ years
Obama 2009 -2016 +$9.23T in eight years.
Trump 2017 -2020 +$7.05T in four years
Biden 2021 – 2023 +$6.56T in three years
Total =$33.71T in Total Debt today
I’m going to chance it with DeSantis, maybe he’ll actually finish the Wall. If I protested Obama in 2009 for the Debt, I’m certainly not voting for Trump after he turned the country over to Pelosi, Fauci, and Barr. That and he’s 100 years old.
i think my favorite moment from the 2016 primaries was when Lyin Ted tried talking to voters and they asked him ‘where’s your goldman sachs jacket’ ha ha.
Rob DeSanctimonious is running 3rd in Iowa, 4th in New Hampshire, and now 3rd in South Carolina.
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Why are you so obsessed with De Santis? You seem really scared of him being the better candidate. I know he is the better candidate. He doesn’t call other candidates stupid playground names and never hired a bunch of backstabbing RINO’s like tha aging and recklessly gullible Trump.
Even Niki Haley, who apparently yesterday punted away her candidacy when she stupidly stated that she wants to strip down freedom of speech, is spending her RINO donor money on nasty ads about, not Trump, but DeSantis. That tells me who the real RINOs are lolz.
Ron will continue to bail out his sinking ship until the last rat has left it, and the last dog is hung. He sure as hell isn’t in any hurry to get back to Florida to do his job, and that’s because he helped himself, got the law changed, so he’ll continue to get a check from the Florida taxpayers, no matter how long he’s gone.
Even Jeb would have quit by now. 🙄
Guess he shoulda waited until 2028.
Maybe there is a strategy but he doesnt push back against anyone. His push back againat Nikki Haley, on a day when she advocated doxxing everyone in the country, was to bring up George Floyd.
Everyone should be driving that home. Doxxing the Net is her day one policy. Sheesh.
For me it’s not really obsession, it’s more like enjoyment, fascination and satisfaction watching his implosion. The pure stupidity and arrogance of challenging PDJT this cycle has come back to haunt him. OK I admit I am obsessed in a way.
Well if RDS is imploding, this is the longest implosion in the history of implosions. Trump worshippers have been saying this for several months now.
If RDS is imploding, why are both Trump and Niki Haley throwing millions into negative ads about only DeSantis, and not each other? Can you answer that?
Because it kinda fun?
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Haley is going nowhere. Her only appeal is to the knee knocker RINO Republicans.
“DeSantis falls to fourth place behind Christie and Haley in New Hampshire: Poll”
Meanwhile, Massachusetts is bleeding population and the richest Dems are moving to New Hampshire.
DeSantis fans' response: "You seem really scared of him being the better candidate."
Riiiiiiight. Go with that.
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