Posted on 03/24/2023 2:22:58 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
President Donald Trump has taken the lead in the Sunshine State, eclipsing the popularity of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) in a new poll conducted by Emerson College.
Per their survey, Trump leads DeSantis with 47 percent of the vote among Florida GOP voters compared to the governor’s 44 percent in a hypothetical 2024 presidential GOP primary race.
The outpouring of Floridian support is a surprising twist, given the fact that DeSantis won his reelection bid in Florida in November 2022 with a staggering 20-point victory over his opponent, former Republican-turned-Democrat, Charlie Crist.
In that same poll, GOP voters indicated that they would give former Vice President Mike Pence 4 percent of support. However, Pence has not officially announced if he will be entering the presidential race in 2024.
Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor and former U.N. ambassador, snagged only 2 percent of support in Florida, despite declaring her 2024 candidacy in February 2023.
President Trump has made rapid gains in polling since November 2022. As reported by RSBN, the 45th president recently scored big in Morning Consult’s 2024 GOP Primary Tracker, winning 54 percent of support among GOP voters for the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2024. In that poll, DeSantis scored 26 percent of support.
A recent Yahoo/YouGov poll also found that in a hypothetical 2024 Republican primary, 44 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents would support Trump against DeSantis’s 28 percent. In their survey, Haley netted 5 percent of support and Pence scored 4 percent.
Per RSBN, Premise Data also reflected Trump’s dominance in the nationwide polls, receiving 52 percent of support while DeSantis accrued 26 percent.
Although DeSantis has not officially confirmed any plans to run for president in 2024, he recently told Piers Morgan that he believed that he could beat Joe Biden in a hypothetical presidential race, indicating that he seems to have set his sights on the Oval Office.
So he is beating the guy who isn’t running yet by a huge 3%!
Uh oh.
Trump has to get a much larger lead or he won’t be able to beat Desantis when the minor players bow out.
This poll was taken before the idiotic baseball bat photo. I’m sure DeSantis is up by a few now.
>>This poll was taken before the idiotic baseball bat photo. I’m sure DeSantis is up by a few now.
Yep, Trump full-time job is helping write attack ads for democrats to use against him. DeSantis seems to be just getting the job done.
>>See, I beat the first of many of the DeSanctimonious posters to the punch!
Congrats, your life’s work is now complete.
Does this mean Hillary is prez.
What constitutional conservative wants to be lead by a man with a record of standing up and telling Americans they need to restrict their travel (unless they’re an unvetted Syrian), no gather with more than 10 (unless they’re burning cities), closing businesses and installing an economic lockdown while paying big pharma cartels billions.
To ensure its perpetual tyranny he gave us mail in ballots and a bumpstock ban.
I know there are a majority of people who would hand him their last weapon and last round in 4D chess… not I.
I watched people die alone in homes and hospitals with no funerals.
Voting for trump would mean their suffering was in vain.
EUAs have specific criteria… so either it was an abuse of power or a provable evil was loosed upon us.
Which was it?
Are you people aware that this is a poll just of Florida Republicans? It is not surprising that a popular governor of a state would poll well.
Please explain how Trump gave us mail in ballots, when elections are run at the state and local level.
Great timing!!
The Rovians will have to pay for some push polls to broadcast confidence in DeSantis.
Maybe increase his heel height again...
At this time in 2015 the Polls has Jeb Bush and Walker as the front runners
1) It is too early to poll this specific.
It would make more sense to ask to sense ask “what do you
like most about candidate X? About candidate Y?
The vast majority like Trumps actions as President.
They do not like the rhetoric, the attitude. But for
Trump’s most loyal supporters, they do not like his
small government de-regulation. They like his attitude.
2) Who believes these polls?
Perhaps many Floridians do not want him to leave Florida to become president, so the vote for former president Trump.
Agree with your opinion, he is a great governor, doing all the right and moral things, here’s the “ but “ a man who does all the right things, says all the right things, then decides to challenge a man who has done the same things , it just doesn’t sit with me, he should support Trump and run in 2028.
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