Posted on 06/14/2023 11:39:08 AM PDT by conservative98
If Ron DeSantis wants to wrest front-runner status away from Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential race, he’s going to have to resolve his trouble with female voters.
That’s one takeaway from a new poll by The Economist and YouGov, which illustrates that DeSantis is dragging with women voters, and is stronger with men.
While DeSantis only trails Trump 48% to 26% with male voters, with former United Nations envoy Nikki Haley and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina each taking 4% for a distant third, he’s doing much worse with women.
In this survey, 54% of female Republicans back Trump, with just 17% backing DeSantis. In third place with women voters: former Vice President Mike Pence, who has 6% support.
All told, Trump has a 51% to 21% lead over the Florida Governor.
“Trump continues to be the top choice of registered voters who are Republicans or independents who lean toward the Republican Party. Among this group, Trump holds a 30-percentage-point lead over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a hypothetical Primary held now; all other announced candidates tested are in single digits,” the polling memo notes.
“Trump fares better — and DeSantis fares worse — among women in this group of registered Republicans and Republican leaners; Trump performs better among people in this group without a college degree and DeSantis among people with one. One in 10 Republican and Republican-leaning voters (11%) aren’t sure whom they’d support in a hypothetical Primary held in their state today.”
DeSantis has just 16% support among those Republicans who did not graduate college, 43 points behind Trump. But among grads, the two are in a dead heat statistically, with Trump taking 33% and DeSantis commanding 32%.
DeSantis also struggles with voters 45 years of age and up, taking just 18% against 54% for Trump. Meanwhile, this poll suggests he does not have particular appeal in his region of the country.
“Even in the South, DeSantis’s home region, the Florida Governor trails the former President by 30 points — the same as Trump’s lead nationwide.”
I don't want Trump in jail, and I don't think he's going there, either. At least not for long, before he got pardoned or some other relief. They're just going to make sure he's never President again.
How many women are just begging to vote for Trump with his bragging abou snatch grabbing, porn stars, adultery, payoffs, and constant badmouthing people?
Seriously? You trust ANY data from the 2020 STOLEN election?
My daughter is an example of easily a few million who won’t vote for him.
She voted for Trump in 2016 but now she hates him. I’m not defending her decision entirely, her husband is a leftist and she listens too much to liberal TV and Podcasts.
Yet she really was sickened by his talk and crude behavior, and the Jan 6 thing. I don’t care what people like the 98 guy say. Trump may not have ordered the attack but I damn well saw him rile but that crowd and urge them to March to the capital building and protest. From there it was a tiny step to do what they did.
Awful decision on Trumps part as it interrupted about 3 hours of planned nationally televised coverage of the election where the repubs were going to cast their ballots and could have protested.
It was a propaganda goldmine for the Dems.
They don’t want a meatball
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