Posted on 09/15/2023 3:38:46 PM PDT by conservative98
'I think at the end of the day, it's very fluid.'
Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t worried despite national polls that show him roughly 50 points behind former President Donald Trump.
During an interview on the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” the Governor downplayed the importance of a fresh Fox News poll showing Trump ahead of him 60% to 13%, and a Quinnipiac poll with a 62% to 12% spread.
“I think it’s a state-by-state thing. So we’re focused our efforts on the early states. I mean, if it was a national Primary, we’d have a different strategy and we’d be applying our efforts differently,” DeSantis said.
The Governor noted specifically that Trump isn’t “leading by those numbers” in Iowa, as evidenced by his campaign “sending him there” to campaign more this fall. However, in the most recent poll from the Hawkeye State, DeSantis is at 14%, suggesting he hasn’t much more traction there than anywhere else.
“I think at the end of the day, it’s very fluid,” DeSantis said.
The Governor then rationalized Trump’s poll lead as being driven by “sympathy” for the former President’s legal issues.
“I think that that has helped him because people look at our (Department of Justice) and FBI and they see the corruption, they see the weaponization. And so I do think that there’s been some sympathy for that and understandably so,” DeSantis said.
“We’ve got a long way to go
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Fluid in the sense that DeSantis’s candidacy is going down the drain.
He shoulda waited.
Meatball doesn’t care. He’s only doing this for contributions
Its fluid alright, he’s bleeding out. 😏
That doesn't happen by magic, ace. You have to BEAT Trump in the primary. And you can't.
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