Poll: Florida’s GOP U.S. Senate race shaping up as two man race, with David Jolly leading

Rep. David Jolly

Pinellas County Congressman David Jolly has a three-point lead over Ponte Vedra Beach Representative Ron DeSantis in a new St. Pete Polls survey released Wednesday, but over 43 percent of Republicans polled said they’re unsure or would prefer another candidate.

Jolly gets 21 percent of the vote, with DeSantis next at 18 percent. Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera is third with 10 percent, and former military veteran and CIA contractor Todd Wilcox is at 8 percent.

However, 44 percent of the voters say they’re unsure or someone else.

When asked if they have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the four candidates, the overwhelming majority in all four cases is that the public doesn’t know who they are.

Lopez-Cantera has the worst record when it comes to favorables/unfavorables. He gets a 17 percent favorable rating, but 15 percent unfavorable rating.

This poll of 2,694 Florida active Republican primary voters was conducted from Monday, December 14 to Tuesday, December 15. The scientific results have a 1.9 percent Margin of Error at a 95 percent confidence level.

Mitch Perry

Mitch Perry has been a reporter with Extensive Enterprises since November of 2014. Previously, he served five years as political editor of the alternative newsweekly Creative Loafing. Mitch also was assistant news director with WMNF 88.5 FM in Tampa from 2000-2009, and currently hosts MidPoint, a weekly talk show, on WMNF on Thursday afternoons. He began his reporting career at KPFA radio in Berkeley and is a San Francisco native who has lived in Tampa since 2000. Mitch can be reached at [email protected].



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