Disney edges out Ron DeSantis in popularity poll

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31% of respondents didn't have a take at all on DeSantis.

Disney is slightly more popular than Ron DeSantis, the Florida Governor who declared political war on the entertainment and theme park giant.

A survey commissioned by NBC News and performed by Hart Research Associates/Public Opinion Strategies asked 1,000 adults various questions, including tracking the popularity of Disney and Gov. DeSantis, who has spent recent months punishing one of the state’s flagship companies for opposing the state’s Parental Rights in Education law.

The poll showed Disney outperforming DeSantis in overall popularity, with 33% for Disney and 28% for DeSantis.

Both the entertainment giant and the political titan were above water in terms of net favorability: Disney +3, DeSantis +2.

Twenty percent of all respondents said they saw DeSantis in a very positive way. The same number saw him in a very negative way. Disney saw the same polarization, but with 15% at each extreme.

DeSantis is still growing in national stature. 31% of respondents had no opinion of him, while just 7% were agnostic about Disney.

Earlier this year, Florida lawmakers advanced two bills, SB 4C and SB 6C, which targeted Disney after the company said that it would work to repeal HB 1557.

The former bill was intended to punish the company by stripping Disney of its self-governing status in the Reedy Creek Improvement District. Another bill removed a carve-out created for Disney exempting it from a law passed in 2021 targeting so-called Big Tech.

DeSantis has thundered about Disney’s wading into this battleground of the culture war, suggesting that the company that spurred much of Central Florida’s growth since the mid-20th century lacks standing to commentate.

“You’re a corporation based in Burbank, California and you’re going to marshal your economic might to attack the parents of my state?” DeSantis said at a bill signing event in Hialeah. “We view that as a provocation and we’re going to fight back against that.”

The standoff between Disney and DeSantis comes while the company deals with a post-pandemic recovery, as well as the growth of its Disney+ streaming service.

In an earnings call last week, the entertainment giant said it earned $470 million, or 26 cents per share, in the three months ended April 2. That’s down from $901 million, or 49 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier. Adjusted for one-time items, Disney earned $1.08 per share in the latest quarter.

Revenue grew 23% to $19.25 billion from $15.61 billion.

Analysts, on average, were expecting earnings of $1.19 per share on revenue of $20.05 billion, according to a survey by FactSet.

The company also noted that it added 7.9 million Disney+ subscribers in the quarter — and while the service is popular with families, it is also attracting sign-ups from people who don’t sign up for the children’s content but for general entertainment titles.

Disney’s shares rose $3.68, or 3.5 percent, to $108.89 in after-hours trading.

The NBC News poll has a margin of error of +/- 3.19%,

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Florida Politics’ Gray Rohrer and The Associated Press contributed reporting.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. He is based in Northeast Florida. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


89 comments

  • Wanda

    May 15, 2022 at 11:30 am

    Ron is playing with fire he is messing with the wrong people Disney could easily leave Florida and take all their jobs with them DEATHDESANTIS IS A ASS AND WANTS TO BE IN CHARGE HE ONLY WON BY 3000 votes and Disney has 7000 working for them he will be voted out in 2022 he is dangerous to Florida

    • Tom

      May 15, 2022 at 11:40 am

      You are crazy, if you think Disney leaves. Not happening. You think they’ll spend $5 billion to move?
      Lose the sunny 80’s degree weather, 330 days, out of 365 a year. Wanda shears the idiot. Btw, your electoral non analysis is ignorant like you. Period. America’s Gov wins bigky!

      • Amy

        May 15, 2022 at 6:01 pm

        Absolutely why not come to Jacksonville and ask us? We support Desantis 100%

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      • Todd Haylock

        May 15, 2022 at 10:37 pm

        Good point Tom..
        Not to mention, because of Floridas inert geology( mostly sedimentary) there’s no chance of earthquake destruction,– which is possible for most other states. Having a billion dollar amusement park reduced to rubble in 30 seconds– is something to be seriously considered🤭

        • Tom

          May 16, 2022 at 8:01 am

          Yes Todd, as outlined.
          It is the perfect setting for Disney.
          Period full stop! Non issue.
          Disney ain’t going anywhere.
          Even spending $5 billion, $10 billion or greater to move. The financial burden not feasible, on top of the loss of the perfect climate.

          Liberal moronic chatter. Typical.

      • You don’t

        May 16, 2022 at 11:37 am

        Tom whatever Ron is paying you I hope you at least get health insurance with that lol

        • Tom

          May 16, 2022 at 10:25 pm

          Kiss my ass.
          I take all you Manchurians on and defeat you all. Fake moniker loser.
          No balls.

          • White

            May 18, 2022 at 5:29 pm

            Don’t go shooting up Disney Tom.
            I know how you people like that buffalo boy lol

    • Gary

      May 15, 2022 at 12:05 pm

      I can’t imagine that Disney strands an asset in Florida worth tens of billions of dollars over a political fight. You have a bent card in your deck of mental mastery if you believe that, let alone they’d give up their most profitable park in their global inventory. They’ll just raise prices and hold their corporate nose as they write the check for their property taxes as their Disneyworld goose keeps pooping out money.

    • Judy

      May 15, 2022 at 12:55 pm

      Disney can leave Florida and take their employees with them.
      Ron DeSantis is trying to protect children from adults who are obsessed with sex. The media has lied about the bill from the beginning. K-3 children should not be concerned about certain things. Florida is very accepting of all people and children learn what they live.
      They are constantly exposed to many things and based on parental guidance at the correct
      age their can make decisions.

      • Kevin

        May 15, 2022 at 4:09 pm

        Descant is a complete POS. He doesn’t care about any kids. Another made up issue to continue the brainwashing of the cult. A garbage human being with garbage followers who will fall for anything.

      • Cal Howdy

        May 16, 2022 at 6:44 am

        Judy, Judy, Judy. The only people obsessed with sex seem to be those who feel a need to legislate it. No to Trans, no to Gay, no to reproductive freedom, no to talking about it, no to printing it in text books. Obsessive in the extreme.

      • BrassBiscuit

        May 16, 2022 at 6:39 pm

        DeSantis creates a bogeyman, and heroically chases it around , to the delight of you and your kind. His job is to impress people like you: a low bar to clear.

        • BrassBiscuit

          May 16, 2022 at 6:42 pm

          My comment above is in reply to Judy.

    • Walt DeSantis

      May 15, 2022 at 1:44 pm

      You must lack the ability to understand how crazy you are so let me help you out. 1) Disney isn’t going to ever pull out of Florida. They have several billion dollars invested in land, personnel and infrastructure to just leave. 2) that you think DeSantis is dangerous for Florida or Floridians. He has become America’s Governor because of his no nonsense attitude and his willingness to call out people. Keep beating that drum of division and fear mongering. Let the adults handle the issues of the world.

    • Constitutionalist

      May 15, 2022 at 3:46 pm

      LMAO— Disney is STUCK here. The Only 2 other places in America with the year round weather that is CRITICAL to them is California and Hawaii. Cali already has one, and Hawaii is inaccessible. And they are 50 years embedded in Orlando. The cost to replicate that is not feasible. And DeSantis has PROVEN himself in Florida—- George Washington couldn’t beat DeSantis!
      Lefty Trolls like you have NO SHOT at undermining him. But nice try!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…….

    • Cadillacack

      May 15, 2022 at 6:43 pm

      Desantis in Florida and Abbott in Texas are competing for the douchebag of the decade award.

    • RP

      May 15, 2022 at 11:51 pm

      Fallacy number one: You’re believing an NBC poll. Of course they going to make it appear DeSantis is losing his argument. You should ask the question,as to the make up of the people that answered the poll. Usually, it’s weighted heavily Democrat. The people asked are probably from California and not a general mixture of people. These leftist polsterrs usually make things look bad for conservatives, simply because they have a bias. They hate conservatives and will always try to make them look bad. With about 70% of people agreeing with DeSantis’ and the defeat of the anti indoctrination bill (CRT and childhood sexualization), I find it hard to believe that only 28% of people agree with DeSantis. This is one of the ways big tech and the media are brainwashing low information people as yourself.

    • Pam

      May 16, 2022 at 12:11 am

      You are right DeathSantis is a complete POS He is the one who needs to leave the State with the rest of these MORON. Trump supporters. Stupid bunch of uneducated idiots.

      • Thomas M

        May 16, 2022 at 7:41 pm

        You thoughtful and polite arguments have convinced me.

  • Tom

    May 15, 2022 at 11:36 am

    Definitely a reach poll.
    America’s Governor has carved a niche out nationally, but he’s still the new kid on block.
    The fact that he’s toe to toe with the powerhouse Disney speaks volumes.
    Note: Gov Ron kept Disney open during Covid.
    They still did well very during Covid.

    They picked a wrong fight, after sleep at the wheel when this proposal was introduced. They didn’t even address it in the House. Not until it had passed and the extremes within complained did Chapek speak up.

    If anything and I’m weary to offer based upon replies, Gov Ron comes out well. I wouldn’t suggest too much either way. If anything he’s raised his profile helpfully. America’s Governor!

    • Jen

      May 15, 2022 at 12:26 pm

      Actually disney closed during covid and followed their own path as far as reopening, crowd size, protocols to enter the park. They were more closely aligned with cdc recs than desantis.

    • Real Tom

      May 15, 2022 at 1:27 pm

      America’s Governor is Tom Cotton you communist piece of S. Go back to your Florida meth pipe and fantasize about licking the sack of DeSantis while he sharts all over your submissive quivering face.

      • Bill

        May 15, 2022 at 2:52 pm

        You bozo Cotton is a Senator

      • Tom

        May 15, 2022 at 4:38 pm

        Fake moniker Tom, LMAO you don’t know jack shit, bout shit. I am the legend Tom. As Bill points out Cotton is a Senator. DeSsntis is easily America’s Gov and the peeps around the country are responding positively.

        Fake moniker, I own you as America’s Gov owns Dum, Dems. Whiz kid Gov whizzes on you Dums daily. You are a joke. You offer nothing as usual.

        • Dan

          May 15, 2022 at 10:28 pm

          Honestly I’m going to wait and see just how much Floridian’s taxes go from here.

  • Jose

    May 15, 2022 at 11:45 am

    Wanda, you’re absolutely right. De Santis is a retrograde professional politician who only cares about his possible candidacy for president in 2024. He’s a dinosaur, just like his idol Trump. I’m sure that he will ban abortion totally or to a large degree in Florida is SCOTUS does away with Roe vs Wade. Gay marriage is not far behind.

    • Judy

      May 15, 2022 at 1:01 pm

      Explain to me why people move here avg 1,000 weekly saying they are moving to freedom and away from democrat run states.

      • Dan

        May 15, 2022 at 10:34 pm

        My father moved to Mrco Island Florida because of the weather not for a political party.

        • Dan

          May 15, 2022 at 10:36 pm

          Sorry 😔 it is Marco.

  • Just a comment

    May 15, 2022 at 11:50 am

    Cursing each other out is not picking up the prices of this breaking down America

  • The Journalism of Squirt

    May 15, 2022 at 12:09 pm

    I have heard of whipped cream news stories, but this is the biggest confection I’ve seen from Gonzo Gancarski in many a long month. Comparing Disney, a century-old, global brand, with DeSantis, whose political nameplate is still in its first term in one state, is as invalid as comparing American Airlines with some cutting edge, high speed electric jet. Try again in say, six months, AG: you’ll get a more solid picture then (not that you’ll like it.)

    • Dan

      May 15, 2022 at 10:38 pm

      Now that is a really interesting idea.

  • Deb

    May 15, 2022 at 12:14 pm

    So communism has to be taught about but not racism per Ron Desantis. Free to do what in Florida? Not much he mandates to teach communism?! passes laws that are thrown out. Spends money flying around the state getting free campaign coverage on local news. Has his entourage of kids and placards fighting Disney and Abortion?! Exhausted by his theatrics .

    • Fenna

      May 15, 2022 at 12:41 pm

      It’s called DeSantis Fatigue and it’s a very real thing. The entire state is suffering and indeed many people across the country. Relief is in Texas.

      • Cadillac Jack

        May 15, 2022 at 6:50 pm

        Not in Texas until we get DICK Abbott out of here.

      • Dan

        May 15, 2022 at 10:53 pm

        Why is it when Republican’s try to violate the right’s of any kind of group, the far right wing try to blame it on Democrats for their reason why they do what they do.

  • Fenna

    May 15, 2022 at 12:38 pm

    DeSantis is DeDone. Floridians are suffering from DeSantis Fatigue and looking to non-clown states like Texas for real leadership. The Florida carnival with me too DeSantis and pedo/trafficker Gaetz and little marco. Would make a pathetic but funny reality show but America needs leadership not theater.

    • Jack

      May 15, 2022 at 3:43 pm

      You are funny! We love our Governor Ron DeSantis. The entire country is suffering from Liberal fatigue.

      • Dan

        May 15, 2022 at 11:02 pm

        Well I can say Deranged ( lol ) will find out just how the rest of America thinks of him if he tries to leave his little corner of only one State.

  • Real Tom

    May 15, 2022 at 12:43 pm

    At least Disney didn’t lock down the state like DeSantis did. The DeSantis Lockdowns nearly destroyed Florida.

    • Tom

      May 15, 2022 at 1:37 pm

      Fake Tom reappears, with total ignorance and non facts. I am legend you fake moniker. How broken dead and empty minded you are.

      Under any pre Covid, or after Covid metrics, America’s Gov has had Florida prosper and continues to do so. Florida’s economy is number one or top 5 across the board. 3.2% unemployment. Many more metrics.

      Disney prospered under DeSantis, America’s Gov. Lies and non facts will not suffice. Jenna, Jose, Deb and Fenna are clueless. The 5% Manchurian haters. They followed masks, they were open. Period

      You idiots need to study instead of repeating retread Dem Dum talking points. What state do you live in? This is Florida, the bell weather of freedom and liberty, due to America’s Gov! Period.

      America’s Gov wins! Get over it.

      • Wreckedtits

        May 15, 2022 at 4:19 pm

        Disney is going to sue and win. DeSantis own judges aren’t backing up his bs. Just like the redistricting. He screwed it up and his own judge reversing it. He can’t do it right. Now the blacks can vote again and get their drugs and guns. DeSantis and his wife’s tatas are jokes.

        • Tom

          May 15, 2022 at 4:51 pm

          Total ignorance and mental stupidity from you. DeSantis will prevail as I outlined in that story. State Sup ct or U S Sup ct will not put up with corrupt Lawson mander.

          Lawson most votes, 1000 votes by proxy. He hasn’t been present all year.
          What a joke. Pathetic, make $175,000 a year and sit at home.

          You obviously are deranged when you joke bout someone’s health. Typical dumcrat.

          Read it and weep.

          • Jenn

            May 15, 2022 at 5:02 pm

            I don’t think your liberal dem histrionics are going to make anyone weep. Get help, all of you.

          • Tom

            May 15, 2022 at 5:40 pm

            Hey Jenn. Save it.
            Liberals are yesterday’s news!
            Ain’t histrionics to say the truth.
            I speak truth, period.

    • ….

      May 16, 2022 at 2:15 pm

      Every state was locked down and many states stayed locked down much longer than Florida and had more problems with opening back up and I’m gushing while I could be wrong probably had more smaller businesses shut dow. While I admit there are things he done that are not great blaming him for shutting down the state and causing the damage it did would be the last on my list because we we’re be of the last to shut down and one of the first to open back up.

  • Jose

    May 15, 2022 at 2:45 pm

    NBC poll? Lol I call bullshit

  • TrumpNoem2024

    May 15, 2022 at 4:15 pm

    Trump will return and Come primaries Noem is going to eat marbled DeSantis flesh and use abbot and cawthornes legs as toothpicks and she will be TrumPsVP. Trump/Noem2024evah

    • Tom

      May 15, 2022 at 5:57 pm

      DeSantis served in the House with Noem. She does not fight, South Dakota offers nothing. DeSantis owns the GOP and conservative movement, excluding Trump. He fights, his economic, social and judicial bonafides are established.
      Baseball captain, Yale and Harvard, grad, enlisted in navy, counsel for seal team, and former U S attorney. He crushes it. Noem is stiff. No Gov in country, either side has a record like Ron. He is America’s Gov.

      Do for America what he’s done for Florida! Wins bigly in Nov. WH oval after.

      • BrassBiscuit

        May 17, 2022 at 5:11 pm

        DeSantis, who relies on the “dumb ‘em down, rile ‘em up” dynamic, lowered Florida state flags at half staff for Rush Limbaugh. These whining, perpetually victimized entertainers work a well proven formula. DeSantis said: “ Walt Disney….has now been perverted by a woke mob of liberal extremists into a laboratory of gender identity social experimentation, in which our children are Guinea pigs”. Specious, irresponsible and effective.

  • Chet Suggs

    May 15, 2022 at 4:44 pm

    The problem with DeSantis is he’s not ultra maga. He’s a trump knock off / wanna be but the movement has moved on past trump and DeSantis and is now in the hands of real maga. Ultra maga. Winds of change. DeSantis was an ok gap-fill but that’s all he was. Trump hates him and will never let him be president. Others with ultra maga cred are emerging and taking over. Like the black woman in PA who was a product of a rape pregnancy and grew up with pigs in a barn. She’s a superstar now. DeSantis can’t compete with that. The movement has moved on. DeSantis had his time and he knows the sun is setting for him because he is not a dumb man. But in the end he’ll just be an also-ran to Trump.

    • Tom

      May 15, 2022 at 5:00 pm

      Total idiocy, Barnett has no chance.
      Even if she inches through in primary she will get smoked in general.
      Over a third of National Rep voters love Desantis. The more people learn bout him, they like him. Trump is just over a majority. He’s toe to toe with Disney.

      DeSantis has set the example as Governor, period. Even the 5% Manchurian haters benefited in Florida. America’s Gov #1.,

      • Chet Suggs

        May 16, 2022 at 5:47 pm

        You missed the point. What DeSantis and the other republican governors trying to copy Trump are doing worked a year and a half ago. The movement has moved on. And you don’t get it with Barrett. People love her, they’re mesmerized. She’s already won. She and other Americans like her are standing up and taking this country back. This is what Trump gave us. She might not have a chance in this election but the whole damn country knows her name. It’s because she’s taken the movement and is showing other everyday people how it benefits them. DeSantis and a whole pack of governors are trying to imitate Trump thinking it will attract the maga masses. It’s a sign they’re out of touch and exploitative. We the people can see through a lot. I’m not saying DeSantis is bad, he just needs to take a cue and stop the Trump mini me routine because that isn’t going to work up against the authentic ultra maga that’s being preached by real people.

        • Tom

          May 16, 2022 at 11:36 pm

          DeSantis dominates the political conservative movement, the peeps are on his side. The media is mesmerized by him. He tackles all issues. He is the new generation leader. You are ill with that liar Barrett, she will not win tomorrow.

          Your animosity towards Desantis, America’s Governor is funny, you are jealous. Such a child. Good riddance!

  • Tom

    May 15, 2022 at 5:21 pm

    Chet, calm down.
    Trump does not hate America’s Governor. They get along well. DeSantis is the leader of the GOP and conservative movement. He’s second to the formerPOTUS. DeSantis is the real deal, Biden WH, the Dem establishment and corporate media know that. He’s taken very seriously.

    Barnett in PA, will not win primary and if she does inch through, she will have very tough time in general.

    America’s Gov will win re elect bigly, chameleon Crispy, N Fraud no chance. DeSantis #1!
    His record is impeccable!

    • Chet Suggs

      May 15, 2022 at 5:34 pm

      Sorry to school you little boy but TRUMP is the head of the GOP and DeSantis is just the Governor of Florida. A state facing three simultaneous housing crises and also now the most expensive place to live in the country. You’re not a trump insider. You live in a adolescent hero-worship fantasy land. Many on here have called out your mental illness and self delusion. Thinking you’re a legend lololol. You’re just another anonymous troll. Trump decides. DeSantis obeys.

      • Tom

        May 15, 2022 at 6:15 pm

        There is no housing crisis moron,
        You are demented. Trump is at best 50/50 to run again. I am not anti Trump, but he has serious investigations and it’s not clear how that will shake out. The Dems will use every lever to prevent him again.

        Trump does not hate Desantis, they get along. DeSantis has about 30% plus of the GOP on his side. It would be steep to defeat Trump but he may try. In fairness, he’s never offered on running.

        No one has called anything out. Dems passing judgement on a legend like me is secondary. I am a political scientist and student of congress and the presidency. You wash tables at Joe’s crab house. I’ve defeated all Manchurians. I call out FP editors daily.

        You are not in my league. Just a Dem dumtard, when you cry housing and Wah expensive that’s liberal Dum talking points. Go watch morning hoe & mika, u hoping pretty boy would run.

        DeSantis will defeat chameleon crispy, nikki fraud, and any other dum crat.
        Go suck mommies nipple. What a joke you are, oh yeah you are an insider to who? My ass loser!
        Kiss off moron. LMAO.

        • Chet Suggs

          May 15, 2022 at 9:45 pm

          You are an anti trump DeSantis sack lick. Everyone on here knows your just a paid troller for DeSantis. Probably a 23 year old incel living in parents house. Trump is the leader, DeSantis a follower.

          • Tom

            May 16, 2022 at 8:09 am

            I am a legend, known facts.

            Chet, You are a fool, my bona fides for Trump are second to none. When you use the liberal talking, crying points, you show your true fake colors.

            America’s Gov is the new generation leader. Get over it baby Chet Huey.

            DeSantis is the new leader of the conservative movement and GOP.
            It’s called leadership and fighting for peeps.

            You are a panty licker.
            Clueless, hapless, helpless Cher, Chet.
            LMAO.

        • Cher Suggs

          May 15, 2022 at 9:48 pm

          Housing crises (plural) in Florida.
          1 insurance companies forcing homeowners to replace perfectly good roofs
          2 rents out of control and nowhere to live
          3 no homes avail for buyers

          Three separate crises you moron. Trump knows how to govern. DeSantis can only copy and employ 30 year old virgins like you Tommy to troll for him.

          • Tom

            May 16, 2022 at 7:39 am

            Cher, Chet the Suggs moron. Whatever.
            Fabrication by a liberal non trumper and hater.

            The housing rental moratorium caused a spike not Desantis you liberal liar.

            You have no facts, just spouting hate.
            Florida is in demand. People are fleeing your liberal hell holes.
            The new state budget July, is dedicating $200 million towards housing starting in July, increases coming for the truly needy.

            Shut the hell up with your trump spouting. Your are dummycrat, you won’t vote for him anyway.

            You are clueless. I busted your balls just as America’s Gov whizzes on you , and dummycrats.

            Spare me your demagoguery on housing. DeSantis is the new generation leader.

            Wins re elect over chameleon or fraud, on to the WH oval.

            You can’t play with me loser.

      • Howard

        May 15, 2022 at 6:54 pm

        I wouldn’t brag about trump being the leader of the gop. Anyone who tries to overturn an election and praises a mass murderer is a criminal. And I realize that his supporters are so devoid of morals that they still support him.

        • Chet Suggs

          May 16, 2022 at 5:37 pm

          The only real Chet Suggs post was the first one. Next ones and “Cher” suggs fake. Trump 45/47

  • Deb

    May 15, 2022 at 5:26 pm

    I have lived in Florida 45 years. I have voted for Republicans and Democrats for Governor. The hate since one way Desantis has been in is palpating our state. People move here for the sun and warmth but now we are more expensive then NY and California. Homeowners Insurers are dropping people. Let’s get someone who wants to be governor not a President.Stay out of education and leave us alone to be FREE.

    • Tom

      May 15, 2022 at 6:58 pm

      Save it Deb.
      Stump your whining.
      DeSantis saved Florida.
      Spare us.

    • Thomas M

      May 16, 2022 at 7:47 pm

      Charlie Crist doesn’t count as voting for a Republican.

  • Frankie Lynn

    May 15, 2022 at 6:26 pm

    I think its very sad that Republicans are ever-willing to find a new autocrat to worship. Desantis is a fool, and his policies are stupid and un-needed. Disney took a stand and here’s a newsflash for the socialist, Putin-loving GOP: Everyone has a right to free speech, including corporations.

    That’s by the way the same assumption made by the Republican Supreme Court in the Citizens United case, remember? And how does stripping away rights and voting power equal “freedom”? You right wingers are nuts.

    Republicans are stooges and hypocrites and they are single-handedly turning this country into Russia but I think that has been the goal for them for quite some time now.

    • Tom

      May 15, 2022 at 7:54 pm

      Yeah, the Dum, Dems, Bill Clinton, Obama, Hillary, Dr Rice, Biden foreign policy has been so successful with Russia. You failures.

      DeSantis America’s Gov, the whiz kid, he whizzes on you and the Dumtards everyday. Disney took no stand, they slept til after it passed. They made no effort at all. They got called out like I am doing to you, cause you are just another ignorant Manchurian.
      Disney ABC licks China but pretends to be woke in America! F them.

      Shut the hell up you loser!
      Just another ignant Manchurian.

  • Tom

    May 15, 2022 at 6:52 pm

    Deb stop being such a liberal idiot.
    Your whining is pathetic. DeSantis saved Florida. Even for Dems.
    Let me count the ways:

    1. Number One in Seniors Covid inoculations per Biden’s HHS.
    2. Applied laser speed in passing out all ages access to inoculations.
    3. Kept Florida schools open, was sued by Florida union and they lost. This had been recognized as lifesaving. Parents across Florida know that
    4. Jobs, employment and businesses. Florida’s unemployment is 3.2%, top 10 in country. All pre Covid jobs recaptured and some.
    5. Manufacturing jobs, technology abundance on space coast.
    6. High school and junior college trade programs sky rocketing under Desantis across the state. Which he has personally grown.
    7. Best environmental Gov in 50 yrs. Lake O. Clean up, resurrection, south actuaries and waterways clean up, manatee clean up. Other environmental cleanups.
    8. Judicial integrity and conservative values.
    9. Tax cuts for families and growth.
    10. Educators and teachers two pay raises, bonus.
    11. Law enforcement two raises and bonus.
    12: First responders raises and bonus.
    13. Over $15 trillion in financial reserves.
    14. Florida 8.7% wage growth, top three in country. So may more benefits.

    Rising tide for all, not a few!
    Stop whining Deb and otters!
    Be thankful! Losers. I am legend!

    • Juan

      May 15, 2022 at 10:00 pm

      This “Tom” person is obviously a DeSantis staffer. Seriously this is not how normal people post.

      • Tom

        May 16, 2022 at 7:42 am

        Hardly but you are a dumcrat.
        I bring truth and light.
        America’s Gov number 1.
        DeSantis new generation leader.
        The best Gov in country.

      • Tom

        May 16, 2022 at 8:27 am

        I am the Tom person you fool
        I am legend, I suffer happily the Manchurians such as you and Chet, Cher and others. The 5% Manchurian haters can’t defeat me. You proved it In your opening above. Enjoy, listen and learn.
        DeSantis is America’s Gov, new generation leader! Buckle up!
        I speak truth!

  • Mister Piggy

    May 15, 2022 at 10:03 pm

    Anyone else noticing how fat DeSantis is getting? If he gets any bigger they’re gonna have to grease the doors at the Governor mansion so he can get through. Piggy piggy

    • Tom

      May 16, 2022 at 1:55 pm

      You moron, interesting picture you have. Are u 150 pds over weight.
      How’s your mini van , big enough?

      How insensitive you are.
      America’s Gov has only had to successfully deal with 100 yr pandemic. In which he saved Florida.
      No stress.
      He saved Your job, family, lifestyle and home.
      How Ungrateful you are.
      His wife had cancer treatment to deal with for 1 yr. no stress.
      3 very young kids to help his ailing wife with. No stress.
      You are a sick person.

      • Mr. Piggy

        May 16, 2022 at 5:34 pm

        Piggy PIGgy PIGGY!! You better slim up Ronnie boy, we know it’s you posting like trump did with “John Barron” lol. You’ll never get to the white house as a fat man. Just sayin’… thank me 60 lbs from now.

  • Scott

    May 15, 2022 at 10:35 pm

    Fake news, I don’t believe this. A liberal hit piece…

  • Denise

    May 16, 2022 at 1:22 am

    This article made me giggle. Strategic reporting. I also wonder what the political and age demographics were in this poll. I back DeSantis 100% and he has a lot more support than this article would lead you to believe. They only polled 1000 people, hardly a good representation of what the majority of Florida’s (or the rest of the country’s) population probably think.

  • Bill

    May 16, 2022 at 1:50 am

    This is not going anywhere. It would cost them roughly $20 billion dollars to move plus the land. Plus they would have to have another governing board to allow them to do what they did in Florida. It’s not going to happen. Get your head out of your butt

  • Bill

    May 16, 2022 at 1:52 am

    This pole was done by NBC. So there lies the problem. If you want the truth. Disney is losing this completely. They have shut their mouths about it for the last month. Their stock is plummeted to like a 5-year low. They’ve lost billions on the stock market. The Santa’s is being thought of as a presidential hopeful. Who do you think? Won.

    • Tom

      May 16, 2022 at 7:49 am

      Yeah, considering ABC owns Disney.
      The NBC poll was a reach poll, trying to post Desantis vs Disney. It proved that America’s Gov holds his own vs a international company.

      Disney ain’t leaving Florida. Stop the idiocy. Move on.

      America’s Gov #1. New generation leader!

  • Hal P

    May 16, 2022 at 7:49 am

    What the heck is this writer smoking that he thinks Disney is more popular than government is DeSantis..

    It is a lie!

  • Deborah

    May 16, 2022 at 5:28 pm

    Tax ‘n Spend DeSantis at it again…

  • Chet Suggs

    May 16, 2022 at 6:28 pm

    I’m off this dump site. I post one time and am attacked by psychos, imitated by at least one, possibly two losers pretending to be me trying to stir up stuff, and even attacks from Mrs. DeSantis herself posting under a fake name with numbered lists of what she thinks her husband has done. This is because anyone can post here using any name. Site for trolls. Have fun with yourselves. Trump 45/47

    • Tom

      May 16, 2022 at 10:23 pm

      Good riddance Chet fake Trump supporter. You are a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

      Pathetic liar, lying sack of Pelosi’s manure. Go call cuomo and get fondled. Everything you posted in this outline is fake news. Kicking your ass is easy. I am legend, you pud.

      DeSantis is America’s Gov. period, he saved Florida from fondlers like blue state cuomo.

      Chameleon crisp and n fraud are losers. DeSantis wins bigly and with Gods blessing and First Lady Casey health he will run if it’s right for WH oval. New generation leader.

  • Tim Gardner

    May 16, 2022 at 7:35 pm

    DeSantis finished? Are you stupid. The citizens love the man and he will be re-elected by 15 points, even better than Bush. We are so tireed of Democrats ruining our schools with their gay agenda, abortions, transgenders using the wrong bathrooms. The good citizens want little boys to pee in the little boys bathrooms, and girls likewise. After a student gets his operation and the little boys peewee is cut off, he is welcome in the girls bathroom but not until. My grandson would have a heyday in his middle school if DeSantis overlooked this mess.

  • Truth Social

    May 16, 2022 at 9:51 pm

    Melania walked into the boudoir and dropped her bag at the table by the door. Trump sat in the corner watching three tvs at the same time. Melania kicks off her heels and walks in stocking feet to the corner near her closet to fetch her favorite kitten heel slippers and night coat. Trump frowned. As Melania walks by she rakes her long acrylics over his shoulders to try to relax him. He winces. What’s wrong mr president she asked. “That little turd DeSantis keeps copying me”. “Everyone copies you, you’re Trump.” “ But this loser is like a washed out, Canal Street counterfeit of me” he said. “Everyone can spot a canal street job from a mile away” she tried to reassure him. “The little people can’t. They go to canal street and think they’re getting Gucci, tags, Rolex’s, but they’re just getting DeSantises.” “Don’t worry about it Mr. President, DeSantis is no Trump!” she cooed. Trump stand up to face her intensely with a wry smile breaking the corner of his mouth “And Casey’s no Melania”. He grabbed her shoulders and she quivered.

  • Beth

    May 19, 2022 at 5:40 am

    In addition, most people think Mickey Mouse would make a better governor.

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