Donald Trump expects Ron DeSantis to drop to third place soon

DeSantis Trump
'Soon I don't think he'll be in second place.'

Donald Trump expects Ron DeSantis to soon lose his second place standing among Republicans in Presidential Primary polls.

“The question is, when will he go to third place,” Trump said at the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women’s “Lilac Luncheon” fundraiser.

“Somebody said, ‘How come you only attack him?’ I said because he’s in second place,” Trump said, adding that he isn’t attacking other candidates “because they’re not in second place.”

“But soon I don’t think he’ll be in second place. So I’ll be attacking somebody else, you know. Like, we’re intelligent people. Let’s attack the one in second. We don’t have to attack the one in third,” Trump continued, adding that his strategy was to keep attacking “No. 2” and “send them back to the dry cleaners.”

Trump made a similar prediction regarding DeSantis’ decline to Sean Hannity recently.

“I really go after the one who’s second,” Trump said, referring to DeSantis. “And I think the one who’s second is going down so much and so rapidly that I don’t think he’s going to be second that much longer. I think he’s going to be third or fourth.”

The former President continues to make commentary on DeSantis’ polls central to his stump speech.

Addressing the Oakland County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner on Sunday, Trump blamed the Florida Governor for plummeting in the polls, saying DeSantis’ lack of personality was to blame.

“He’s falling like a rock,” Trump snarked. “People are getting to know him. They know he’s got no personality. He’s got to have a little personality. Not much, but a little.”

The Race to the White House polling average shows Trump up 53% to 22% in a crowded field and 58% to 35% when the field is limited to just Trump and DeSantis.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


5 comments

  • TJC

    June 27, 2023 at 2:32 pm

    Aw shucks, to think we all have to wait for months and months before Donald and Ronald finally understand that they rhyme not only in name but in soul as well. And understand, too, that Donald did indeed come first, followed by Ronald the rhymer, and once that is all sorted out and accepted by all it will be time to announce the ticket: Trump-DeSantis.
    A match made in hell by the Devil himself.

  • Dont Say FLA

    June 27, 2023 at 2:51 pm

    Rhonda will be dropping to their knees in an attempt at Veep. Let’s hope Rhonda get Veep on the Trump ticket, with all benefits in full

  • Earl Pitts American

    June 27, 2023 at 3:24 pm

    Good afternoon America,
    Does anybody remember this?
    “LOCK HER UP LOCK HER UP LOCK HER UP”?
    Well The Donald did not Lock Her Up. Then he lost to 8iden.
    So no you wont be having 4 more years of The Donald.
    Thank you America,
    Earl Pitts American

    • Christians Go To Prison

      June 28, 2023 at 6:05 am

      Donny goes to jail and sings like a bitch ratting his kids out for a reduced sentence of 28 years.

  • Auntie Rhonda, DSF

    June 28, 2023 at 7:41 am

    Auntie Rhonda’s entire campaign platform is based on a futile attempt at keeping the poor white GOP voters from “wokeness,” which, if they ever got woke, they’d realize: Poor whites are the new n_____s.

    Anti-woke is all about keeping poor whites from realizing that they, poor whites, are the the n_____s. Which, they already know, hence all the kicking and screaming, but Rhonda is trying to become US President via a campaign of denialism, telling poor whites “you aren’t shift lazy no good for nothin’s, that’s everybody else’s fault.”

    Before anybody finger points at me for my paraphrase above of Rhonda’s campaign platform, for the OG n_____s it really was everybody else’s fault.

    The OG folk did not pack themselves up and sell themselves and beat themselves into working in the fields for some white guy and then for the next 150 years do everything possible to hold the OG’s down.

    But with these poor whites today? Their social status is squarely on them. They they are today’s n_____s and it’s their own fault.

    Think I’m wrong? Rhonda admits it. Rhonda themselves says “Florida is where woke goes to die.” Every time Rhonda says “FIWWGTD,” they are calling their poor elderly white voting base a bunch of n_____s.

    And on that one point, Rhonda and I agree.

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