A.G. Gancarski
Yet another national survey of Republicans shows Florida’s Governor in third place in the 2024 presidential race.
A new RMG Research poll, reported first by the conservative Daily Signal website, shows Ron DeSantis with 8% support nationally. This puts him behind Donald Trump, who has 60% support, and the surging Vivek Ramaswamy, who has 13%.
DeSantis is ahead of some other heavyweights, however, including Chris Christie (5%), Mike Pence and Nikki Haley (4% each), and Tim Scott (2%).
That positive note aside, the poll suggests attrition in the DeSantis position, with Christie and Ramaswamy the main beneficiaries. The Governor dropped 7 points since the last Rasmussen poll was in the field a week prior, while Christie gained 4 points and Ramaswamy picked up 3 points.
The poll was in the field from Aug. 11 through Aug. 14, with a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points. It is the latest survey released this month that shows a DeSantis decline.
A Kaplan Strategies survey of 800 likely voters in the GOP Primary contest shows DeSantis just behind Ramaswamy, with 10% support compared to 11% for the entrepreneur and author. Both men are way behind Trump (48%). That poll was released on Monday.
Also, DeSantis has just 10.4% support in a Cygnal survey conducted from Aug. 1 through Aug. 3, putting him 1 point behind Ramaswamy (11.4%). Trump leads in that poll with 53.3% support.
Despite these polls, the Florida Governor is still in second place in the overall Race to the White House polling average. There, DeSantis is second only to Trump, 54% to 15%. Ramaswamy, at 7%, is a distant third.
5 comments
You Might Be a Redneck
August 16, 2023 at 8:53 am
If you’re a GOP Presidential Primary candidate and a brownish guy’s poll numbers are 62% better than your own…
Ape Ron
August 16, 2023 at 8:54 am
Nice Apron, Ron. Get back in the kitchen and make Trump a pie.
Flip Flop Rhonda
August 16, 2023 at 9:33 am
LOL @ Rhonda and Jill and Gaycakes James suddenly being fine with the sexualization and indoctrination of children they accused Disney of.
Here’s hoping for Rhonda’s sake that they backed everything up before that last reboot, ’cause the blue screen of death saying “Operating System Not Found On Sector Zero” is all that’s there now.
My guess is they needed updates and patches rather than a reboot.
Approaching Reality
August 16, 2023 at 9:42 am
It’s not that the DeSantis Campaign is falling. It’s that poll results are closing in on reality.
Like over in Maui, the number of dead isn’t increasing (unless somebody currently alive were, sadly, to die). The count of FOUND dead is what’s increasing. The dead are all already dead. They just haven’t been counted yet. (Nor have their 2024 votes for Trump, lol)
Speaking of Trump, in 2020, Trump was not ahead when folks went to bed, and Trump’s number of votes didn’t fall behind over night. Trump had lost the election when the polls closed. It just took all night to tally the votes and report the official count.
Trump’s number of votes never changed after the polls closed. Each candidate had as many votes at poll closing time as they were going to get.
With tens of thousands of voting precincts in at least six times zones across the USA, it took a while to determine, in the official and legal manner, the number of votes that had been cast for each candidate. The numbers never changed. The counts change on their path toward the numbers. And why? Because: That’s how counting works.
Jeffrey J Ward
August 17, 2023 at 12:35 pm
If DeSantis took a less hardcore MAGA approach, his last man strategy might have some razor thin chance of working and winning the nomination. New Fox poll shows that 46% of Republicans, 97% of Dems and 88% of Independents think Trump did something illegal or something wrong but not illegal. But it is too late for DeSantis to change his stripes and take advantage of this obvious opening. And how many small donors does DeSantis really have? I suspect not very many and he seems to be playing hide the ball so the public does not know how few grassroots supporters he has.
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