Poll: Ron DeSantis trails Donald Trump by 47 points in Michigan

Trump DeSantis
The former President has 65% support.

New polling from Michigan shows Gov. Ron DeSantis down by a big margin against Donald Trump.

The Susquehanna Polling and Research survey shows the former President with 65% support, with the Florida Governor’s 18% good for a distant second place. Mike Pence and Vivek Ramaswamy, each with 5% support, are tied for third.

The poll was in the field Sept. 7 through Sept. 12.

The Susquehanna survey is the latest survey to show DeSantis losing to Trump by nearly 50 points.

Trump was the choice of 61% of the GOP voters polled August 1 and 2 by Emerson College, well ahead of DeSantis’ 13%.

DeSantis is closer to Trump in these polls than he was in a Mitchell-MIRS Poll of Michigan survey last month that found him 56 points behind. In that poll, DeSantis still had 13%, with Trump at 69%.

These polls represent a stark contrast to WDIV/Detroit News polling from last year and Echelon Insights polling from February, which showed a toss up between Trump and DeSantis in a hypothetical two-way election. Yet they accord with the Race to the White House polling average in the state, which shows Trump up over DeSantis, 61% to 13%.

DeSantis has been to Michigan this year, delivering speeches to political insiders, while also making a pilgrimage to conservative Hillsdale College where he pledged to turn New College in Sarasota into a “little Hillsdale.” Polls of late have suggested, however, that there is not much of a path for the Florida Governor in the state.

Michigan’s Primary is slated for February 2024, with 55 delegates at stake in a winner-take-all framework if someone gets more than 50% statewide.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


7 comments

  • My Take

    September 18, 2023 at 12:38 pm

    “Speaker McCarthy predicts Trump will be GOP nominee, slams DeSantis as ‘not at the same level'” — Fox News
    ĎullSSantis fails to impress èven his own party leaders.

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  • PeterH

    September 18, 2023 at 12:55 pm

    Michigan will not be installing Trump, DeSantis, Ramaswamy or ANY Republican in the White House in 2024.

    There is not a one Republican Candidate for President in 2024 that hasn’t vowed to ban abortion nationwide if given the chance.

  • Earl Pitts "Political Genious" American

    September 18, 2023 at 12:56 pm

    Relax your Sphincters Dook 4 Brains Leftists,
    No you wont spend your next 4 years screaming at the sky because Trump is once again the POTUS.
    Great news Dook 4 Brains Lrftists you will all be loving life under the Greatest POTUS EVER RON DESANTIS for the next 8 glorious years.
    After Ron’s restored the economey, restored American exceptialism, and made everything great we may allow y’all to put a Dook 4 Brains Lefty POTUS in for 4 years to €ff everything back up again.
    Love y’all too Dook 4 Brains Leftys,
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  • My Take

    September 18, 2023 at 1:46 pm

    I’m glad the GOP can’t nominate a decent conservative. They well might win.

  • My Take

    September 18, 2023 at 2:08 pm

    When the MÀGA’s God-Emperor is defeated again in 2024, thàt’s when it might get intèresting. The Magaots will be spoiling for a fight , but knowing of the 1/6ers in PRISON will dampen the fires. They will smolder.

  • Biscuit

    September 18, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    Poll of Michigan GOP voters: 65% are morons, 18% idiots.
    Stupid humans.
    Arf.

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