A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis claims his “spiel” is resonating with Granite State voters and will help him close a polling gap with not just Donald Trump but also Nikki Haley, the two candidates leading him in polls.
During an interview on “The Pulse of NH,” DeSantis told host Jack Heath that the more time he spends in the state, the better he does.
“What I found when I’m out is I will say, I will do my spiel, or I’ll just meet with voters, and people come up to me and they’ll say, ‘You flipped me from Trump to you. I’m with you now,'” the Governor said.
DeSantis acknowledges that Trump has “got a certain base of support,” but the Governor said “there’s way more people that definitely aren’t going to vote for him. And then there’s a lot of voters who are considering him, but also considering others and he’s very well known, he gets most of the media attention.”
“That’s why I think it’s important to be on the ground in Iowa and New Hampshire,” DeSantis added. “The media can say what they want. When voters are able to kick the tires, shake your hand, ask you a question, listen to your message, that trumps everything else out there.”
The Florida Governor also doesn’t believe the current polling reflects where voters will end up.
“If you look at how this race has gone, you know, you’ve had Trump, you’ve had me, then someone will get up and then they’ll go down, someone will go up and they’ll go down. So I think that’s just kind of the cycle about how that happens,” DeSantis argued.
“But the reality is this party is going to nominate somebody that has a record of delivering on America first principles. And I have that record. I don’t think the other Trump challengers have that same record.”
As we’ve reported before, opinion surveys suggest Granite State voters are fading the Florida Governor.
According to the Race to the White House polling average, his 11% is good for third place, behind Trump (46%) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (15%).
But other polls have shown Haley further ahead in the battle for second place. A USA Today/Boston Globe/Suffolk Poll released earlier this month showed her with 19%, nearly doubling DeSantis’ 10%.
16 comments
My Take
October 24, 2023 at 11:40 am
The only sign of his possibly increasing chances is the increasing numbers of Trump’s lawyers pleading guilty in Georgia.
Michael K
October 24, 2023 at 11:42 am
“Spiel”
INFORMAL
noun
a long or fast speech or story, typically one intended as a means of persuasion or as an excuse but regarded with skepticism or contempt by those who hear it.
“he delivers a breathless and effortless spiel in promotion of his new novel”
This Is Fine
October 24, 2023 at 2:32 pm
He thinks it’s Yiddish 🤦🏻♂️
PeterH
October 24, 2023 at 11:59 am
At this juncture Republicans can pick any one of their Klowns to represent Republican Bobby Jindal’s “PARTY OF STUPID” in the upcoming 2024 primary election.
The Republican Party is bogged down with so much baggage of cultural hate, despair, distrust and disillusionment that they don’t have a chance at winning the White House in the National election.
When your Party members can’t seem to govern themselves…..when your Party reverts to 1950’s paradigms……when your Party has no vision for America’s future!…..why would highly educated Independent voters who actually decide elections vote for them.
Americans only need to take a long look at the forever governed Republican red states like Alabama, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming etc and say to themselves “is this what I want America to become?”
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Joe
October 24, 2023 at 1:00 pm
This angry lil pipsqueak absolutely refuses to deal in specifics of any kind.
This Is Fine
October 24, 2023 at 2:31 pm
Florida state Rep. Randy Fine dropped his longtime support of Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday and announced he’s backing Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. In an op-ed published in The Washington Times, Fine criticized DeSantis for his management of antisemitic incidents in the state amid the Israel-Hamas war. Fine, who is Jewish, wrote, “Eighteen months ago, my Nazi ‘friends’ showed up in Florida. They assaulted a Rabbi. They beat up a Jew who yelled back at one of their protests.” He then noted Trump’s pro-Israel history, including helping organize the Abraham Accords peace treaties between Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates in 2020. “What is going on in the world would not be happening if he was still president. It didn’t happen, because they were afraid of him,” Fine wrote. DeSantis’ press secretary, Bryan Griffin, responded to the op-ed on Tuesday, writing that “there’s never been a more pro-Israel Governor” and citing DeSantis’ efforts to send planes to rescue and bring Americans home from Israel.
Michael K
October 24, 2023 at 3:59 pm
I guess Randy is not going to be a college president.
Michael K
October 24, 2023 at 4:04 pm
Of course, it’s just “Fine” for Randy to bash LGBTQ people and traffic in homophobia and hate.
This Is Fine
October 24, 2023 at 5:45 pm
…and then they came for me
MH/Duuuval
October 25, 2023 at 10:50 am
Fine has “friends” in Vegas.
Ocean Joe
October 24, 2023 at 2:42 pm
Problem: NH is so small a lot of folks meet all the candidates without even trying, especially if they work in Concord or Manchester.
My friend’s dinner out was interrupted by Mike Pence, who went table to table and appears to be a really great, warm guy (aside from his puritanical political leanings).
People have met Desantis.
MH/Duuuval
October 25, 2023 at 10:52 am
Wonder if any of Pence’s right-wing radio monologues exist — from back in the day when he was merely a former MC.
Pastor Pasta
October 24, 2023 at 2:47 pm
No it won’t and no they don’t Tiny D!
My Take
October 24, 2023 at 5:49 pm
‘They beat up a Jew who yelled back at one of their protests.”
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Of course, it’s “fine” for Trump to call for the same thimg.
My Take
October 24, 2023 at 5:53 pm
And DeSSlantis’s long-running disdain for black people was fine with Fine too.
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