A.G. Gancarski
More polling from the Lone Star State shows that despite his trademark cowboy boots, Texas Republicans believe Ron DeSantis is all hat and no cattle.
The latest University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll finds the Governor yet again in low double digits in the state, nearly 50 points behind former President Donald Trump.
“None of the Republican candidates challenging Trump for the GOP presidential nomination appear to be posing a substantial threat to the former president’s front runner status in Texas, where 62% of registered voters planning to vote in the GOP primary chose him as their top choice,” reads the polling memo accompanying the results.
“Florida governor Ron DeSantis was a distant second, with 13%, followed by former (South) Carolina governor and Trump-appointed ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who was the choice of 7%. Seven other candidates were the choice of 3% or less.”
This is bad news for DeSantis, who is poorly positioned based on these results to get the 162 delegates Texas will dole out March 5, 2024. Trump’s 49-point lead mirrors the Race to the White House polling average, which shows the former President leading 60% to 10% in polling of the full field.
DeSantis brought his campaign to Texas earlier this summer, calling attention yet again to undocumented immigrants entering at the Mexican border and delivering tough talk.
He vowed to use “deadly force” via the U.S. military when asked during a news conference after his campaign event, saying that if some “cartel operatives” got “dropped,” it would change their attitude.
Yet despite threats there and elsewhere to leave unwanted border crossers “stone cold dead,” the latest survey offers more evidence of a moribund DeSantis operation in a key Republican state.
11 comments
Michael K
October 25, 2023 at 8:45 am
But he’s in second place!
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Roy
October 25, 2023 at 10:35 am
Second place to a guy who will be behind bars by the time the election rolls around. That’s how pathetic the GOP field is.
MH/Duuuval
October 25, 2023 at 10:45 am
Norman Thomas, a Socialist, got a million votes while in federal prison for opposing US involvement in WWI.
Trump’s cause — Himself — is ignoble.
My Take
October 25, 2023 at 8:58 pm
The US duting WWI and for a number of yrars afterwards resembled today a bit. Quasifascist or headed there. Puritanical and censoring in literature and entertainment. Search for enemies, internal and external. Declining ethos of federal judiciary.
MH/Duuuval
October 26, 2023 at 11:07 am
Agreed.
As white racists were hunting down Black soldiers in uniform, they also were lynching socialists in uniform.
End Corruption
October 25, 2023 at 11:03 am
Wake up DeSantis! The Chickens have come home to roost. Once you embarrass yourself by finishing 3rd in the Florida Republican Primary as sitting governor of Florida, the rest of the legislature will abandon you as a lame duck. You allowed your corrupt mafia of Lt. Governor Jeannette Nunez, Senator Bryan Avilla, former Senator and Education Secretary Manny Diaz Jr., and lobbyist David Custin to ram their own personal agendas and vendettas under the power and authority you vested in them. Now that they realize you have zero chance of being the Republican Presidential nominee and have no power to offer cabinet appointments, judicial appointments or ambassadorships, they can tell you and your crew of henchmen and henchwoman, how they really feel about you and how you have run Florida and the Legislature for the past 6 years. You essentially have no future in politics Mr. Governor and thankfully neither do your henchmen and henchwoman.
My Take
October 25, 2023 at 9:03 pm
His extra-lame duckism is going to be interesting to watch.
MH/Duuuval
October 26, 2023 at 11:12 am
You are killing your chance to be named a college president.
Dont Say FLA
October 26, 2023 at 5:34 pm
The special session of Florida state legislature in a week or so, said to be something about Israel or some such nonsense, is about Florida reverising its big mistake: A bish called Rhonda. Rhonda will lose his exemption from Resign to Run. That’s the stuff. I guarantee it. And you can take that to the bank!
Biscuit
October 25, 2023 at 11:20 am
Big news out of big Texas: Poll of GOP voters reveals 13% of them are big idiots, and 62% of them are big morons.
Everything’s big in Texas.
Stupid humans.
Arf.
MH/Duuuval
October 26, 2023 at 11:10 am
Hence the term ten-gallon galoots.
No chance Ron Dee would sign on as Trump’s VP?
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