A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Governor continues to downplay polls showing Donald Trump handily defeating him and others in next month’s Iowa caucuses.
“I will say this, the people on the ground here, you know, they kind of will just shake their head at some of the polls because, you know, they know the areas where there was rabid Trump support, say in 2016 and 2020. And they say that things have changed on the ground,” Ron DeSantis said on “Morning Joe.”
The Governor’s comments come after new polling from CBS News shows Trump leading DeSantis in the pivotal state, 58% to 22%, with Nikki Haley at 13%.
Despite the 36-point gap in what has been the best poll for DeSantis in months, the Florida Governor believes that it’s “baked in the cake” that Trump would seek to cast doubt on a DeSantis victory in the state, should it happen.
“We win Iowa and then he’ll say something, but people aren’t going to buy that, especially here in Iowa,” DeSantis predicted.
The Governor also chided a “concerted effort” from Trump to say “why even bother having people vote.”
“That is not the way people feel on the ground here in Iowa. Once that (voting) starts happening, I think there’s a lot of clarity and you know, people have said from the beginning about how there were so many candidates running, but the field has narrowed already before Iowa,” DeSantis said, adding that observers are “going to continue seeing that (narrowing) after the first few Primaries.”
DeSantis is in Iowa all week for various events before his campaign takes a Christmas break from the trail in the Hawkeye State. But plans are they will return again before the New Year.
9 comments
Elmo
December 18, 2023 at 12:58 pm
DeSantis says ” You know” more than a valley girl. Like, oh my god!
Tom
December 18, 2023 at 1:49 pm
Wonder what he’ll be saying after he gets beaten like a rented mule in the Iowa caucus because half the people who live there winter in Florida and won’t be around to vote? Fun times indeed.
My Take
December 18, 2023 at 4:02 pm
I’d love to see DeSSpinit beat or nearly beat Trump in Iowa.
The salvos of thunderous lies from Trump would be like battleship broadsides.
Put some energy in the campaign!
Domonick Josten
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 pm
What lies, my liberal nut job.
Dont Say FLA
December 18, 2023 at 6:55 pm
I might like to see that too, but for different reasons. Trump says if he loses, it was rigged and stolen. Might be fun to watch the tiki-torch crowd chanting “Hang Rhonda” while hunting him on a regular everyday tour .
tom palmer
December 18, 2023 at 5:31 pm
we[ll find out in a few weeks.
Domonick Josten
December 18, 2023 at 6:12 pm
What lies, my liberal nut job.
My Take
December 19, 2023 at 10:55 am
If you were fully literate (homeschooled? churchschooled?) you would note that the lies would take place in the future.
So how would I know specifically what they would be?
Dont Say FLA
December 18, 2023 at 6:53 pm
Rhonda has no idea everyone’s learned to tell him “Yes, I support you” if perchance they encounter him despite all attempts at avoiding him.
Absolutely nobody wants to listen to Rhonda grovel or whine or complain it’s stolen if he loses or talk crap about drag queens, Disney, women, etc, the list goes on.
If necessary, most people would chew their own leg off to get away from Rhonda.
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