A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis has touted his Rust Belt roots as a unique selling point in Pennsylvania.
Yet a new poll shows that message is only resonating with 1 out of every 10 Republican Presidential Primary voters, and that he continues to shed support in the state.
The Quinnipiac survey finds former President Donald Trump leading the field, with 61% support among registered Republican voters in Pennsylvania.
In a distant second, yet 4 points ahead of the Florida Governor, is former United Nations Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. She has 14% support.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (6%) and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy (4%) round out the field.
The survey was conducted from Jan. 4 through Jan. 8, with 651 self-identified registered Republican voters polled, and a margin of error of +/- 3.8 percentage points.
Other polls have shown declining support for DeSantis. An October Franklin & Marshall (F&M) Poll showed DeSantis at 14%, 41 points behind Trump. A previous Quinnipiac University poll conducted between Sept. 28 and Oct. 3 also showed DeSantis at 14%.
All told, DeSantis looks poorly positioned to take the state’s trove of 67 delegates, allocated on a winner-take-all basis.
DeSantis took a trip to the Keystone State earlier this year, before he launched his campaign formally. The Governor addressed Republicans at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in Harrisburg, offering largely familiar remarks in a speech that was well-received by the GOP faithful.
In recent months, DeSantis has played up his roots in the Rust Belt regions of Pennsylvania and neighboring Ohio as being key to surviving the left-wing crucibles of Yale and Harvard Law School.
He offered a reminiscence in his best-selling book, “The Courage to be Free.”
“I was geographically raised in Tampa Bay,” DeSantis writes, “but culturally my upbringing reflected the working-class communities in western Pennsylvania and northeast Ohio — from weekly church attendance to the expectation that one would earn his keep. This made me God-fearing, hard-working and America-loving.”
18 comments
Michael K
January 10, 2024 at 3:06 pm
So Proud of Ron. So many lows – so many more to come!
Tom
January 11, 2024 at 11:22 am
What’s that old saying? Something like “so low/short he could limbo under a snake’s belly” Seems apropos in this case.
Betsy Ross
January 10, 2024 at 3:40 pm
DeSantis is hands down the most effective Governor FL has ever had.
The media and the left hate him because he is a conservative who graduated from Yale and Harvard- has moral fortitude and defends Main Street Americans and the United States Constitution. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Go Ron God Bless you!!
The Dude
January 10, 2024 at 3:50 pm
You are correct Betty. The media has been after him since day one. The media and these left wing lunatics that post on this board would rather Trump get the nomination over DeSantis because the media and the Dems know they can beat Trump with “Dementia” Joe. DeSantis would easily defeat “Dementia” Joe.
Tom
January 11, 2024 at 8:05 am
There was an article in Politico a few days back called “Why the media hates Desantis” – take a look if you get some time. It spells out exactly why he has “has had the most comprehensively negative media coverage of any presidential candidate in memory” – basically, he bought it all on himself.
PeterH
January 11, 2024 at 9:04 am
Exactly!
Dont Say FLA
January 10, 2024 at 4:28 pm
Ivy League sure whooped Disney over their stance on whatever it was. Drag queens, was it? I forget, ’cause nobody’s interested in Rhonda’s “moral fortitude” or his “defense of Main Street Americans” or the, wait what? The US Constitution? He defended the Constitution .. from what?
Are you a Main Street American? How’s your insurance bill since Rhonda took office?
Rhonda blames the weather and fraud for Florida having insufferably high insurance rates. Evidently he learned at his elite Ivy League schools that weather and fraud happen exclusively in Florida, lol.
Has Rhonda been effective? Yeah, at emboldening Nazi wannabee losers all around Florida. Otherwise? Not so much.
Ron
January 11, 2024 at 8:52 am
Yes and don’t say gay or you’ll be unemployed
And if you run Disney, don’t run AF all of the law. Because he’s wasting millions of taxpayer dollars defending a suit he’s going to lose
Ron
January 11, 2024 at 8:53 am
We have an insurance crisis in this state. We have a water crisis. Climate change is real and he’s out in iowa playing elect me president
PeterH
January 11, 2024 at 9:03 am
DeSantis’s Florida policies stink ….. and the Republican American electorate know it!
Betsy Ross
January 10, 2024 at 4:13 pm
If Trump were to win the nomination and White House by some miracle if some left wing court doesn’t convict him he’d be a lame duck from day 1.
McConnell will pick some uniparty center left R to lead he Senate like Thune to throw him under bus.
DeSantis would have 8 years and let it be known who should lead the dysfunctional Senate . DeSantis would begin fixIng this country beginning Day 1. Border closed. Produce American oil the list is endless what he could accomplish. 🇺🇸🇺🇸⚔️💪🏻
Tjb
January 10, 2024 at 4:37 pm
Hey Betty…. I heard that the USA had a record year in oil production. And it is the House that is dysfunctional, not the Senate.
Also, did you know that Betsy was blind later in her life. I mention this because it appears that you are blind to the facts.
Tom
January 11, 2024 at 11:18 am
That’s the problem with denial. Reality doesn’t care what you think. It just keeps rolling along. 🙂
Earl Pitts "Sage Political Expert Emeritas" American
January 10, 2024 at 4:32 pm
Sage wisdom Betsy and Dude,
DeSantis gets the brunt of the lefty media hate.
I do worry about the swarney leftists producing 8 Million Illegal boarder crossers ballots. But I worry even more about our Conservatives resolve to challange those 8 Million illegal votes.
If that all blows up and goes to Hell I expect the left to just go belly up to China, Putin, Little Kim, and the Muzzy Mullahs.
This is our make it or break it election for The USA.
Earl Pitts American
Betsy Ross
January 10, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Very true Earl.
Pray for DeSantis tonight. Nikki Haley is not qualified and is a puppet of the Chamber and Wall Street uniparty
DeSantis is the only candidate who can save America and actually drain the swamp not give lip service.
Hamas Villages, Florida
January 10, 2024 at 8:57 pm
Another filthy Christian, Betsey Wrong.
My Take
January 11, 2024 at 3:39 am
DeSSantis appears sunk.
No loss. A loudmouth redneck panderer. That is, panderer to rednecks. No normal person likes him. What’s to like.
PeterH
January 11, 2024 at 8:59 am
DeSantis knows he’s history at this point. A poor showing in last night’s debate should throw him under the Republican Primary 2024 Clown Bus!
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