Poll shows majority of Florida voters approve of Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis

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A majority of Floridians are still on board with the agendas of both President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis.

That’s according to a new Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy survey that shows 52% of voters in the state approve of Trump’s job performance. A similar 53% are liking the Governor’s work.

Notably, DeSantis’ number is down from 59%, the job approval rating he enjoyed just after his 2022 landslide re-election. But a polling memo says the job ratings for DeSantis are on par with how he polled in 2021 or 2022.

Currently, about 42% of Florida voters disapprove of DeSantis’ job performance, putting the Governor a solid 11 points above water.

DeSantis’ peak popularity in the history of Mason-Dixon polling was in March 2019, when about 62% of voters approved of his work and only 24% disapproved. That was a few months after DeSantis’ first inauguration as Governor, and a significant 14% of voters at that point still said they were not sure how they felt about him.

The closest he came to those levels again was in March 2023, after his re-election, when 59% of voters approved of him and 39% disapproved.

But for Trump, the most recent polling numbers show a marked uptick in his approval ratings.

With 52% approving of his job performance and 44% disapproving, he’s 8 percentage points above water. That puts him in a better position than at the end of his first term in the White House.

The pollster notes that Trump in December 2019 was underwater with Florida voters, with 47% approving of his job performance and 50% disapproving.

Notably, more than half of Hispanic voters support both DeSantis, who boasts 57% approval with that demographic, and Trump, who has a 53% approval.

Women appear sharply split regarding Trump, with 48% approving of the President and 47% disapproving. But 57% of male voters support the President, and just 40% disapprove of the job he has done.

Among independent voters, Trump enjoys a 55% approval rating, while just 37% disapprove. Meanwhile, about 51% approve of DeSantis’ job performance and 42% disapprove.

Mason-Dixon conducted the poll between March 11 and March 25, surveying 625 registered voters by telephone. The pollster reported a 4-percentage-point margin of error.

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