A.G. Gancarski
Yet another poll of Republicans shows Florida’s Governor with a lot of ground to make up if he runs for President in 2028.
The Daily Mail poll shows that whether Donald Trump runs for an unconstitutional third term or not, Ron DeSantis is in single digits.
If Trump runs, he takes 39% support. Vice President JD Vance draws 19%. And DeSantis is at 6%, doubling up another Florida man: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has 3%.
Without Trump in the field, Vance takes 48%, with DeSantis at 8%. Rubio is further back, with 5% support.
One scenario shows DeSantis at 10%, however, and that’s if Donald Trump Jr. runs.
Vance would take 40%, with Trump Jr. 11% and Rubio at 3%.
DeSantis said last year that he hasn’t “ruled anything out” and will “see what the future holds.” Yet these numbers are about where DeSantis has been in these surveys of a very much hypothetical 2028 Primary field.
A survey from Atlas Intel conducted between April 10 and April 14, showed DeSantis and Rubio at 9%, far behind the Vice President’s 60%.
A Yale Youth Poll released this month shows DeSantis at 8% overall. In that survey, he’s just behind HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., who sits at 9%.
April’s Echelon Insights survey has the Governor at 9%.
In his best performance recently, an April Overton Insights poll shows him at 13% among Republican and Republican-leaning voters and 14% among strictly GOP-registered voters.
A YouGov survey in the field from March 30 through April 1 shows that while 8% of Republicans and GOP-leaning respondents back the former 2024 candidate making a second run, 10% of respondents would be disappointed if he were nominated.
A January survey from McLaughlin & Associates had DeSantis at 8%, behind Vance and Donald Trump Jr.
At a straw poll conducted at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, DeSantis mustered 7% support, finishing far behind Vance’s 61% and also behind Steve Bannon, whose 12% support surprised many observers.
According to one survey, DeSantis couldn’t win his home state.
A survey released exclusively to Florida Politics by Fabrizio Lee & Associates shows Vance would defeat the Governor 47% to 33%.
However, it’s not all rejection for Ron.
A YouGov poll released this month showed DeSantis with the best net favorability among conservatives.
Yet that doesn’t seem to buoy him in presidential preference polls.
8 comments
Foghorn Leghorn
May 3, 2025 at 8:38 am
JD Vance will be the nominee. You can stop writing about this, it only feeds the anti-DeSantis people. I just hope JD can hang with either Kamana or AOC in a debate. 🤣
Ocean Joe
May 3, 2025 at 9:24 am
Ed, you’re correct. Nothing brightens the day like hearing this ‘wildly popular’ pompous woke warrior, who slayed the Drag Queens and sued Disney, and frittered away tons of taxpayer money on his own personal political ambitions, doling out favors while ignoring Florida’s real problems and making some worse, is finally coming up against some opposition. Now he has his own Centene scandal so his polling numbers may go up among Republicans. Michael K is right, the charisma void is an unfixable problem. He is who he is as are we all. If he is lucky, Trump will fire his incompetent defense secretary and hand Desantis a lifeline to a political future…but we all know, or should know what a vindictive monster sits in the White House.
Michael K
May 3, 2025 at 8:54 am
Over zealous overreach, a personality deficit, and whiny sense of entitlement – along with using Floridians as lab rats for Project 2025 — all helped doom the self-anointed “America’s Governor” to wade in single digits wearing white go-go boots.
Looks like the faux hillbilly sporting eyeliner – another Ivy League populist poser – has taken the lead.
MH/Duuuval
May 3, 2025 at 9:59 am
JD doesn’t care to debate if he can’t control the questions being asked, as he showed in the VP debate last year, whining that his patent lies should not be debate grist.
Pritzker or Gov. Mills of Maine would kick JD’s arse In a debate. So would AOC, especially once JD starting looking down his Ivy League nose at the former restaurant employee. She is accustomed to dealing with “omniscient” males.
Time for Kamala to head home to CA and run for governor.
Foghorn Leghorn
May 3, 2025 at 10:20 am
JD called out those two media activists in the VP debate last year. He is a very skilled debater. Tampon Tim on the other hand.
George
May 3, 2025 at 9:59 am
As long as he keeps laundering Medicaid funds, at least have some money.
PeterH
May 3, 2025 at 12:29 pm
DeSantis and Vance have the same chance of winning in 2028 as Marjorie Taylor Green has securing enough votes to be a Senator from Georgia!
What about our $10 Million
May 3, 2025 at 6:05 pm
Ron is not presidential timber, period. He will NEVER be POTUS. Sadly, he has not figured that out yet. With $10 M gone from the taxpayers, hopefully he’ll be in prison.