A.G. Gancarski
Yet another poll of the Republican presidential primary landscape shows rugged terrain ahead for Ron DeSantis.
The Echelon Insights survey shows the Governor with 7% support, putting him not just behind Vice President JD Vance’s 44%, but also former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s 8%.
DeSantis performs very poorly with voters under 50, drawing 4% support. This puts him behind Haley, Vance, and Vivek Ramaswamy, and ties him with Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Secretary of State Marco Rubio with the younger set.
Among older voters, DeSantis has 10% support, and that backing among the more mature demographics is what puts him in third place overall.
His best demographic is the statistical sliver of Black voters polled; the Governor has 15% support there. He also has 12% support among people who went to graduate school.
The 7% showing is marginally better than the 6% DeSantis got in recent Rasmussen and Daily Mail polls.
It’s on track with other recent performances.
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.
DeSantis said last year that he hasn’t “ruled anything out” and will “see what the future holds.” But thus far, voters don’t see DeSantis as DeFuture.
