In a new round of polling measuring prospective voters’ opinions of the GOP presidential primary field in Florida, that state’s second-term GOP Governor Ron DeSantis is out ahead of Donald Trump by single digits — enough, of course, to hand him the state in the primary, should he decide to run.
As it’s among the more populated states in the nation, Florida will have a lot of delegates to offer for the Republican Party’s eventual nominating convention happening next year. DeSantis has also seen very positive results in single-state polling conducted in California, which, since it has a large population, is in the same category. In Florida, the results showed DeSantis with 44 percent of the support, while Trump, who has largely resided there since leaving office, had 39 percent. Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and past ambassador in the Trump administration, who has actually announced a candidacy for president, finished with just three percent, so it doesn’t seem her campaign is going much of anywhere. Considering her suspicious lack of apparent interest in actually directly confronting Trump, she might just be doing something like aiming to become Donald’s pick for VP.
The survey was the work of Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy, Inc., which is highly rated as a firm by the elections data and analysis site FiveThirtyEight, which gives it an “A,” indicating a positive record for numbers from that polling source. Much of the polling done in the primary has shown Trump leading, but the trend of DeSantis sometimes toppling the ex-president has continued.
