DeSantis approval shrinks in latest GOP primary poll

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) affect on a possible 2024 presidential run could also be dropping its power if latest polling launched Friday is any indicator.

The ballot outcomes present DeSantis trailing behind former President Donald Trump, with Trump at 46% in opposition to DeSantis’s 23%. The newest tally is a 5% drop in assist for DeSantis in comparison with final month, when the Florida governor trailed Trump by 20% in the identical ballot, in accordance with Harvard CAPS/Harris Ballot information launched solely to The Hill.

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Different particulars from the polls spell extra concern for DeSantis, as his standing in a hypothetical GOP major with out Trump has additionally decreased. Respondents within the ballot acknowledged that 39% of GOP voters would again DeSantis for the Republican nomination if Trump was not operating, although the proportion continues to be 10% decrease in comparison with a month prior.

The ballot, performed from Feb. 15-16, surveyed a complete of 1,838 registered voters. The survey doesn’t report a likelihood confidence interval as a result of it being a consultant on-line pattern.

Whereas DeSantis faltered a bit within the newest polling, different Republicans skilled a lift of their assist for a doable 2024 bid. Former Vice President Mike Pence rose to 17% within the newest ballot. In distinction, Nikki Haley, the previous United Nations ambassador, and South Carolina governor who introduced her presidential run earlier this week, noticed her assist enhance to 10%, a rise of 5% in comparison with final month.

DeSantis, who skilled a significant victory within the 2022 Florida gubernatorial election and has been seen as a powerful contender for the 2024 presidential election, has not but introduced whether or not he’ll run. On Tuesday, DeSantis was requested if he would run within the subsequent presidential election after Haley introduced her run, to which he responded, “would not you wish to know.”

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President Joe Biden nonetheless has not introduced if he’ll search reelection, although White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated that he intends to run in 2024.

“What I can say is repeat what the president has stated many occasions is that he intends to run. And I depart it there,” Jean-Pierre informed Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC’s The Sunday Present.