DeSantis continues to extend Trump’s lead in the polls — amid the aftermath of his dinner with Kanye and Nick Fuentes and the blame game meanwhile: the former president’s approval rating plummets among Republicans in a dire sign for the 2024 primary matchup
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continued to eat up former President Donald Trump’s long-standing lead in presidential opinion polls in 2024
- A Yahoo News/YouGov poll conducted Dec. 1-5 shows Trump has 35 percent support from Republicans and GOP-affiliated independents
- DeSantis is just five points behind at 30 percent
- When the narrower group of registered voters was asked, DeSantis was just two points behind, with Trump at 35 percent and DeSantis at 33 percent support
- The poll found the percentage of Republicans who have a “very positive” opinion of the ex-president has fallen 12 points — to 42 percent from 54 percent in June
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has continued to eat up former President Donald Trump’s long-standing lead in presidential opinion polls in 2024 – with the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago dinner with Kanye West and white supremacist Nick Fuentes showing no sign show a stop.
A Yahoo News/YouGov poll conducted Dec. 1-5 shows that Trump has 35 percent support from Republican adults or independents who are more Republican.
DeSantis is just five points behind at 30 percent, an increase after his sweeping victory in the Florida gubernatorial race and with Republicans blaming Trump for their disappointing interim results.
When the narrower group of registered voters was asked, DeSantis was just two points behind, with Trump at 35 percent and DeSantis at 33 percent support.
No other Republican contender comes close, with former Vice President Mike Pence and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley getting around 5 percent in polls.
The same poll found that Trump has lost some of his shine among Republicans. In June, 54 percent – a majority – had a “very positive” opinion of the ex-president. Now in December, that figure is 12 points lower at 42 percent.
It’s a terrible sign for Trump, who announced a week after the absence of the “red wave” that he is running for president and is still facing mounting litigation.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (left) continued to eat up former President Donald Trump’s (right) long-standing lead in presidential opinion polls in 2024
Pollsters also asked what Republican voters would do if Trump and DeSantis went head-to-head in the 2024 primary. In the larger group of Republican and GOP-leaning independent adults, the two sit at 42 percent.
Among registered voters, DeSantis even leads with 47 percent ahead of Trump’s 42 percent.
A similar dynamic played out when poll respondents were asked if it would be better to have Trump as the GOP nominee in 2024 or another GOP contender.
The broader group said Trump is by a small margin — 44 percent to 41 percent — outside the poll’s 2.6 percent margin of error.
Among registered voters, the option of another Republican candidate has a slight advantage over Trump — 44 percent versus 43 percent.
In a theoretical duel in the 2024 general election, President Joe Biden has a narrow lead over both Republicans Trump and DeSantis within the poll’s margin of error.
Against Trump, Biden receives 37 percent support versus the ex-president’s 35 percent.
A whopping 17 percent of those surveyed said they would not vote.
Among registered voters, 45 percent would vote for Biden and 42 percent for Trump.
Biden beats DeSantis by 37 to 35 percent.
Again, 17 percent said they would not vote.
Among registered voters, Biden and DeSantis sit at 44 percent support.
Trump’s 2024 bid for the White House got off to a rocky start.
The former president has been largely blamed for Republicans’ underperforming in the midterm elections – with the GOP barely gaining control of the House – after a so-called “red wave” was expected – and Democrats retaining control of the Senate.
Trump announced a week later that he would run for the White House.
Then, a week later, Trump had dinner with disgraced rapper Kanye West and white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
And then this Tuesday, Trump-backed Georgia Senate hopeful Herschel Walker lost his election to Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock.
The former president has been largely blamed for Republicans’ underperforming in the midterm elections – with the GOP barely gaining control of the House – after a so-called “red wave” was expected – and Democrats retaining control of the Senate