Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has just bested President Donald Trump in a 2024 straw poll at the Western Conservative Summit. This makes the second time that DeSantis has actually beat Trump in the conference’s annual straw poll and could be an early indicator of the GOP’s vision of Trump shifting from presidential prospect to the elder statesman.
In this year’s survey, 71 percent stated that they supported a DeSantis Presidential run, and 67 percent desired Trump to run once again. Poll participants were permitted to pick more than one candidate, however, according to a report from Mediaite.
Support for both candidates does appear to have actually dipped, nevertheless, when taking a look at 2015’s survey numbers. The Florida Governor formerly got 74 percent support, to Trump’s 71 percent.
“Trailing a distance behind the two Republicans were names like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who received 29 percent support and former Trump White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who got 18 percent. She is currently running for governor in Arkansas. Ben Carson also appeared on the list, receiving 24 percent backing,” the Mediaite report states.
In May, as formerly reported, DeSantis bested Trump as the leading choice for 2024 in a Wisconsin Republican Party straw poll.
When provided with a theoretical 2024 GOP field, almost 38 percent of participants backed DeSantis, while Trump was readily apparent in 2nd at 32 percent. None of the other possible prospects made it into the double digits.
WisPolitics reports that 43 percent of the individuals stated that they would like Trump to run once again, while just less than 32 percent were opposed and 22 percent showed that they were not sure.
DeSantis likewise just recently approached Trump as the two front-runners on PredictIt for chances of winning the 2024 election.
Both DeSantis and Trump’s shares were trading at 28 cents, while Joe Biden trailed behind at 23 cents. Trump has actually just recently seen a bump in the chances and is now at 29 cents and DeSantis at 27 cents.
Neither of the two has formally announced that they are running in 2024, though Trump has consistently alluded to another run.
In February, Trump specified that he has already won two times and he will be doing it once again for a “3rd time,” throughout his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
?BREAKING: …he’s running ??
Trump at @CPAC tonight on running in 2024: "We did it twice, and we'll do it again. We'll be doing it again a third time."
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— The Truth Gazette (@Truth_Gazette) February 27, 2022
“We did it twice, and we’ll do it again. We’re going to be doing it again a third time,” Trump said to massive applause. “November 2024 they will find out like never before.”
H/T Timcast
