The Washington Times reports the findings of a Public Opinion Strategies poll which went to battleground states and tested voter responses to Biden vs. DeSantis and to Biden vs. Trump. In Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona DeSantis beat Biden while Biden beat Trump, according to this recent poll.
An interesting side note:
Half of the respondents in the Pennsylvania survey strongly agreed with the statement that “there’s no way I would ever vote to elect Donald Trump as president.”
We are sixteen months away from the 2024 election and obviously much can change in that time. Still, at this time DeSantis appears to be more electable in the general election than Trump.
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Postscript: You will see claims in the rabid right wing press that DeSantis is the pawn of the Bush/Romney/Ryan group of never-Trump people, sometimes called GOPe. I disagree.
Those people don't support DeSantis because he is one of them, but because he has the best chance of keeping the nomination out of Trump's hands, a goal they value highly. The evidence is clear that DeSantis is his own guy, not owned by anyone.
Like anybody in politics who isn't wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice, he listens to his big money backers. "Listens" but show me a place where he has acted against his own best interests. Example: the big money guys tend to like unlimited immigration, while he is strongly against it.
