DeSantis eats further into Trump’s lead in the polls

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has further eaten away at former President Donald Trump’s longstanding lead in 2024 presidential opinion polls, and the fallout from the Mar-a-Lago dinner with Kanye West and the white supremacist Nick Fuentes show no signs of stopping.

A Yahoo News/YouGov poll conducted December 1-5 shows Trump received 35 percent support from adult Republicans or independents who lean 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 midterm results.

When asked the narrowest group of registered voters, DeSantis trailed just two points, 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 around 5 percent.

The same poll found that Trump has lost some of his luster among Republicans. In June, 54 percent – a majority – had a “very favorable” opinion of the former president. Now, in December, that number is 12 points lower, at 42 percent.

It’s a dire sign for Trump, who announced he would run for president a week after the “red wave” failed to materialize and is still facing escalating legal battles.

The pollsters also asked what Republican voters would do if there was a showdown between Trump and DeSantis in the 2024 primary. In the largest group of Republican- and Republican-leaning independent adults, the two are tied at 42 percent.

Among registered voters, DeSantis actually leads: 47 percent to Trump’s 42 percent.

A similar dynamic played out when poll participants were asked whether it would be better to have Trump as the Republican nominee in 2024 or another Republican contender.

The broader group said Trump by a small margin, 44 percent to 41 percent, was outside the poll’s 2.6 percent margin of error.

Among registered voters, the choice of a different Republican candidate has a slight advantage over Trump: 44 percent to 43 percent.

President Joe Biden holds a narrow lead over Republicans Trump and DeSantis in a notional 2024 general election matchup, within the poll’s margin of error.

Against Trump, Biden gets 37 percent support compared to 35 percent for the former president.

A staggering 17 percent of those polled said they would not vote.

Among registered voters, 45 percent would choose Biden and 42 percent would choose Trump.

Biden leads DeSantis 37 percent to 35 percent.

Once again, 17 percent said they would not vote.

Among registered voters, Biden and DeSantis are tied with 44 percent support.

Trump’s 2024 White House bid got off to a rocky start.

The former president was largely blamed for the poor performance of Republicans in the midterms, with the GOP barely gaining control of the House, after a so-called ‘red wave’ was expected, and Democrats maintaining control of the House. Senate.

Trump announced that he would be running for the White House a week later.

Then, a week after that, Trump dined 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 Sen. Raphael Warnock.