Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has had a glimmer of good news: According to a new poll, he would beat Georgia’s President Joe Biden if the 2024 election were held today.
DeSantis would beat incumbent President Biden by a margin of 45-42, while Trump would lose to Biden for a second time, 44-43, in the poll held from May 15 to May 17.
More importantly for the DeSantis campaign, former President Donald Trump — probably his biggest rival for the nomination — is losing to Biden in the same poll.
Trump could potentially be indicted for electoral interference in the Peach state, but despite that and other scandals, he has been ahead of DeSantis in GOP voter polls in recent weeks.
Florida’s governor — once seen as a dead candidate for the 2024 nomination and future president — is now marking in the polls and looks likely to lose to Trump.
The new Georgia survey has been adopted by Public opinion strategies and also found that former Vice President Mike Pence — who was also plotting a run on the White House — would lose to President Biden 44-43.
The survey shows Biden’s approval ratings in the state, which he won by 11,779 votes, as underwater, with just 38 percent approval and 54 percent disapproval.
As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis prepares to run for president in 2024, he received encouraging polling news from Georgia, a state where Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in 2020.
While the poll doesn’t show how DeSantis would perform one-on-one against Trump or even in a crowded primary, it is the second poll to show him outperforming against Biden than Trump would.
When the same company surveyed Georgia voters in late April, they gave similar results when faced with the hypothetical matchup.
In that poll, they showed DeSantis leading 46-41 over Biden and Trump losing 43-42.
They claimed that Governor DeSantis outperformed Trump among white voters, independent voters, Atlanta residents, and voters 65 and older.
It comes as the former president could face a tricky test in the state, where he could be charged with alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
The Georgia case is progressing and Fulton County DA Fani Willis has already obtained a sealed indictment from a special grand jury.
The decision now rests with her on whether to indict a grand jury to try to charge Trump with illegally interfering in the state’s presidential election.
Some of the key evidence has already been revealed, including Trump’s appeal to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in early 2021.
More importantly for the DeSantis campaign, as Trump may be indicted for electoral interference in the Peach State, the same poll shows the former president losing to Biden again there.
The survey shows Biden’s approval ratings in the state, which he won by 11,779 votes, as underwater, with only 38 percent approval and 54 percent disapproval
DeSantis would beat incumbent President Biden by a margin of 45-42, while Trump would lose to Biden for the second time, 44-43, in the survey conducted from May 15 to May 17
While the poll doesn’t show how DeSantis would perform one-on-one against Trump or even in a crowded primary, it is the second poll to show him outperforming against Biden than Trump would.
Willis began her investigation in February 2021 after the infamous phone call and Trump’s lawyers are trying to get her off the case.
The separate forewoman of the special grand jury gave a series of TV interviews in which she seemed to indicate that a whole range of people could be indicted.
He also faces the investigation of documents found in the Mar-a-Lago raid, further investigation into January 6, the Stormy Daniels case, his New York indictment, and a civil suit in his home state that his company would can hinder.
However, Trump touted a different set of polls in an attempt to mock DeSantis on social media Friday.
“Sorry, but Ron DeSanctimonious is UNELECTABLE, and everyone knows why,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website.
“I am ahead of Biden by 11 points. TWICE AGO, WON TWICE AND DONE MUCH BETTER THE SECOND TIME (THE ELECTION WAS WRONG!). MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” he wrote, describing an election where he trailed Biden by 7 million votes, beating him 306-232 in the Electoral College.
Trump leads DeSantis 56 to 19.9 in the final RealClearPolitics average. That lead has only widened since Trump was found liable for sexual assault in the trial of E. Jean Carroll, while still facing a Jan. 6 federal investigation and federal filings, a New York trial related to his company and a Georgia investigation into his attempt to overthrow the election. over there.
Trump led DeSantis 42-22 in New Hampshire in a UNH poll released last month.