While on his trip to Japan, Ron DeSantis brushed off his declining poll numbers, stating that it’s inconsequential since he’s not officially a candidate running against Donald Trump. Although he hinted at the possibility of his Republican primary candidacy status and poll numbers shifting soon, he refrained from making any announcements.
“I’m not a candidate, so we’ll see if and when that changes,” DeSantis coyly told reporters in Tokyo.
The remarks were made in response to NBC News’ first national primary poll for 2024, which revealed on Sunday that ex-President Trump was leading DeSantis by a margin of 15%.
Despite Governor DeSantis’ persistent avoidance of queries about his potential candidacy, he is still traveling across the country under the pretext of promoting his book – and has now extended his journeys beyond US borders. Following Japan, DeSantis, his wife Casey, and their children are scheduled to visit South Korea, Israel, and the United Kingdom.
Over the past few months, DeSantis had been gradually closing the gap with Trump in polls and had even surpassed him in a few local, regional, and national surveys. However, the recent indictment of Trump in the 2016 hush-money payment case has elevated his position among Republicans.
70% of Republican respondents to NBC’s poll said it’s important right now to rally around the former president due to the charged leveled against him by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. However, it isn’t clear how long this boost in popularity will last for the former president.
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The poll also show that most of those asked believe DeSantis has a better chance of winning the election than Trump, suggesting that as the primaries approach Trump supporters will need to decide if sticking with Trump is worth four more years of Biden.
I would have loved trump president & de Santis his vp
Kennedy is a candidate!
sick atitude , Yes or No-
Go to Japan,
Trump is Garbage Manic, needs to retire
Trump > DeSantis
give him 4 more years then DeSantis can have 8
Wow! I though the faces that he made were parodies. Can’t believe they are real. But, what do you expect from such an incredibly odious, vindictive, arrogant, and disingenuous politician. I hope that he never is President.
wish trump would drop out and endorse him….will never happen though…
Why would you want Trump to endorse him? This guy would be such a disaster. Look how he’s going after Disney because they opposed his bill and then outsmarted him by not letting him take over their district. So he wants to build a jail in Orlando just to get back at them?! He’s just so unprofessional.
He’s much more radical than Trump but people think that he’s some sort of centrist?! How does a radical right president help America get less divided?!
I first got to know him as a authoritarian pretending to be “pro freedom” when he made a law banning any store from using vaccination verification. He forced them to take in possibly infectious people into their stores. I don’t understand why frum people support him. Ok, he passed school vouchers in Florida. But why are we pro unlimited concealed carry and six week abortion laws? This can hurt people following Halacha and also let there be more guns for us to protect against.
Dan The:
Your seem to have reversed your definitions of “freedom” and “authoritarian”.
The shots officially do not prevent infection and do not stop transmission. Therefore, there is no reason that you should care if anyone in your store did or did not get those shots.
Even if they did work as originally promised, it would still be highly anti-American for a private business to be enforcing that.
HaKatan:
Do you think Israel and Bibi Netanyahu made the green pass for fun? I can understand how many Americans could be convinced by the tremendous amount of misinformation that the shots “officially” did not stop infection. Of course, for different variants they didn’t stop infection. But I remember getting the shot in Israel for the first variant (when it went according to ages and people were desperate to get leftovers) by Purim and remember discussing Desantis’ silly ban by Pesach. The shots stopped working for infection maybe by the Delta or Omicron varients. Therefore, like in Israel, the shots definitely stopped against infection and it was Desantis’ anti intellectual, anti science, and populist tendency which was the reason he made this policy.
And even if it were the case (which I don’t belive to be true) that the shot was a scam. That in no way at all means that he was right. Desantis is no smarter than Bibi Netanyahu, ,the entire Israeli, most European countries, and the CDC. They all read the science literature and came to the conclusion. He didn’t want that for political purposes and this cherry picked science which he wanted. So even of that turned out to be true, it’s a coincidence and in no way because he knew better.
Desantis said that he would have fired Dr. Fauci and called him a “little elf.” Is this a serious person? Trump was the president who funded the one of the greatest science initiatives in US history. His rhetoric was strange and not productive (like the bleach and hydroxi stuff) but he never fired Fauci and let the CDC make science recommendations. Desantis would have made a law taking away funding from scientists if they were pro lockdown or vaccine. Just an example of the major difference between the two and how Trump’s flaws are his unprofessional rhetoric but Desantis’ is his pernicious authoritarianism.