Biden lost Florida last November no surprise….
But Florida Governor Ron DeSantis only has a 2% point margin of approval al over disapproval….
Seems like his pandemic policies are causing him problems…
For the guy who was looking like he could steal the lead for Donald Trump a few months ago?
NOT a Good Look…..
Oh?
A MAJORITY of Florida voters do NOT want DeSantis to run FOR President in 2024……
A majority of Florida voters disapprove of President Joe Biden’s job performance, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.
Roughly 53 percent of respondents gave Biden negative marks, compared with 40 percent who approved of the president’s performance seven months into his tenure. Another 7 percent said they were unsure, with the poll carrying a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points….
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Biden lost Florida to President Donald Trump by more than 3 percentage points in last November’s election, despite leading a number of pre-election polls. A deterioration of his poll numbers in the state is a troubling sign for Democrats headed into the 2022 midterms.
By comparison, public opinion on Gov. Ron DeSantis was split 47-45 in favor of the Florida Republican, who is up for reelection in 2022. Only 2 percent of Democrats rated DeSantis’ job performance favorably, while 87 percent of Republican respondents did along with 47 percent of independents, according to Quinnipiac’s poll.
DeSantis has become a lightning rod across the U.S. for his administration’s handling of Covid-19, which has simultaneously elevated his standing among conservatives while making him a high-profile villain on the left. A majority of the Florida voters surveyed, 51 percent, disapproved of DeSantis’ pandemic track record, compared with 46 percent who supported the governor’s approach.
While DeSantis’s handling of coronavirus is a drag on him now, he was in worse shape during last summer’s wave, according to a July 23, 2020, Quinnipiac pollthat showed only 38 percent approved of the way he managed the pandemic at the time while 57 percent disapproved. That put his net approval at -11 percentage points last year, more than double what it is now — even though cases, hospitalizations and deaths are exceeding the last wave’s numbers in Florida overall….
Florida’s as Republican as South Carolina at this point.
DeSantis could still lose against the right challenger, though not one named Charlie Crist.
I would agree with ya SE…….
Rough polling time all around except for ole Terry it seems?
I see the pure silliness has returned.
No,Florida is nowhere near “as Republican as South Carolina.”Making such a statement and “agreeing” with it shows a total lack of knowledge of politics.
In the last presidential election,the margin between Trump and Biden was around 4% whereas in S.C. it was over 12%.
SC hasn’t voted Democratic for President in 45 years whereas Florida did just nine years ago.
S.C. hasn’t elected a Democrat to the US Senate in 26 years while Bill Nelson was a Senator from Florida 5 years ago.
DeSantis winning margin in 2018 was around .5%over the Democrat .the closest a Democrat has come in S.C. this century is 4% in 2010.
I could go on but the point is made.
For sure Florida has been trending Republican but the Democrats are still competitive here and there is no comparison to South Carolina one of the reddest states in the country.
Bring back Fritz Hollings!
It seems to be trending that way, though I’ll admit in retrospect I did overstate FL’s reddening. Perhaps Texas would have been a better analogue in terms of Southern swing states. Almost compared it to Mississippi, but I then realized MS is even more inelastic than other renownedly inelastic states.
I don’t see FL as a realistic spot electorally for Democrats, in any case. Even if they happen into success in the Governor’s race.
Inelastic is probably a good way to describe Mississippi in a lot of ways.
Unlike other southern states that are growing (Texas, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolinas) it’s population has been pretty stagnant. And while growth in GA and TX has primarily been among working urban and suburbanites–causing the states to be more open to Democrats–Florida has growth from retirees from the Midwest who tend to be more conservative causing it to stay the slight tint of red it has been pretty consistently. I can’t speak as much to patterns in NC or SC.