A survey among the party’s conservative barons gives the governor of the southern state an advantage ahead of the next presidential elections
Donald Trump is the leader, but the GOP believes it will be better served at the polls if it names a fresh face, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a supporter of the former president who competes with him in headlines.
In the vote that took place last weekend at the Summit of Conservatives of the North American West in Aurora (Colorado), 71% of the Republican politicians present chose De Santis to represent them in the next presidential elections of 2024 , compared to 67.7% obtained by Trump. The difference was not abysmal, but for Trump a defeat is a defeat. And above is the second.
DeSantis also won this same opinion sample last year by a similar margin, 74.1% versus 71.4%, far behind other alternatives such as state congressman Ron Hanks. Neither of the two politicians has formally presented his candidacy, but everyone scrutinizes his possibilities in these unscientific polls that are made among the barons of the party.
Trump campaigns periodically with massive rallies throughout the country that serve to give him mass baths and fatten the fundraising figures for that potential campaign. DeSantis is using his platform as governor of Florida to pass sensational laws that excite Trump supporters, such as stripping Disney of its tax privileges or banning the use of the word gay in elementary schools.
Clearly, either of the two is committed to extracting votes from those most extreme sectors that polarize the United States. Nobody has any doubt that Trump ardently wants the second term that the polls denied him in November 2020, the question is whether his legal problems and will give him the health to do so, at the age of 78 that he will have in 2020. At the moment, neither of these two reasons prevents him from doing so.
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