Commentary
Things aren’t looking good for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in his (still unannounced, but highly likely) quest for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination as of May 9.
He trails former President Donald Trump by a whopping 41 percentage points (60–19) in a Morning Consult poll taken May 5 to 7. In other words, Trump has more than three times the support of DeSantis, according to this poll.
It’s one of the Florida governor’s poorest showings of the several dozen recorded by Real Clear Politics for over a year now. The average already showed Trump ahead by 29.1 points even without this latest poll.
It’s questionable that an “official” announcement at this point is going to alter the numbers all that much….