DeSantis still trails Trump a lot nationally, and now he’s showing some potentially fatal weaknesses in the early states as rivals creep up on him.
, though hardly terminal trouble. He’s in a squeeze between Trump’s steady grip on about half the primary electorate and improved showings by a couple of the dark-horse candidates eager to replace him as the principal challenger to the 45th president.
show Trump at 51 percent and DeSantis at 19.3 percent. Trump has now led the Florida governor by more than 30 points in the RCP averages since May 9. More significantly, DeSantis has lost more than a third of his support since the end of March, when he was at 30.1 percent in these averages. And while no other candidate is in immediate striking distance of DeSantis nationally, biotech entrepreneur and anti-woke agitatorAs recently as a couple of weeks ago, the DeSantis campaign wasnervous donors and other supporters not to worry about national polls because it was totally focused on the early states that would actually shape the race. That’s why recent early-state polling should be particularly troubling to Team RDS. The newmentioned above wasn’t that bad: It showed DeSantis picking up one point since UNH’s last New Hampshire poll in April, while Trump lost five points, leaving the former president up by 14 points . But the rest of the field has gained ground significantly with Scott at 8 percent, Christie and Doug Burgum at 6 percent, and Ramaswamy and Haley at 5 percent. If, as one might expect, some of these candidates get “culled” by Iowa, the non-Trump, non-DeSantis vote might consolidate around a survivor or two. But the bigger dose of bad news for DeSantis comes from those two Fox Business surveys in Iowa and South Carolina. Sparsely polled Iowa has been a source of much optimism for the Florida governor’s campaign. He
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