DeSantis' culture wars appear to have cost him support among a shrinking group of deep-pocketed conservatives.
' culture war have begun to spread against private sector industries like agriculture and construction.
According to a newly released CNBC survey of America's millionaires, DeSantis' support among upper-crust conservatives has fallen from 54 percent to 32 percent among millionairesince last December, while Trump—whom many shunned in 2016 and 2020—has seen his support jump by nearly a dozen points among millionaires since the end of 2022, leaving him just four points behind his chief rival in the 2024 Republican primaries.
Highly regarded by the state's business community in a 2021 survey by the Florida Chamber of Commerce, DeSantis' brand has grown increasingly polarizing as he seeks to court a plurality of the Republican electorate ahead of the 2024 primaries. Some of the policies he's pursued to accomplish that, however, have already made an impression.
More recently, a statewide mandate on private employers to engage in a program to verify their employees' citizenship status has already begun to backfire,amid a burgeoning exodus of laborers already being reported in pockets of the agricultural and construction sectors.
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