A poll of the party’s conservative barons gives southern state governor a head start ahead of next presidential election
Donald Trump is the leader, but the GOP believes it will do better in the polls if it names a new face, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a supporter of the former president who competes with him in the 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 in attendance chose De Santis to represent them in the next 2024 presidential election, compared to 67.7 % obtained by Trump. The difference wasn’t terrible, but for Trump, defeat is defeat. And above is the second.
DeSantis also won the same opinion sample last year by a similar margin, 74.1% vs. 71.4%, far behind other alternatives like state congressman Ron Hanks. Neither politician has formally presented his candidacy, but everyone is exploring his options in these unscientific polls being held among the party’s barons.
Trump periodically campaigns with mass rallies across the country serving to give him mass baths and fatten the fundraising numbers for that potential campaign. DeSantis uses his platform as Florida governor to pass sensational laws that excite Trump supporters, such as robbing Disney of its tax privileges or banning the use of the word gay in elementary schools.
Obviously, one of the two is committed to getting votes from those most extreme sectors that are polarizing the United States. No one doubts Trump fervently wants the second term the polls denied him in November 2020, whether his legal problems and will give him the health to do so, at the age of 78 he will be in 2020. At this point, neither of these two reasons is stopping him from doing so.
Source: La Verdad
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