Ron DeSantis is no longer Donald Trump’s main rival for the Republican 2024 presidential nominee position as Florida’s Governor continues to lose ground to the outside candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, reports the Rupert Murdoch-owned Times of London.
DeSantis’s decline in support has been precipitous since he declared his candidacy in May. The most recent National Republican Primary poll from Harvard/Harris put him at 12 percent just days after he broke his own record for the lowest amount of forecasted delegate votes. Ramaswamy, on the other hand, has climbed into double figures, polling at ten percent, representing a huge jump in support over the past month.
Harvard/Harris found DeSantis suffered further losses to Ramaswamy once Trump was excluded from the running. Pollsters asked: “If former President Donald Trump does not run for president in 2024, who would you vote for in the GOP primary?” DeSantis is down 12 points to just 29 percent. Ramaswamy took all 12 points away from DeSantis and rose to third place with 19 percent.
“Ramaswamy outperformed six other hopefuls by more than double, marking a significant surprise in this poll. While DeSantis remains a top-tier candidate among non-Trump choices, he now shares this status with Ramaswamy,” stated the founder of Kaplan Strategies, Doug Kaplan.
Murdoch’s papers such as the New York Post as well as his broadcast channels such as Fox News have typically been supportive of the failing Florida Governor, who fired more staff from his car crash campaign on Tuesday, shortly after he got into an actual car crash.
