This poll seems to align with the previous forecast predictions. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has spent a great deal of time in South Carolina over the past two weeks. The result, he’s dropped from second to third place. The more voters get to see DeSantis, the lower his in-state polling becomes.
DISCLAIMER – South Carolina is an open primary, vulnerable to Big Club shenanigans.
President Trump has a clear lead in the Palmetto state at 48% according to the latest Fox (Shaw Research) poll [DATA HERE]. Nikki Haley has entered first loser position at 14%, followed closely by Ron DeSantis at 13% and Tim Scott at 10%.
Candidate I Don’t Know (4%) is now ahead of Mike Pence, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson. While Gas Station Sushi is polling ahead of Doug Burgum, Larry Elder, Will Hurd and Francis Suarez
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At 48%, President Donald Trump is 16 points higher in the polls than he was when he won the South Carolina primary in 2016.
NATIONAL OUTLOOK – The latest Harvard Harris national poll [DATA HERE] shows Donald Trump beating Joe Biden 45% to 39%, which includes President Trump holding a massive 18-point advantage with independent voters 45% to 27%.
Meanwhile the New York Times is reporting the controversial anti-Trump attack ad portraying Ron DeSantis as the slayer of the alphabet people was actually created by the campaign, likely inspired by the direction of Ms. Christina Pushaw who has been conspicuously quiet since the rebranding huggy phase began.
[…] One recent move that drew intense blowback, including from Republicans, was the campaign’s sharing of a bizarre video on Twitter that attacked Mr. Trump as too friendly to L.G.B.T.Q. people and showed Mr. DeSantis with lasers coming out of his eyes. The video drew a range of denunciations, with some calling it homophobic and others homoerotic before it was deleted.
But it turns out to be more of a self-inflicted wound than was previously known: A DeSantis campaign aide had originally produced the video internally, passing it off to an outside supporter to post it first and making it appear as if it was generated independently, according to a person with knowledge of the incident. The DeSantis campaign declined to comment on specific questions about its spending, the candidate’s travel and the video. (link)
The DeSantis campaign has turned to the Utah Mormon community looking for financial assistance.
Politico – Top officials on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign acknowledged to donors on Sunday that they’d spent too much money and that further changes would be made as they look to recover from a disappointing start, according to three people who were present for the discussion.
Appearing before around 70 of the campaign’s top contributors at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah, DeSantis’ campaign manager Generra Peck said money had been spent on operations that had turned out to be ineffective and that the campaign would move to a leaner, “insurgent” posture going forward. Among the changes being made were to “expose” voters to DeSantis more, said Nick Iarossi, a Florida-based lobbyist and fundraiser who was at the event. (read more)
The following picture shared to social media is apropos of the Ron Desantis Utah visit in a humorous Dennis Miller style of funny:
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Is Chris Christie gas station sushi?
ew, gross…gas station sushi, I would never.. who would ever?
christies not gas station sushi…….hes more lik e one of those disposable toilet seat covers
No
Christie is one of the many dead whales that have washed up on the shores of NJ.
No, that would imply he was there to protect you.
Christy Creme!!
I actually remembered recently that Sundance had used that evocative term – a search found it was way back in January on the topic of the toxic children’s “vaccines.”
It had suddenly popped into my head when a few friends and I were signing up for a 1-song open mic at a big bluegrass festival. So we actually played under the name Gas Station Sushi.
We think it helped to damp down expectations because we got 1) a big audience laugh when the name went out, and 2) a great reception for what we played.
Sundance’s influential wit is everywhere!
Then who is Sundance calling gas station sushi…. anyone? And sorry I missed it whenever..
I love all the nicknames created on CTH.. I alway get laughs when I repeat them.
We all know Trump’s policies starting with an unleashing of fossil fuel energy will be a raging success. What I am afraid of is the republican establishment who’s donors favor Gaia and insist there is no election issues.
“Another DeSantis fundraising “host” – a title which requires major donations to the campaign – is Matt Neuman, who makes his money from real estate and solar panels, and supports climate change activism via the American Conservation Coalition.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/07/12/exc-desantis-fundraiser-is-uniparty-neo-con-who-supported-bush-ryan-rahm-emanuel/
Trump 2024.
LoL
Who’s going to be the “prick” that bursts the bubble?
How long before DeMeatball campaign claims that you can’t read too much into early polling as they bail like crazy to keep their ship afloat?
The uniparty strategy of getting PDJT on stage with a bunch of Lilliputians for a “debate” is going to fail, and I can’t stop laughing about it. I guarantee that the first question out of Dirty Baier’s mouth to PDJT would have been, “Mr. President, was the 2020 election stolen?” and the rest of the little people chime in. They don’t want to debate issues, they don’t want to talk about their positions, they just want to keep pushing that point.
Several weeks back, Ron unconvincingly claimed that the only reason he’s polling poorly is because he’s playing a long game and is not focused on trying to run the short term polls up. I doubt he believes that himself.
Seems he’s a liar too.
Pence had his shot and blew it.
“It’s not my concern….”
No. The traitor never had a shot.
Actually, I feel traitor could have had a shot before he revealed himself to be a traitor. Not that I ever liked him but, being Trump’s VP going into 2024 would have given him ‘street cred’ – for lack of a better term – that he could have used to fool gullible people into thinking that he’s America First and Trump’s natural successor. Basically, the Meatball Ron strategy
Unfortunately for him and fortunately for us, he just couldn’t help but reveal his true colors, again same as Meatball Ron
Probably the truest thing to even come out of his mouth.
His ONLY shot was to blow his foot off. He missed and removed his entire leg instead.
DeSantis campaign sees SC as a make or break state for their campaign:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna93995
“One official with Never Back Down said it is executing its long-standing plan to ramp up in later primaries while complementing the campaign’s work in early states.
“But if DeSantis doesn’t perform well in the first contests, the rest will not matter.
“If you want to beat Trump, you have to run the table in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina,” a veteran presidential campaign operative who is sympathetic to DeSantis said.”
Ha! DeStablishment can’t even find the table or the casino it lives in.
Ron seems to be one of those politicians who the more people get to know him, the less they like him.
Poor judgment, eg, rebranding, falling poll numbers, spending millions on ineffective ads and bloated staffers, degrades any messaging by DeS that he would have done things better than Trump; that he would not have been persuaded by Fauci, et al, the entire medical establishment, not to mention a rabid media.
The failing campaign was either his grand idea or he can admit that he’s been led around by the nose by Karl Rove, the Sea Island billionaires, Pushaw, and Jill. Other than a few low grade staffers, he’s fired no one. None of it inspires confidence as to what he would do if the entire deep state were against him.
Why would I trust someone who has not done anything Trumpian but says “If you hire me for my next executive position then I will do so much more, so much better than Trump ever did even though I did nothing of the sort in my current position.”???
Why would I vote for anyone other than the man who has taken all of the abuse that is meant for us for the last 8 years?
PDJT implemented MAGA, showed us how it can be effective even with the Uniparty throttling it, and (now that he knows who the RINO traitors are) how he will circumvent them.
The deep state wouldn’t be against him, they are trying to get him hired- election interference by the DOJ/FBI. They play for the same team that is funding DeSantis.
But-but-but where does “Toe Fungus” rank?
Running neck and neck with Swamp Ass, but still polling better than Chris Christie.
i don.t like his voice my headspins listening to him about florida and th3 woke
and goes the same for kennedy can you imagine 4 years of listening to these 2
I haven’t seen any DeSantas boat parade’s in Florida.
Maybe I’m not paying attention.
Very good … Or any kind of parade for that matter …
You must have blinked when you passed it.
I saw an item yesterday that TPTB are already trying to outlaw gasoline outboard motors.
They certainly don’t want any more MAGA boat parades!
“…DeSantis…. you meatball motherf***er.
You letting sushi beat you?
Motherf***ing gas station sushi???“
🤣🤣🤣
I don’t like “open ‘ primaries – I don’t see any point to them from an integrity point of view, otherwise than to cause mischief – the so called “ jungle “ primaries and , of course , the “ranked” voting scam were the natural progression it would seem …
Welcome to the UniParty.
“All your votes are belong to us.”
“All 198% of them”…Ketanji Jackson
And your children.
Lol well played Steph
Open primaries are the Republican’s version of super-delagates.
I suspect you’re right; jungle primaries are the ultimate goal.
And super-delagates are the democrat’s way of saying whether you vote or not is immaterial as we’ve already decided (purchased) the outcome without you.
i do that is how we can choose..i want trump and the kid vp viva he is smart
I Don’t see how that ( open primary ? ) gets you that particular result? – plus that ‘the kid “ will Never be on any ticket as VP candidate …
Looking at the top issues wondering when voting integrity/verification , corruption in government and weaponization of federal agencies become an issue.
Why would any pill ask about that
Poll 🙂
I absolutely love watching the campaign implosion of this lying, backstabbing establishment puppet…it is now like a trainwreck in slow-motion.
No amount of ‘re-branding’ can save what was a doomed campaign from the start, watching all of those billionaires and millionaires like Bryan ‘Max Nordau’ Griffin wasting their money on Meatball Ron is very satisfying.
MAGA
For the life of me, I cannot fathom why gas station sushi isn’t polling higher given the caliber of the field.
Nikki Haley at 14% ? Seriously??? Are there really that many knuckleheads out there? Did they mean .14% ?
Truth be told, the actual core problem with Ron’s campaign really has nothing to do with the campaign per say. They can change staff, bring in strategists, focus groups, donors, create a new plan of action and the such, but in reality it is the product they’re pushing that’s the issue. In the long run people can’t morph into something that they’re not. Basically, they are the sum total of the many parts (moral values, integrity, core beliefs, mannerisms, personality, skill sets, etc, etc.) that uniquely define them as being them when you see them hear them. Needless to say, without beating a dead horse, the more you see Ron (and likewise Casey) regardless of the manufactured venue they are placed in plus their previous actions/statements, the validity of the aforementioned rings true. Basically, Ron is a very self centered, egotistical individual that lacks the understanding, skills, mindset and leadership qualities necessary to successfully guide this country through the economic, domestic and international crisis that we currently face.
That is really well said. Succinct and accurate.
Thank you.
Jill Casey is so besotted with herself as the chief participant in his life that she cannot learn to sit quietly still while he is being interviewed. Nodding her head vigorously at every response and thereby drawing cameras away from him and toward her. HE is the cabdidate, Jill Casey… or is he?
maybe she has parkinson…lol i do not like her either they are not natural
she is his mama
Fantasies of tiaras and tea parties in the Rose Garden are fast slipping away.
It’s not the package or the marketing, the dogs don’t like the dog food
Amen! Only RDS supporters are trying new ways and pro-RDS voters are desperate for new life signs they equate with victory.
MAGA USA will not be distracted whither they go. Stay close and in the fight.
FAITH, not outward signs – deemed positive or negative are traps ensnaring those with stubborn pride and willfulness.
TRUMP-MAGA 2024!
The DeSantis campaign has turned to the Utah Mormon community looking for financial assistance.
Romney backers/PAC?
They do have hundreds of billions hoarded due to their reluctance to give to actual charity
Listening to WRKO this morning a gentleman called into the show and laid out who the real DeSuckis is, he repeated verbatim what we have learned from Sundance. He then had a segment on the real reason Kamala was in Jacksonville spewing her racist garbage, they are desperate.
They thought they had their man/child by the gonads to use and abuse, then throw away, it’s not working for them he’s a dud.
What a glorious thing sunshine and truth is.
Chris Christie is going to be Ann Coulter’s choice, yet again! Ann is getting long in the tooth, as it were. Chris Beached Whale Christie is burnt toast. But he is still bloviating whenever a camera light comes on.
Just as Democrats pushed Mace over the top, expect a similar effort by the political AME ‘church’ in SC. Only question will be the cost.
I don’t believe this poll..!!!
I mean, it’s almost pitiful at this point. Even the neocons have moved on from DeSantis.
Looking back at that ad, I was almost died 0f laughter. Who is Ron trying to pick up with an ad like that? Especially when you consider where he’s from. After California, Florida is like the 2nd gayest state in the Union. I mean, honestly?
This campaign is so confusing. He says he electable, but yet he’s doing the kind of things that would really turn off a middle of the road independent. And for all of that, he’s still struggling in New Hampshire. lol
He has saboteurs working on his campaign. They are greedy little amateurs and his greedy little ego fell for it.
I am sorry, Nicki doesn’t have 14% of anything. Lol
That picture of fox poll is hysterical.
In the general election if the Republican candidate is not 20% ahead of the democrat the democrats will steal the election.
Not voting for Vivek, not voting for Nimarata
So the DeSantis campaign officials are supposed to be cutting back on expenses and they hold their meeting at the very high-end Stein Erickson Lodge at the very high-end Deer Valley Ski Resort. Perhaps a Holiday Inn type of place might make better sense to their voter base.
Just the optics of it makes people like myself who are having to deal with runaway inflation, not want to identify with a candidate who shows little common sense when it comes to perception.
Staggering to think how much of a financial sacrifice the Trump family has made and is making for this country. They are incredible Patriots and I am so grateful for them.
Democrats still have the way better ballot counting and collection system in place which is why there wasn’t a wave in 2022. GOP is paid by big donors to lose to Dems. Those turnout operations are already being schemed. Need to have local plans in place to combat this, even in the communist run cities.
Not necessarily so. If there are no mail in ballots or early voting, the Democrats are toast. Poll only voting gives an exact count of ballots given to voters and received. Maintaining custody of those ballots eliminates the injection of any additional fraudulent ballots. In addition, restricting the constant election results to the media to timed releases starting when perhaps 25% of the count is completed will further lessen the possibility of injecting/manipulating results at the “machine level”. Finally, with respect to the delivery of ballots from the polls to a centralized counting center, have no ballots accepted after 2AM.
The thing about the Fox Business Poll categories, and the reason Our President is up by 50 points, is that every one of the top 4 issues is a populist issue and he is the only one who seems to understand that.
Just offering a thought…have heard rumors of RDS being on the spectrum…worked with sped kids for years and the Dude of the House still does…we see how autism is the go-to diagnosis and it has been for over a decade now (O/T, but it is esp for MR kids, because parents often see it as less-than rather than a different-from…)
Anyway, here’s another theory…seems more likely that he’s just a rare breed in politics: an introvert. Since we’re only a quarter of the population, and it’s an extrovert’s world, we’re often misunderstood. There’s so much more to the career than the glad-handing… he probably loves the policy-making and everything that comes with it — and giving speeches is fine; it’s just when you’re in a small group pretending to enjoy meeting new people when you really don’t that there’s a problem– not everyone’s a PDT, and a lot of us would rather express ourselves in writing, heh —
Hmmmm…anyway, that’s my theory.
Then how do you explain that this apparently misunderstood, possibly spectrum, individual ( you can’t really be serious ?) or this “rare” political introvert ( sounds more like “ can we just cut poor Ron a little slack please, people ” excuse ) ran or tried to run for 4 different offices in about 10 years – House 2012 , Rubio “empty” seat 2015/16 , Governor 2018 and now President 2022 (2021 ) — Where is he on the Ambitious Politician Spectrum ?
Haley 14%?
It looks like the numbers were massaged.
Protect President Trump and donate 15$ to Cornell West’s campaign. If he runs as a 3rd party candidate President Trump will be sure to win. They CAN NOT cheat enough. Problem solved!! If
Ha,ha,ha that’s pretty bad old rino nicki haley is ahead of desantis.
Losing to Nikki, the hometown ho…ney.
That’s got to sting.
SUNDANCE,
I received a big piece of mail, about 6″ by 12″ saying:
AMERICA IS STRUGGLING BECAUSE OF JOE BIDEN’S POLICIES.
THEN IN REALLY, REALLY BIG LETTERS IT SAYS:
BUT IF TRUMP IS THE GOP NOMINEE…..
WE COULD LOSE EVERYTHING.
It’s time to look for a NEW LEADER,
IT”S TOO IMPORTANT TO RISK IT ALL!
The return address is:
AFP
ACTION
2200 Wilson Blvd. #102-177
Arlington, VA 22201
Do you know who this is,
It says, Paid for by Americans for Prosperity Action, not authorized
by any candidate or candidate’s committee. http://www.AFPACTION.com
“A DeSantis campaign aide had originally produced the video internally[.]” Geez. DeSanctus has surrounded himself with quite a group. Trump never made “mistakes” like these. It was always someone on the outside trying to take him out (the Access Hollywood video, for example). Yet another thing Trump is better at than these career-politicians.
I Don’t Know is running one HELL of a campaign, thus far.