In those polls, DeSantis’ average level of support nearly doubled, from 16.3 to 30.7 percent. Three pollsters - POLITICO/Morning Consult, Harvard-Harris and YouGov - sampled Republican primary voters both at the beginning of the year and after the midterms. A December Wall Street Journal poll pegged DeSantis’ name ID at 82 percent, just two points less than former Vice President Mike Pence. That’s the widest margin for a Florida gubernatorial victory in 40 years, just four years after DeSantis survived a nail-biter.Īlong the way, his national profile has continued to grow. Ron DeSantis (whom Trump endorsed in the 2018 gubernatorial primary, as he will surely remind us all repeatedly over the next several months) won his re-election by a ludicrous 19 points.
While many Trump-backed Republican candidates faltered in the midterms, Florida Gov.
