Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is slowly closing in on former U.S. President Donald Trump in the polls as the Republican Party primary to lead the race for the White House approaches.
While support for DeSantis has increased by eleven points in recent months, reaching 28 percent of support among the Republican electorate; Trump sees how he maintains a reverse trend and has already dropped nine points, although he is still ahead with 46 percent.
This emerges from a new Harvard CAPS-Harris survey shared exclusively with the US news portal The Hill, which notes that the survey shows a reverse trend for both visible heads of the Republican Party just a week after Trump confirmed his aspirations for a second term in what would be his third election.
«Month after month, DeSantis has been increasing and is now significantly cutting distances to Trump,» said the co-director of the polling company, Mark Penn, who has advanced that if both Republican leaders are finally challenged in the primaries, the former president could lose.
In fact, the results of the polls show a trend that could be glimpsed at a glance with the events of recent months, especially what happened in the mid-term elections, held on November 8.
In that election, the formulas most closely aligned with Trump did not achieve the results that could have been predicted and with respect to which the former president himself anticipated that it would be a great night for the Republicans.
At the same time, perhaps without so much media repercussion compared to Trump, DeSantis managed to revalidate his leadership at the head of the state of Florida and little by little he is considered by more Republicans as a viable option to aspire to the US Presidency in 2024, although he has not yet presented his candidacy.
