Ramaswamy closes in on DeSantis as Trump dominates in GOP poll | The Hill
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Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is narrowing in on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the GOP presidential primary as former President Trump leads the field, according to a new poll.
A poll released by Echelon Insights this week found Trump as the frontrunner at 49 percent while DeSantis notched 16 percent in second place and Ramaswamy 10 percent in third.
The poll showed Ramaswamy gaining 2 percentage points since a similar poll was conducted in May, when the biotech entrepreneur had 8 percent support. Meanwhile, DeSantis dropped 3 percentage points since the May poll, when he was at 19 percent.
The development comes as some Republicans have expressed concerns about DeSantis's viability as a candidate since his campaign rollout over a glitchy Twitter Spaces event in May.
The Florida governor recently drew the ire of the GOP LGBT group Log Cabin Republicans and other members of the party after his campaign released a video last week criticizing Trump's past support for the LGBTQ community.
The Echelon Insights poll surveyed 1,020 voters in the likely electorate between June 26 and June 29. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
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Another poll, Kaplan Strategies shows DeSantis and Ramaswamy tied and another poll shows Tim Scott in double figures (10%) to DeSantis 16%.
Seems that DeSantis is losing ground with both donors and supporters. He keeps sticking to his ''culture war'' BS and doubled down on it again today with threats to sue Anheuser Bush over their support of transgender influencers.
For such a well educated, experienced individual, DeSantis has adopted a bizarre campaign strategy.
It's difficult to understand what in the world he thinks that he is accomplishing with the culture war campaign. It worked in Florida in 2020 when he ran for governor but now there are cracks in his support in Florida over the nonsense he keeps pushing.
Ramaswamy, the guy who wants to raise the voting age to 25, is gaining in the Republican polls. For Republicans, voting is "woke".
LOL, sad isn't it? I believe that he also said he wants to get rid of birthright citizenship.
Don't they all want to get rid of birthright citizenship? It's part of the new Republican orthodoxy. Birthright citizenship is so woke. Why should you get to be a citizen just because you're born here? That's a liberal thing. Something college professors support.
Yeah, it's the mantra for the righties to get rid of birthright citizenship.
The right wing extremists who hate America, the Putinites and the ones of that ilk, should lose their citizenship.