Allies of the Florida governor would really like people to throw their good money after bad.
In fact, FiveThirtyEight’s polling reflects that. Relative to the day of the debate, Aug. 23, Haley is up 2 points in national polling, while Trump is down about 2 points. Ramaswamy had been gaining, but that stopped. DeSantis stayed flat — as the Trump poll also indicates.
On other metrics, DeSantis was similarly unable to move the needle. He’s gotten a few more mentions on Fox News than Haley or Ramaswamy, but not many. He got a third more mentions in the week after the debate than the week prior; Haley got three times the number. And she wasn’t benefiting from being in the news for her handling of a mass shooting or a hurricane in her state.
There’s a similar pattern for Google searches: Trump dominates, DeSantis is where he was while a competitor surpasses him.The people to whom Roe was making his appeal in that room before the debate couldn’t have known that the governor would see no new traction, of course. But they could have guessed it. For eight months, DeSantis and his allies have been trying to position him to surpass Trump and, for eight months, he’s gone the other direction.
And it’s an even harder argument to counteract when you remind people how you already lost to Trump once before.
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