Vivek passes DeSanctimonious in Ohio poll -
A new poll coming out of Ohio shows continued bad news for Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
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A new poll in Ohio shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in third place in the crucial Republican state.
The poll by
Ohio Northern University showed former President
Donald Trump on top at 64.1 percent support.
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy was second at 11.8 percent followed by DeSantis at 8.7 percent.
Former Vice President Mike Pence received 6.4 percent support, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley was at 2.7 percent, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was at 1.8 percent support while former Arkansas Gov Asa Hutchinson was at 0.8 support.
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The survey of 675 Ohio residents, had a margin of error of 3.7 percent. Participants self-identified if they planned to vote in the GOP primary with 44 percent saying they planned to do so.
Since 2000, Republican presidential primaries have usually been won by the candidate who goes on to become the party’s nominee. The one outlier comes from
2016, when former Ohio Gov. John Kasich was running for president and won his home state primary.
In
2000, former President George W. Bush won the
Ohio GOP primary, taking it again in 2004 as an unopposed incumbent. The late Sen. John McCain of Arizona won the
2008 Ohio contest, while current Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah won the contest in
2012. Trump, as an incumbent, won in 2020.
Writing in
The Washington Post, Philip Bump said the collective damage of third-place polling finishes has been that “DeSantis is just another candidate.”
“This isn’t just bad for DeSantis in that he hasn’t overtaken Trump. It’s bad for him in that this suggests a downward path: from clear second-place candidate to member of the second tier. And for the candidate long pitched as the viable non-Trump candidate, being less viable is a big problem,” he wrote.
A
Politico analysis by Rich Lowry, the editor in chief at National Review, touched on difficulties
DeSantis had moving from a highly effective and politically popular governor to a presidential candidate trying to swim upstream.