Where DeSantis Holds the Edge over Trump

An analysis of sentiments on social media suggests the former president is slipping among key voters.

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Then-president Donald Trump walks with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at Orlando Sanford International Airport in Sanford, Fla., March 9, 2020.

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Ron DeSantis maintains a big lead over Donald Trump among swing voters — at least on social media, according to one firm that monitors a core “focus group” of 40,000 political posters.

The findings come from an outfit called Impact Social, a firm hired by a pro-DeSantis group to crunch social-media data. The analysis doesn’t sugarcoat the results for the group that hired it; both DeSantis and Trump have net negative scores. But DeSantis, at -4, is doing way better among swing voters than Trump, with a -41 score, though this was measured before the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, an unprecedented event whose impact on perceptions of the former president has yet to be seen.

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Fred Lucas

Fred Lucas is the manager of investigative projects at the Daily Signal and the author of The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections.

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