Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to say he may run for President again, but people who say they’re voting in the New Hampshire Primary don’t seem that excited.
That’s the ineluctable takeaway from a poll from St. Anselm College, which shows DeSantis with just 5% support.
That is down two points from the same poll in October and it ties him with another 2024 also-ran, Nikki Haley.
Another Florida man, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is doing much better. His 27% support is good for second place, though far behind Vice President JD Vance’s 46%.
New Hampshire’s Primary allows for same-day registration, which is a slight drag on DeSantis, who is at 5% with GOP respondents, but 4% with those who are undeclared.
Rubio is at 26% with Republican registrants, and 27% with undeclared voters.
DeSantis isn’t ruling out running, as he told Sean Hannity in a podcast interview being released Tuesday.
“We’ll see. I mean, I think that in ’24, like in Iowa, the people that voted for Trump — if he wasn’t running, I would have gotten like 90% of those people. They were conservative voters, right? They didn’t want the non-conservative. They wanted me. But the timing didn’t work out, obviously, for that. So, you just got to see what happens.”
But there reportedly is a movement to draft Rubio to run among donors not thrilled with Vance, suggesting that the Trump administration may have to deal with political ambitions emerging soon after the midterm elections.
