DeSantis leads Trump by 5 points in 2024 GOP primary poll

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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has a clear lead over former President Donald Trump in the event of a two-man race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, according to a new survey.

A Yahoo News/YouGov poll released Thursday found that 47% of registered Republican or Republican-leaning independent voters say they would vote for DeSantis, 44, if their state primary or caucus were held today. Only 42% of the same cohort said they would support the 76-year-old Trump.

The poll shows a 14-percentage point swing toward DeSantis since mid-October, when 45% of registered Republicans or GOP-leaning independents supported Trump, while 36% said they would support DeSantis.

Florida’s governor, who was re-elected in a landslide on Nov. 8, also leads Trump by 11 percentage points (51% to 40%) among Americans who voted in a 2016 GOP primary or caucus in their state.

Donald Trump is five points behind Ron DeSantis in the latest GOP 2024 primary poll. The Washington Post via Getty Images DeSantis cruised to an easy victory in his re-election campaign. AFP via Getty Images

In a head-to-head matchup against President Biden, the poll also found DeSantis to be a more formidable opponent for the 80-year-old commander in chief.

Registered voters were split 44% each when asked who they would back in a hypothetical 2024 contest between Biden and DeSantis. However, in a Trump-Biden rematch of the 2020 election, 45% of registered voters chose Biden while 42% supported Trump.

No other potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate came close in the poll to DeSantis or Trump in terms of support. Former Vice President Mike Pence and former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley are each favored by 5% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents.

That pair was followed by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and outgoing Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney — all with 2% support,

Maryland Gov. announced. Larry Hogan is at the back of the potential GOP field with 1% support, while 12% said they were unsure of their choice and another 4% said they would consider voting.

In that splintered field, Trump has 35% support and DeSantis has 30%.

The poll was conducted between Dec. 1-5, after several Trump-backed candidates failed to secure the expected win in the midterm elections and after the former commander-in-chief’s Nov. 22 Mar-a-Lago with anti-semitic rapper Kanye West and white supremacist Nicholas Fuentes.

Many GOPers blamed Trump for the party’s failures in the midterm elections. Getty Images

The dinner took place a week after Trump announced his third consecutive presidential run, making him the only Republican so far to throw his hat in the ring for 2024.

While the poll was in the field, several high-profile Republicans ripped Trump for a post on social media in which he claimed the supposed election fraud from 2020 would allow for the end of all rules, regulations , and articles, even those found in the Constitution.

The former president was also blamed by many in the party for Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walkers on Dec.

Meanwhile, DeSantis was named a finalist for Time magazine’s Person of the Year this week, losing to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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