If Ron DeSantis is the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, a poll released Friday shows him doing better in Florida against President Joe Biden than Donald Trump would fare.
DeSantis, who is running for re-election, is a likely candidate, but he hasn’t said so thus far. Trump, the former president, has also made candidate-like moves, but hasn’t announced a candidacy.
In a hypothetical matchup, the Florida Atlantic University poll shows DeSantis leading Biden 48% to 42%, a difference of 6 percentage points.
Trump would lead Biden, 45% to 41%, a difference of 4 percentage points.
A Biden-Trump matchup is unappealing to 11% of the Florida voters surveyed. They said they’d prefer someone else. A smaller share, 5%, said they’d vote for someone else if faced with a Biden-DeSantis contest.
Undecided got 3% in the hypothetical Biden-Trump rematch and 5% in a Biden-DeSantis contest.
