Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been slipping in the polls for months… but he just hit a new low.
On Sunday, The Horn News reported on a Co-Efficient/NH Journal poll showing DeSantis tied with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the bottom tier of candidates.
Now, a poll released Tuesday has found DeSantis sinking even further.
DeSantis has officially fallen behind Chris Christie in New Hampshire, the site of a critical early primary.
Between Aug. 9 and 11, pollsters at Emerson College talked to 837 registered voters, including 498 Republican primary voters. To maintain the exact wording, the pollsters used “landlines, an online panel of voters, and cellphones via SMS-to-web, and a consumer list of emails.”
DeSantis commanded only 8 percent of primary voters in the early-voting state.
Meanwhile, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was polling at 9 percent.
Christie finished ahead of DeSantis even after going more than five years without holding an elected office.
Former President Donald Trump finished first, with 49 percent. A whopping 13 percent remained undecided.
The poll found a large percentage of primary voters remaining undecided (13 percent), and it accounted for a very large margin of error (4.9 percent).
Plus, DeSantis has spent more time in Iowa than in New Hampshire, and he’s consistently polled ahead of Christie there.
Still, even with the margin of error and the undecided voters, the poll still spells bad news for DeSantis.
“This is the first time we have seen DeSantis drop out of second place in our polling, and fall back into the pack of candidates,” Spencer Kimball, the executive director of Emerson College Polling, said in a press release.
The GOP will hold its first primary debate on Aug. 23, only eight days from Tuesday.
Compared to DeSantis, Christie looks less likely to participate. The New Jersey Republican has promised never to vote for Trump again, and all debate contestants must pledge to support any Republican nominee for president next year.
“When you have the Jan. 6 choir at a rally and you show video of it — I just don’t think that person is appropriate for the presidency,” Christie told Axios in March. “I can’t help him. No way.”
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