A monthly survey shows little movement.
Polls continue to show Florida’s most prominent Republicans have ground to make up if they want the party’s presidential nomination in three years.
The Echelon Insights[1] September “verified voter omnibus” finds Secretary of State Marco Rubio[2] with 5% support in a hypothetical 2028 Republican Primary.
That puts him in fourth place, behind Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.[3] Kennedy has 6% support.
Gov. Ron DeSantis[4] is marginally ahead of Rubio and Kennedy with 8% support.
But all of them are far behind Vice President JD Vance[5], who has 43% in the poll conducted between Sept. 18 and Sept. 22.
These numbers more or less hold steady from August’s Echelon Insights[6] poll. That one also found Vance with 43% support, DeSantis and Kennedy at 9%, and Rubio at 6%.
DeSantis said last year that he would have been well-positioned in 2024 if voters hadn’t preferred President Donald Trump[7]. And he suggested his backing would be there were he to run in 2028.
“When I was in Iowa, a lot of these folks that stuck with the President were very supportive of what I’ve done in Florida. They thought I was a good candidate,” DeSantis said. “I even had people say they think that I would even do better as President, but they felt that they owed Trump another shot. And so I think we really made a strong impression.”
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References
- ^ Echelon Insights (echeloninsights.com)
- ^ Marco Rubio (floridapolitics.com)
- ^ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (floridapolitics.com)
- ^ Ron DeSantis (flgov.com)
- ^ JD Vance (floridapolitics.com)
- ^ Echelon Insights (floridapolitics.com)
- ^ Donald Trump (floridapolitics.com)