Vivek Ramaswamy makes progress on closing gap with Ron DeSantis: Poll

Support for Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is growing. A national poll revealed the tech entrepreneur’s numbers are slowly mounting a challenge to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in the 2024 GOP primary race.

Ramaswamy is now polling at 10%, according to Echelon Insights, while DeSantis’s popularity decreased from 19% to 16% between May and June. The governor’s drop in support left a six-point gap between the two candidates. Before the new data, Ramaswamy was at eight percent.

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Former President Donald Trump steadily maintains the lead at 49%, according to the results. The six other notable GOP candidates, besides DeSantis and Ramaswamy, are polling in the single digits.

Though he has a ways to go before beating DeSantis, Ramaswamy gained a considerable amount of popularity among Republican voters after he was the only presidential candidate to come out in support of Trump after the latter’s federal indictment last month.

The data come from a question asking 413 Republican/Republican-leaning voters about who they’d support in the next presidential election if the GOP primary was held today.

The poll found Ramaswamy had 40% support among those voters if he were to be chosen for the Republican nomination in 2024. Trump and DeSantis were in the lead with 66% and 52% respectively. The respondents could choose as many candidates as they liked for the question.

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The Echelon Insights poll surveyed a total of 1,020 respondents from June 26-29 and had a margin of error of plus or minus nearly four percent.

Ramaswamy launched his presidential campaign in February on an “anti-woke” platform, saying he wants to save America from its “national identity crisis.”