Former President Donald Trump’s “War Room” team blasted Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for his polling numbers, after the Florida governor admitted that his strong post-midterm results were a “sugar-high.”
“I had gotten a lot of coverage in the aftermath of the midterm election; we always knew with these national polls that that was a sugar-high,” DeSantis said Sunday to Howard Kurtz on Fox News Channel’s Mediabuzz.
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Trump’s team blasted the Florida governor’s comments on Twitter Sunday afternoon.
“Ron DeSanctimonious admits his post-midterm polling was only a ‘sugar high,’” the team tweeted. “Welcome back to reality!”
DeSantis said during his interview that the national polls weren’t “anything we were too concerned about either way.”
The Florida governor was speaking to Trump’s significant lead in the polls compared to other GOP presidential candidates. A RealClearPolitics analysis of recent polls shows Trump leading in all of them, with an RCP average of 53%. He holds a 32.4% lead against DeSantis, who polls at 20.6%.
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All other GOP candidates — such as former Vice President Mike Pence, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy — poll at single digits in most polls and have yet to break into double digits.
The Florida governor has previously acknowledged that the 2024 election would be an uphill battle but that he was not expecting results right off the bat, saying, “You’ve got to earn it.”
