DeSantis aides to donors: Trump’s current lead is a polling sugar high

MIAMI — Ron DeSantis’ high political advisers on Thursday detailed the trail ahead for the Florida governor within the Republican presidential major — and brushed apart unhealthy headlines surrounding his rocky marketing campaign launch the night time earlier than.

Showing earlier than a personal gathering of donors on the 4 Seasons Resort, three high DeSantis lieutenants — Ryan Tyson, Sam Cooper and Jason Johnson — argued that the governor remained poised all through a malfunction-plagued look on Twitter Areas, the place he unveiled his candidacy in a dialog with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. They stated DeSantis had a transparent path to defeat former President Donald Trump, and added their perception that Florida would emerge as a key state that might assist to find out the result of the nomination contest, based on two individuals current for the presentation.

The group of DeSantis advisers additionally walked by way of polling in 4 early major states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada — and made the case that the governor was considered extra favorably than Trump in every. They made the case that Trump’s present polling lead was being inflated by sympathy from Republican voters over his indictment in New York over a case involving hush cash funds to a porn star and would diminish over time. They conceded that the previous president would possible not go under roughly 35 p.c assist in a major however that such a flooring allowed for DeSantis, his strongest rival, to take a bigger share of the remaining 65 p.c of the vote.