To put it mildly, the final weeks of 2022 have not gone swimmingly for Donald Trump. In early November, a large number of candidates he backed for office lost their election bids, leading Republicans to blame him for their poor showing in the midterms. Shortly thereafter, Rupert Murdoch’s conservative media empire declared him a has-been. Few people rushed to endorse him following the announcement he’ll be running for president again. His favorite child made it clear she wants nothing to do with his political aspirations. His family business was found guilty of a whopping 17 different crimes. Multiple news outlets reported that more classified documents were found in one of his storage facilities. Congressional Democrats finally got their hands on his tax returns. People on the inside have said they believe the special counsel appointed by the attorney general to oversee a pair of criminal investigations into Trump’s conduct was brought in as a “hit man” and is likely to indict him.
Yes, it’s been a pretty, pretty, pretty rough time for the ex-president of the United States, and the hits continued to come this week when a pair of new polls showed Ron DeSantis, his theoretical rival for the 2024 nomination, thrashing him at the ballot box.
One of those polls, conducted by USA Today and Suffolk University and released on Tuesday, put the Florida governor ahead of the former president by a massive 23 points. The other, released by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, gave DeSantis a slightly smaller but still quite large 14-point lead over Trump. While Trump does not appear to have commented on the results, one can assume they’ve gone over about as well as the time Donald Trump Jr. allegedly tried to wear a Yankees jersey to a Yankees game. Last month, Trump the Elder basically shat a brick over DeSantis’s ascendancy within the Republican Party, (and in doing so implied he committed a major crime). As one Trump insider put it in a message viewed by The Guardian, the ex-POTUS is “in trouble.”
Of course, DeSantis has not yet actually announced a presidential run in 2024, and while many signs indicate he will, the polls aren’t all in his favor. In a survey conducted by Morning Consult between December 9 and 11, Trump was ahead by 18 points. But that’s probably of little comfort to the guy who clearly knows, on some level, that the GOP wants to trade him in for a younger model.
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