Eighty-six percent of likely GOP primary voters said they held a favorable view of DeSantis, who last month overwhelmingly won re-election to a second term steering the nation’s third most populated state, compared to 74% who viewed Trump favorably.
In a hypothetical DeSantis-Trump face-off for the nomination, the poll suggests the Florida governor ahead of the former president 52%-38%, more than 13 months ahead of the first contests in the 2024 Republican presidential primary and caucus calendar.