You know what's interesting about presidential races? Anytime a new candidate enters a race,
they get a bit of a bump. We saw it on the Democratic side with both Maryanne Williamson
and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As soon as they announced they got a little bump in the polls.
We've seen it on the Republican side. A Nikki Haley, as soon as she announced she was running,
she jumped into double digit support. But the thing is, and you can look at the polls
and verify this about all these folks, that bump never lasts. Eventually the bump goes
away. Sometimes it only takes two or three weeks for that announcement bump to go back
to what it was prior. And every now and then, you know, you get the weird outlier. The person
who is apparently just so hated that they don't get a bump in the poll at all.
That's rare. But I'll tell you what's even rarer than that is the person who not only
doesn't get a bump, but announces their presidential race and then actually loses support immediately.
I've never seen that until now because that is exactly what happened with Florida Governor
Ron DeSantis when DeSantis made his botched presidential announcement on Twitter and it
was expected that he was gonna get a bump in the polls right at the worst, his support
level would've remained the same, right? No, not for DeSantis, not for how disgusting this
little character is because according to the polling data, after DeSantis announced he
was running for president, he actually lost support from the public. Like more people
disliked him once he said he was running for president. I've never seen that. Like I have
not seen that at, at least that I remember in my years of cov covering electoral politics
here in the United States.
That has to be one of the worst omens for a candidate that I have ever seen. In fact,
we are six months into this year now we're into the sixth month. And in the last six
months, Ron DeSantis approval rating has fallen by 19 points. He's now at a net negative 19%
underwater in his approval rating, because his approval rating flipped . It went
from approval in the fifties to disapproval in the thirties, to approval in the thirties,
to disapproval in the fifties, in six months. And when he announced that he was running
for president, it got worse. But don't worry, you say right, DeSantis is still hauling in
tons of money. Well, that's true, that's true. But, uh, there's another poll from C N B C
this week that tells us that, uh oh, Ron DeSantis is losing the support of the donor class that
is defecting from him back to Donald Trump. Now, earlier this year, a lot of the millionaire
Republican donor class had defected from Trump to DeSantis,
And then everybody got to know who DeSantis is. So a lot of these millionaires have now
said, oh, screw this guy. I'm going back to the crazy man, the corrupt guy, cuz this guy
is just worse. Here's what happened. Only 32% of millionaire Republicans now support
DeSantis as the G O P nominee, which pulls individuals with 1 million or more in investible
assets. According to the survey that marks a large drop from the 54% who backed to satis
at the end of 2022, more respondents are getting behind former President Donald Trump. He is
the support of 28% of Republican millionaires narrowly trailing DeSantis. The share of Republican
millionaires backing Trump jumped from 17% at the end of 2022. So DeSantis lost 20%.
Donald Trump gained, uh, what is it? Uh, uh, uh, 11%. So we're already starting to see
those shifts. These Republican millionaires who wanted nothing to do with Trump, he was
not as good for them as they wanted.
They thought DeSantis could do it. And they've watched all year long as his approval rating
drops, as his standing in the Republican polls drops and they're like, nah, I'm not gonna
do it. Now, he still has a majority of 'em, don't get me wrong. I understand numbers.
He's got a majority of them, but he's still losing support. And once he loses those millionaires,
DeSantis is screwed because DeSantis campaign relies on the big money Republican donors.
Donald Trump does not. Donald Trump is getting his money from the small individual donors
out there in America. So if DeSantis keeps losing the big money people, not only is his
support gonna continue to drop, but he's gonna run outta campaign cash pretty dang quick.