DeSantis Camp Faces Another PR Disaster With Iowa Poll s Release – The Messenger

When Donald Trump s super PAC began a new $1 million ad campaign attacking Ron DeSantis in Iowa, the Florida governor s presidential campaign was quick to declare it good news.

Team Trump is now being forced to publicly admit that Ron DeSantis is climbing in Iowa, the campaign told The New York Times late Friday.

On Monday, that talking point took a major hit with the release of the widely respected Iowa Poll, which showed DeSantis losing 3 percentage points in two months.

That put DeSantis at an anemic 16%, tied with Nikki Haley, who jumped 10 points. Trump, meanwhile, gained a marginal 1 point and has 43% support overall, little threatened by either.

Beyond undercutting the DeSantis narrative that he s climbing or that the primary is a two-man race, the poll also highlights the alternate universe constructed by a chronically underperforming candidate starting with his glitch-filled launch on Twitter, which his campaign claimed was a positive sign he broke the Internet. By that point, DeSantis was already falling in polls.

via themessenger.com

This is bad news, if true.