Speculation about a possible Trump-DeSantis contest has been building for months.
Two years out from the next presidential election, the leading contenders on the Republican side are already clear.
There is one obvious difference between the two. DeSantis has not yet said he will seek the presidency.How do Trump and DeSantis match up in key areas?Polls before the midterms almost always showed the former president leading — often by a wide margin — among Republican voters.in a poll of likely New Hampshire Republican primary voters back in June.DeSantis has been catapulted past Trump in several polls after Trump suffered a poor outcome in the midterms.
The same pattern held among Republican and conservative voters. Among self-identified conservatives, Trump’s unfavorable number was almost twice as high as DeSantis’s — 25 percent to 14 percent. OpenSecrets, a website that tracks money in politics, noted in mid-September that DeSantis had by then raised $31.4 million directly through his campaign but an additional $146 million in his state-level PAC, Friends of Ron DeSantis.Trump, having declared his candidacy, is now subject to somewhat tighter limits, including a contribution cap for donors giving directly to his campaign.
As a practical matter, though, Trump’s massive popularity with his base likely means he can be assured of a continuing gush of small-dollar donations, reducing any dependence upon mega-donors.Virtually no one expects a Trump-DeSantis primary, if it happens, to be contested on the finer points of policy.
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