FL - St. Pete Polls: DeSantis and Fried tied at 45%

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

JUNK IT!!!

You junk a poll you don't like

[Suburbia]

Lean R

DeSantis and Rubio are favored to win reelection, but Lean R for now....

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

I don't understand anyone who would want DeSantis to win, he is a younger version of Trump, Rubio may win, but DeSantis is gonna lose 15 percent right off the bat, he has no connection to AA which is 15 percent

That's why it's a tossup, that's why he only beat an AA socialist by .5

Some AA men will vote for Rubio, but 0 will vote for DeSantis

[Roronoa D. Law]

Safe R, you Democrats need to stop running to a phone to answer a poll.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Safe R, you Democrats need to stop running to a phone to answer a poll.

DeSantis is weak, beating Gillum isn't great, he will have a real opponent in 2022

[UWS]

That poll means nothing. Fried will be under fire for her heavy baggage, notably her move to appoint two lobbyists for the FL SugarCane League, her use of taxpayer funds to increase her political exposure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Fried#Controversies

In addition, she opposed the USMCA along with socialists like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Occasio-Cortez who voted against it even though trade with Canada and Mexico supports 750,400 jobs in Florida.

https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/trade-canada-and-mexico-supports-750400-jobs-florida

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

That poll means nothing. Fried will be under fire for her heavy baggage, notably her move to appoint two lobbyists for the FL SugarCane League, her use of taxpayer funds to increase her political exposure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Fried#Controversies

In addition, she opposed the USMCA along with socialists like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Occasio-Cortez who voted against it even though trade with Canada and Mexico supports 750,400 jobs in Florida.

https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/trade-canada-and-mexico-supports-750400-jobs-florida

We will win, you will see, Fried isn't running Crist is, but this poll is good news, it's gonna be competetive, and the MXDX poll showed a double digits lead and some don't want Crist to run, he will lose anyways

[wbrocks67]

It would certainly be very Florida of Fried to end up somehow winning in a Biden midterm.

[ajc0918]

Of course both candidates will get 45% in Florida. Florida elections will continue to be close with GOP being a favorite to win based on superior infrastructure.

[Dereich]

Any candidate on either side in Florida who does not eat babies or is not Katherine Harris is getting a minimum of 44/45% barring a huge national landslide. When the candidates are polling below that its flat out from lack of name recognition, not by any deficiency by the candidate. Because of institutional strength, in a Florida race you always have to start from the assumption that the Republican will be ahead unless the Republican is toxic to some part of their coalition or the Democrat can appeal better than average to some key GOP demographic.

[RRusso1982]

Safe R, nothing to see here.

Nope Gov Crist

Just like Charlie Crist won in 2014 against an unpopular incumbent.

[AncestralDemocrat.]

Every undecided proceeds to lean republican.. lol

[AncestralDemocrat.]

Lean R

DeSantis and Rubio are favored to win reelection, but Lean R for now....

The Senate race is bordering on Safe R.. Rubio will outrun DeSantis by 3-4 points.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Safe R, nothing to see here.

Nope Gov Crist

Just like Charlie Crist won in 2014 against an unpopular incumbent.

Yeah just like DeSantis beat a Socialisic D in Andrew Gillium nothing impressive about that either, this is wave insurence anyways, but this race will be competetive it's not Safe R

[SnowLabrador]

Of course both candidates will get 45% in Florida. Florida elections will continue to be close with GOP being a favorite to win based on superior infrastructure.

I could see DeSantis winning by 10 points.

[UWS]

Safe R, nothing to see here.

Nope Gov Crist

Just like Charlie Crist won in 2014 against an unpopular incumbent.

If Crist couldn’t have Scott, how can we expect him to beat DeSantis?

[Sir Mohamed]

Not falling for it. Likely R.

[RRusso1982]

And Florida has likely trended even more Republican since 2014 when Crist was unable to beat an unpopular incumbent.

[MT Treasurer]

In a universe in which Biden's national approval stands at +17-20 (which several polls seem to suggest), this makes perfect sense. Without Trump on the ballot, we have no reason not to trust these polls, of course.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

And Florida has likely trended even more Republican since 2014 when Crist was unable to beat an unpopular incumbent.

Trump only won by 300 K votes that's not a landslide, 51/48, that's within margin of error

It's wave insurence but some are trying to get Crist not to run, he will lose anyways, this poll contradicts a blowout by DeSantis

Also, Rubio can lose, he is blocking and Filibustering everything, Go Stephanie Murphy

[Donerail]

That poll means nothing. Fried will be under fire for her heavy baggage, notably her move to appoint two lobbyists for the FL SugarCane League, her use of taxpayer funds to increase her political exposure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Fried#Controversies

In addition, she opposed the USMCA along with socialists like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Occasio-Cortez who voted against it even though trade with Canada and Mexico supports 750,400 jobs in Florida.

https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/trade-canada-and-mexico-supports-750400-jobs-florida

Devastating opposition research. I hope the Republicans don't figure out how to use Wikipedia.

Nope, safe R

Good to know you people are going to be more annoying about this than you were about KY-Gov in 2019.

[pbrower2a]

It was only a matter of time before COVID-19 before Republican governors who trivialized the danger of mass death from the Plague of Donald Trump shreds their credibility. If Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) can be in political peril from impeachment largely by fellow Democrats for an early cover-up, then what happens to Republicans in legitimate swing states when mass death has resulted from blatant incompetence and inattention?

[Farmlands]

At this point, I'm just discounting all polls of any "swing state" and going only with my head, and it's telling me DeSantis is going to win the race by 4-5 points. Pbrower, seniors didn't really care about Covid in 2020, and they still don't now.

[Chips]

While I agree with the consensus that DeSantis should be favored, A lot of people forget that not only did DeSantis have low approvals throughout much of last year, Fried has proven herself capable to FL voters. (Despite winning her race by just 0.08%) This could prove to be a closer race than many think.

[brucejoel99]

While I agree with the consensus that DeSantis should be favored, A lot of people forget that not only did DeSantis have low approvals throughout much of last year, Fried has proven herself capable to FL voters. (Despite winning her race by just 0.08%) This could prove to be a closer race than many think.

Scott had low approvals throughout much of his term & Bill Nelson had previously proven himself capable to FL voters, but look at how that turned out for the latter in a literal blue-wave year. I don't doubt that there will be a pervasive horse-race narrative forced upon this race, but I have no faith whatsoever in the final result - a DeSantis win - being relatively close.