5/17/23: DeSantis collapse continues as Musk, Palin, Trump lose their minds
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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ποΈ 17 May 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Florida governor Ron DeSantis still has not even announced that he is joining the Republican |
| 0:21.6 | presidential primary and his candidacy continues to collapse. |
| 0:26.3 | Well, hold on. |
| 0:27.3 | If it hasn't started, how is it collapsing? |
| 0:30.8 | The answer is recent polling. |
| 0:33.3 | You have to see this. |
| 0:35.0 | It's actually, I don't know that we've ever seen anything like this. |
| 0:39.1 | The green line on your screen pointing down is Ron DeSantis's polling. |
| 0:45.2 | And I'll give you the numbers if you're just listening today. |
| 0:48.0 | The purple line near the top is Donald Trump's, which continues to climb. |
| 0:55.0 | Everything happened right around March 28, 29, 30th that has sent Donald Trump's Republican |
| 1:02.8 | polling up and Ron DeSantis's Republican polling down. |
| 1:07.4 | And this just so happens to have been the moment where we learned Donald Trump would be |
| 1:12.1 | indicted and arrested. |
| 1:13.8 | Yes, I continue to believe that the arrest and indictment of Trump does nothing for him |
| 1:20.9 | if he makes it to the general election in November of 2024. |
| 1:25.5 | But it is undeniably clear that it is doing something for him in the Republican primary. |
| 1:31.9 | Ron DeSantis now down barely to 20% on average in recent polling. |
| 1:37.6 | He had reached as high as 32, 33. |
| 1:40.8 | And Donald Trump continues to climb now holding 55% of the Republican primary ballot. |
| 1:48.1 | Understanding also that a bunch of the support is among people who aren't even running at this |
| 1:54.5 | point in time. |
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