“Gov. Hurricane” +11 Over Charlie Crist In New Poll

October 5, 2022 Politics, Republicans

Ahead in fundraising and advertising, Florida Gov Ron DeSantis has a large 11-percentage-point lead over Democratic challenger Charlie Crist, according to a new poll of likely voters.

DeSantis’s 52% to 41% advantage in the Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy survey comes as Floridians began receiving vote-by-mail ballots across the state as it recovers from the ravages of Hurricane Ian, which made landfall in the southwest of the peninsula and exited its northeast quadrant last week.

The poll was completed Sept. 28, just as the storm struck and after DeSantis received wall-to-wall media coverage ahead of the hurricane’s landfall.

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1/x DeSantis leads Crist by 11 percentage points in Mason-Dixon’s new FL poll

And there’s more:

✅DeSantis has $106 million banked — 27 times more than Crist’s $3.9m

✅DeSantis is outspending Crist on TV by a factor of more than 10 — $16m to about $1.6mhttps://t.co/Trte3weLJx

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) October 5, 2022

2. Remember the negative commentary after DeSantis flew migrants from TX to MA? It doesn’t appear to have hurt his approval ratings, which stand at 55-42%

“I don’t think it was a problem &, if it was, the hurricane just wiped it out” —pollster Brad Cokerhttps://t.co/Trte3weLJx

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) October 5, 2022

3.
“DeSantis is going to be Gov. Hurricane for the next couple weeks. The disadvantage Crist has is 2-fold: he’s completely out of the news & he never managed a hurricane so he can’t stand up & point to what he did. So Crist is totally, totally defanged”https://t.co/Trte3weLJx

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) October 5, 2022