To win in 2024, you need to win the battleground states. DeSantis leads Biden in these swing states, while Trump lags behind.

https://discoursemagazine.com/politics/the-gop-must-get-in-the-s…

The battleground states reject Trump, but the results look much different for a governor who won reelection by nearly 20% in 2022. The new Florida Man defeats Biden in all these states.

In Arizona, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis leads Biden, 46% to 40%, in Public Opinion Strategies’ poll—a nine-point swing from the Trump match-up. In Georgia, it’s DeSantis at 48% to Biden at 45%, a six-point improvement. Pennsylvania also adds six points to the Republican column, with DeSantis at 47% and Biden at 45%. North Carolina follows suit with a two-point improvement for DeSantis over Trump. An NBC News swing-state poll taken a week later agrees, showing DeSantis defeating Biden by 6%, and Trump losing to Biden by 2%.

The former president may currently lead national primary polls, but an untold number of Republicans still on the Trump Train are checking the exits. A recent Associated Press poll found that 38% of Republicans have an unfavorable view of Trump, an uptick from 30% in April.

“You have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing — Biden, Trump and me,” DeSantis told donors, according to The New York Times. “And I think of those three, two have a chance to get elected president—Biden and me—based on all the data in the swing states, which is not great for the former president and probably insurmountable because people aren’t going to change their view of him.”