By Ben Whedon
Tech mogul Vivek Ramaswamy is closing in on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the Republican primary, placing just 6 points behind him in a recent poll.
Ramaswamy claimed the support of 10% of likely voters in an Echelon Insights poll conducted June 26-29. DeSantis, meanwhile, claimed 16% support to former President Donald Trump’s 49%.
The figures marked a 2% surge for Ramaswamy and a 3% drop for DeSantis since May.
No other candidate earned double digit support. Notably, Ramaswamy still appears to have room to grow as 38% of poll respondents indicated they never heard of him. Only 1% said so for Trump compared to 7% for DeSantis. The survey has a +/- 3.9% margin of error.
The Florida governor saw his political star, and presidential prospects, rise after cruising to a landslide 2022 reelection in the formerly battleground state. His campaign, however, has struggled to gain significant ground from Trump, even as his chief rival faces multiple indictments.
While the formerly amicable Trump-DeSantis relationship has turned decidedly sour amid the governor’s challenge to Trump, the former president has generally offered supportive messages to Ramaswamy, who has generally expressed a favorable assessment of Trump’s official tenure, but highlighted the need for fresh leadership for the country.
Republicans: so many choices.
Democrats: settle for idiot Biden.
Viveck must scare Dems because their liberal media toadies are dragging out the “he’s with Soros,” meme.
In his youth, Viveck was OFFERED a place in George Soros’ “Young Leaders of Tommorow” training program.
He turned it down.
Trudeau, Macron, and many of the leftist globalists all went thru that Soros’ program.
So, now, even Dems recognize George Soros as a Leftist puppet master.
Instead of turning against their own Soros puppets, they attack Republicans for even having correspondence with his Org decades ago.
PS, George’s puppet gov’t in Netherlands just fell.
All his cabinet and PM have resigned and the farmers will NOT have to leave their land so migrants can be housed on farmlands there.