A new poll of Florida voters shows Biden surging over Trump, while support for DeSantis plummets.
A new Quinnipiac University poll of Florida voters shows Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. leading Mr. Trump by 13 percentage points, significantly outside the margin of error — a worrisome sign for Mr. Trump in a state he won four years ago.
Fifty-one percent of respondents supported Mr. Biden, compared with 38 percent who supported Mr. Trump; the margin of error was plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.
(NYT)
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The poll also found overwhelming support — 79 percent — for a statewide mask mandate to slow the spread of the coronavirus, something Gov. Ron DeSantis has resisted even as infections have skyrocketed in Florida. This is one more data point in a growing body of evidence that mask mandates, while controversial among elected officials, are extremely popular among the general public; a Quinnipiac poll released yesterday found similar support for a mandate in Texas.
Other numbers in the poll showed the depth of Floridians’ concern about the pandemic: 83 percent said the virus’s spread was a serious problem in Florida, 70 percent said it was “out of control,” and 61 percent said Mr. DeSantis had reopened the state’s economy too quickly.
[I have written several times that I could never understand—from a Trumpian political perspective—Trump’s calls to LIBERATE! states, to pressure governors to reopen. As this article just reiterates there has always been, consistently, uniformly, public preference for stopping the epidemic first, before reopening, even if that meant job loss and lost income. The public has always had the priorities right. The Democrats have always had them right. Trump has always had them backassward. He was listening only to the Looney Right and his own “instincts” ignoring clear public opinion. He has paid the political price, small potatoes to the price the country has paid.]
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The poll also found overwhelming support — 79 percent — for a statewide mask mandate to slow the spread of the coronavirus, something Gov. Ron DeSantis has resisted even as infections have skyrocketed in Florida. This is one more data point in a growing body of evidence that mask mandates, while controversial among elected officials, are extremely popular among the general public; a Quinnipiac poll released yesterday found similar support for a mandate in Texas.
Other numbers in the poll showed the depth of Floridians’ concern about the pandemic: 83 percent said the virus’s spread was a serious problem in Florida, 70 percent said it was “out of control,” and 61 percent said Mr. DeSantis had reopened the state’s economy too quickly.
[I have written several times that I could never understand—from a Trumpian political perspective—Trump’s calls to LIBERATE! states, to pressure governors to reopen. As this article just reiterates there has always been, consistently, uniformly, public preference for stopping the epidemic first, before reopening, even if that meant job loss and lost income. The public has always had the priorities right. The Democrats have always had them right. Trump has always had them backassward. He was listening only to the Looney Right and his own “instincts” ignoring clear public opinion. He has paid the political price, small potatoes to the price the country has paid.]
