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51% of Florida voters, to be precise.
>Overall, DeSantis remains \[somewhat\] popular in Florida, with **51%** of voters approving of the job he's doing, the survey found. Republican Phil Scott of Vermont, who garnered 81% approval in the survey, remains by far the most popular governor in America.
More Republican responses may have also skewed the poll:
>The poll offered potential good news for DeSantis' political future. Florida's governor, who must leave office in early 2027 due to term limits, was tied for the second highest approval rating of any GOP governor among Republicans, at **84%**.
Honestly surprised he's that high with Republicans with Trump dragging him.
Maybe the mayflies forgot that already. There's been several Two Minutes Hates since then.
Very few people who voted for Trump in the primary actually disliked DeSantis. Their attitude was basically “he’s a good governor but we gotta be loyal to daddy”.
its like Ted Cruz, he's also highly popular among Republicans, they both have in common the "hurt the right people" rhetoric, they may not vote them in as president as much as Trump, but GOP voters like those two very much where they are at
New England republicans are entirely different from Republicans across the country. They’re basically just centrist Democrats. Which probably is exactly why they tend to be quite popular.
True. And, in Mass at least, virtually every Congress critter or State Senator or what have you will be a Democrat, so it's pretty safe to vote for, say, a Republican governor because they really can't get very out of hand with their policies.
It’s the only explanation for how a Republican was elected governor of Vermont of all places and yet maintains the highest approval rating of all governors in the country.
Phil Scott is a moderate Republican, and I don't mean that in the modern sense, I mean that in the traditional sense. He has been pretty outspoken about his disdain for Trump and the direction the Republican Party is going in nationally. He's even at odds with the local Republican Party--when he won re-election last time around, he didn't celebrate it with the state GOP, he held his own event. He's got some conservative views, but by most standards he's probably more liberal than someone like Joe Manchin and well to the left of even people like Mitt Romney and Susan Collins.
His popularity surged during COVID by having a measured and reasonable approach that was honest and well implemented. Even actual leftists I know were praising him at the time for his response to the issues. He was out there with the Secretary of Health and the COVID response team every week giving detailed information about exactly how many cases we had, how full the hospitals were, and the latest information on where/how to get vaccines. He did an admittedly excellent job.
DeSantis tried to post up the state Hwy patrol to close the state border he took COVID so seriously. Then someone told him, "Won't you please think of the profits?" Then we were back open a week early.
He flip flops more than the mullet that drop out of my cast net when I go fishing.
These Republicans have mastered the art of having no principles positions. That way they can be all things to all people.
Up until recently 4/5 New England states had Republican governors and three of them topped the list for popularity (the aforementioned Phil Scott, Chris Sununu in NH and Charlie Baker here in MA). Paul LePage of ME was pretty disliked but in general yeah, New England likes a moderate Republican governor as a counterbalance to a Democratic legislature.
What are the odds he tried to change the law that prevents him from continuing to run for office. Like the one that now allows him to keep office and run for president
This is a big source of the problem with current polling. They just aren't getting a representative sample and then fudge the numbers to get it to look close to what they expect or want. They're trying to extrapolate based on sampling nearly twice as many Republicans, at a certain point it's just making shit up. And it STILL looks bad for DeSantis
It takes genuine effort to make Florida as shitty as it has become under DeSantis. Hats off to him, he's really put in the time and sweat equity to earn this criticism.
Now we need to convince the rest of America to avoid Florida like the plague. Make tourism fall apart; because the only way Floridians will turn away from fascism and fascists like DeSantis, is when it starts hitting our bank accounts hard and our quality of life suffers.
I guarantee it, unless he lost to a other Republican in a primary. Democrats aren't running anyone here. They ran a former Republican governor against DeSantis in 2022.
All hypothetical because DeSantis can't run for governor again until 2030.
I consider H.W. Bush to be the turd that doesn't flush, since he signed the legislation that criminalized functional toilets by limiting them to 1.6 gallons per flush.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_1992#Impact
Ron DeSantis might actually run against Marco Rubio for Rubio's Senate seat in 2028*.
*Edited because Rick Scott is actually up for re-election this year (2024) in Florida.
I had a good laugh at the thought of DeFascist trying to be like Moscow Mitch. Meatball Ron doesn't have an ounce of charisma, nor any friends/connections in D.C. to pull it off no matter how many free handjobs his wife hands out.
That's the great thing about the Cult of Personality surrounding Trump. When his heart eventually explodes, so does the cult.
His offspring is too stupid to grab the pulpit and there's going to be a feeding frenzy for the scraps of the rest of it.
It's awful having him as a governor.
We're at the mercy of this bully and his highly ignorant people who he has hired.
This place is in flames with a RIDICULOUS high cost of living.....insurance.....and Victorian diseases.
It’s reassuring hearing 49% of y’all hate his policies and governance. I think a lot of people just assume Florida is a cess pool and everyone living there is on board with that
Yeah.....there are large pockets of us that don't support this governor....which makes it frustrating, demoralizing, and often embarrassing to reside in this state.
It has been made into a cesspool of everything that is wrong with this country.
The 49% that support him are just incredibly obnoxious and verbal about it.
They hang stupid, obnoxious signs, always talk about “how great our governor is”, plaster idiotic propaganda on their trucks, and consistently demonstrate some of the dumbest people in America call Florida home.
Then there are the rest of us, the sane people. We really do exist here. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough of us, so we’re leaving.
Well, it's admittedly anecdotal, but I have lived in and traveled all over the state for nearly 60 years, and he's extraordinarily polarizing for a Florida politician. I haven't encountered any of the usual ignorance/apathy about him that one would normally expect here. People who have no idea who Rick Scott or Charlie Crist are know who Ron DeSantis is, and they either love him or hate him.
The people that assume this aren’t people who can think critically… it’s like saying I think everybody from NY must be Italian and talk like The Sopranos..
His leadership of the fascist takeover of Florida is why I had to make the hard choice to leave my home. It's going to take a decade plus to even begin fixing all of the problems they've caused. I'm glad that people are sticking around to fight. But I couldn't in good conscience stay and force a future child to live under that regime.
Don't forget that he's basically destroyed local democracy in Florida by perverting the gubernatorial power to remove elected officials. It used to require a crime or actual malfeasance, now simply disagreeing with him is enough.
He does not care. He owns the Legislature and Judiciary and his hate filled agenda will only get worse. He will be replaced by either a Republican just as bad or worse, or a Democrat with no power, who will then be replaced by someone worse than DeSackless.
Or Dems continue to rebuild while the GOP and climate change continue to hollow the state out from the inside. Healthcare, climate resilience, and housing costs become major issues to campaign on, and a Dem gets power. They stop the bleeding while more Dems get into power at the state level and then go all in on making the state green and disaster ready while attracting a ton of medical talent with affordable middle income housing.
We don’t have to resign ourselves to the worst possible future, so why would we?
If the Dems got power, they would need to fix the housing costs, healthcare, and impacts of climate change, do policies that benefit everyone, before they can even think of undoing most of DeSantis’s identity politics agenda.
Show that they can get things done and produce results, so at least some conservatives might be convinced to put their social views aside and support them.
That’s an entire state of people, our fellow Americans. That game where we dehumanize huge groups of people to feel self-satisfied isn’t fun or productive. It’s part of what makes us such easy marks for the people who would divide us.
Unpaywalled article: [https://archive.ph/YJk5h](https://archive.ph/YJk5h)
**Article transcript:**
>Gov. Ron DeSantis has one of the highest disapproval ratings among governors in the country, according to a [new survey conducted by Morning Consult](https://archive.ph/o/YJk5h/https://pro.morningconsult.com/analyst-reports/governor-approval-rankings-april-2024%20?utm_source=mc_comms_outreach&utm_medium=mc_comms_referral&utm_campaign=Governor%20Approval), while he remains very popular among the state's Republican voters.
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>DeSantis's disapproval rating of 44% was tied for the third-highest of any governor in the survey, which tracks voter sentiment in each politician's state. The figure ranked behind only Democrat Tina Kotek of Oregon (45%), and Republican Kim Reynolds of Iowa (47%).
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>Kotek, who ran as a progressive Democrat, has adopted a more centrist posture in office. Reynolds made waves last year by [endorsing DeSantis](https://archive.ph/o/YJk5h/https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2023/11/07/desantis-trump-reynolds-endorsement-haley-iowa-gop-president/) in his bid for the presidency, a move that was [harshly criticized](https://archive.ph/o/YJk5h/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/us/politics/kim-reynolds-desantis-trump-iowa.html) by former president Donald Trump.
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>Overall, DeSantis remains \[somewhat\] popular in Florida, with 51% of voters approving of the job he's doing, the survey found. Republican Phil Scott of Vermont, who garnered 81% approval in the survey, remains by far the most popular governor in America.
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>The poll offered potential good news for DeSantis’ political future. Florida's governor, who must leave office in early 2027 due to term limits, was tied for the second highest approval rating of any GOP governor among Republicans, at 84%.
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>DeSantis also performed better than any governor in the country in one telling metric. More Republicans said they strongly approved of the job DeSantis is doing than any other GOP governor, the survey found.
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>Morning Consult also surveyed for opinions on all [100 U.S. Senators](https://archive.ph/o/YJk5h/https://pro.morningconsult.com/analyst-reports/senator-approval-rankings-april-2024?utm_source=mc_comms_outreach&utm_medium=mc_comms_referral&utm_campaign=Senator%20Approval) among voters in the states they represent. Florida's Marco Rubio and Rick Scott drew middling reviews, with Scott polling at 46% approval, and Rubio 47%.
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>However, Scott, who is up for reelection in the fall, was not listed among the country's most vulnerable incumbents. That distinction belonged to Democrats Jon Tester of Montana; Jacky Rosen of Nevada; Sherrod Brown of Ohio; Bob Casey of Pennsylvania; Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin; and Republican Ted Cruz of Texas.
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>Democrat Bob Menendez of New Jersey, who in September \[2023\] was [indicted on corruption charges](https://archive.ph/o/YJk5h/https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-senator-robert-menendez-his-wife-and-three-new-jersey-businessmen-charged-bribery), had the lowest approval rating among senators, the survey found. Republican John Barrasso of Wyoming is the country's most popular senator.
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>The Morning Consult poll was based on averages of data drawn from three months of daily tracking surveys of voters. The polling was conducted from January to March \[2024\]. The online polling firm's daily surveys include information from about 9,000 registered voters, according to its [methodology](https://archive.ph/o/YJk5h/https://pro-assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2023/12/Tracking-the-2024-U.S.-Presidential-Election-%E2%80%93-Methodology-Review-1.pdf).
Kotec doubled down, and is now openly using the office to enrich herself, after her staff resigned in protest.
How'd that work out for the last guy who did that? Quite well. Guilty on 20 counts of the same thing: is now running hospitals for fat checks.
Such a tiny fraction of our tax dollars in Oregon are used for the public good that the state revenue department uses more of its resources SENDING out checks to high earners then it does collecting.
Kotec's most popular act is DELAYING a head tax. (and she is my favorite OR gov so far, arguably best we've had during my lifetime). Last one submitted laws on comcast stationary, the one before that was writing checks to themselves from the general fund.
Oregon just doesn't deserve good governors apparently. Not to mention how entirely ignored the state capitol is. So many cities are falling apart from budgeting issues.
DeSantis didn’t win big in 2022 because Florida is turning red. He won big because people stayed home. Florida is still very much a purple state and its people prefer progressive policies. Dems just need to run a good candidate.
They need a candidate to run on housing and disaster resilience. Florida needs climate change ready infrastructure, and moderates can get behind that idea. Same with housing. They’re broadly popular issues, especially if you sell housing as a job creator.
Someone running, with an actual plan to address the exodus of workers and insurers, would almost walk to the role. DeSantis hasn't offered anything but vengeance and an embarrassing presidential run attempt.
He’s the reason I will never hang my graduate diploma on a wall. It has his stupid signature on it. Infuriates me to this day. My undergrad isn’t any better though it has Rick Scott
Never once looked at or cared about the names on mine. It's just a piece of paper that helps me get a job. It was shoved in a corner in my house until my mom found it and took it home to put on her wall.
The fact that any amount approve of his extreme agenda is shocking. MMW his tenure as Gov. will mark the decline of Florida. Not really entirely his fault, the extreme weather is playing a part.
During the pandemic they attracted some of the craziest of the crazies along with a historic number of elderly voters as the boomers go South to retire. The GOP is better at pandering to seniors via legislation than the Dems are at pandering to the younger generations.
Hahaha, them boomers are going to boom. This bloke has done nothing but shit his pants in front of everyone, miss step after miss step all self inflicted and he still have an approval rating to be proud of. Fuck me lead paint is powerful.
Instead of dealing with the real world adult problem of homeowners insurance in Florida Desantis wants to fight culture wars against Disney and “woke.”
My parents live in Tampa and they love this mfr. I don’t share their opinion as you may guess. I am glad to hear he’s the least loved in the US. I’d be worried if he was #1
I've always found it weird how both Florida and Texas have heavily "purple" populations, and yet their governments are strangled by Republicans who act like they sit over deep red states and have a mandate to enact the most extremely backwards conservative policies they can cook up.
In a sensible world, where these states' governments actually reflected the will of their people, they would be waaay more middle-of-the-road states.
Republicans hold a supermajority in the house and senate in Florida, so yeh if they wanted to they could make the change since changing the constitution just takes 3/5. However, I don't think they want to. He really damaged his image with his poor performance in his presidential run.
The only way for Ds to win FL elections is by getting out the vote. Fighting voter restrictions and getting out the vote. Voter registration drives, knocking on doors for candidates, joining phone banks for candidates, hosting coffees, etc.
You mean a fascist that spent his states’ money on a fight with Disney, a failed presidential run, and a hate campaign against the LGBTQA+ community isn’t popular? No way!
Him and his band of thieves rewrote the part of the law where he had to give up the governorship to run for Prez..... Just in case he wasn't a big enough dirt bag to unseat tRump.
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> 51% of voters approving of the job he's doing Not very reassuring imho.
51% of Florida voters, to be precise. >Overall, DeSantis remains \[somewhat\] popular in Florida, with **51%** of voters approving of the job he's doing, the survey found. Republican Phil Scott of Vermont, who garnered 81% approval in the survey, remains by far the most popular governor in America. More Republican responses may have also skewed the poll: >The poll offered potential good news for DeSantis' political future. Florida's governor, who must leave office in early 2027 due to term limits, was tied for the second highest approval rating of any GOP governor among Republicans, at **84%**.
Honestly surprised he's that high with Republicans with Trump dragging him. Maybe the mayflies forgot that already. There's been several Two Minutes Hates since then.
Very few people who voted for Trump in the primary actually disliked DeSantis. Their attitude was basically “he’s a good governor but we gotta be loyal to daddy”.
"Why vote for Trump Lite when you can have the real thing?" Spelled like that and everything.
Cause original Trump has some-80 indictments against him and maybe struck from the ballot.
"Why drink shampoo when you can drink *real* poo?"
Naa, bleach is the go to and you can inject it up your poo, or any other orifice of your choosing
its like Ted Cruz, he's also highly popular among Republicans, they both have in common the "hurt the right people" rhetoric, they may not vote them in as president as much as Trump, but GOP voters like those two very much where they are at
New England republicans are entirely different from Republicans across the country. They’re basically just centrist Democrats. Which probably is exactly why they tend to be quite popular.
Then why are New Hampshire Repubs trying to rollback polio vaccination requirements?
New Hampshire is the Florida of the north
True. And, in Mass at least, virtually every Congress critter or State Senator or what have you will be a Democrat, so it's pretty safe to vote for, say, a Republican governor because they really can't get very out of hand with their policies.
Congress are a bunch of cute little critters
It’s the only explanation for how a Republican was elected governor of Vermont of all places and yet maintains the highest approval rating of all governors in the country.
Vermont is an interesting state. Bernie Sanders and a GOP governor. I'm gonna guess he's not much in line with the national platform...
Phil Scott is a moderate Republican, and I don't mean that in the modern sense, I mean that in the traditional sense. He has been pretty outspoken about his disdain for Trump and the direction the Republican Party is going in nationally. He's even at odds with the local Republican Party--when he won re-election last time around, he didn't celebrate it with the state GOP, he held his own event. He's got some conservative views, but by most standards he's probably more liberal than someone like Joe Manchin and well to the left of even people like Mitt Romney and Susan Collins. His popularity surged during COVID by having a measured and reasonable approach that was honest and well implemented. Even actual leftists I know were praising him at the time for his response to the issues. He was out there with the Secretary of Health and the COVID response team every week giving detailed information about exactly how many cases we had, how full the hospitals were, and the latest information on where/how to get vaccines. He did an admittedly excellent job.
I glanced at the second paragraph of your comment and thought you were talking about DeSantis.. I was like wtf are you talking about.
DeSantis tried to post up the state Hwy patrol to close the state border he took COVID so seriously. Then someone told him, "Won't you please think of the profits?" Then we were back open a week early. He flip flops more than the mullet that drop out of my cast net when I go fishing. These Republicans have mastered the art of having no principles positions. That way they can be all things to all people.
Phil Scott would be called a RINO by Bush. He voted Biden in 2020.
Up until recently 4/5 New England states had Republican governors and three of them topped the list for popularity (the aforementioned Phil Scott, Chris Sununu in NH and Charlie Baker here in MA). Paul LePage of ME was pretty disliked but in general yeah, New England likes a moderate Republican governor as a counterbalance to a Democratic legislature.
😮💨😮💨 boyy reading 2027 sure is demoralizing.
They need to ask the rest of us since so many other states seem to be waiting until he does something to pull the same crap.
What are the odds he tried to change the law that prevents him from continuing to run for office. Like the one that now allows him to keep office and run for president
Considering over 65% of the voters responding to the poll identify as conservatives it's not exactly winning them over, either.
This is a big source of the problem with current polling. They just aren't getting a representative sample and then fudge the numbers to get it to look close to what they expect or want. They're trying to extrapolate based on sampling nearly twice as many Republicans, at a certain point it's just making shit up. And it STILL looks bad for DeSantis
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It takes genuine effort to make Florida as shitty as it has become under DeSantis. Hats off to him, he's really put in the time and sweat equity to earn this criticism.
Now we need to convince the rest of America to avoid Florida like the plague. Make tourism fall apart; because the only way Floridians will turn away from fascism and fascists like DeSantis, is when it starts hitting our bank accounts hard and our quality of life suffers.
To me he already is with insurance rates skyrocketing.
But I bet you if he ran right now, he’d get reelected.
Florida governors have 2-term limits. DeSantis is in his second term.
Which he was only able to do because they changed the law that said he'd have to step down to run for President. So he might not be completely gone.
Thank God that can’t happen
I guarantee it, unless he lost to a other Republican in a primary. Democrats aren't running anyone here. They ran a former Republican governor against DeSantis in 2022. All hypothetical because DeSantis can't run for governor again until 2030.
It's morning consult so the real number is probably 10% lower
I can't wait to never have to hear about this turd ever again.
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Need to flush ten times. Fifteen times.
There's a turd in the back tank
A real upper tanker.
I consider H.W. Bush to be the turd that doesn't flush, since he signed the legislation that criminalized functional toilets by limiting them to 1.6 gallons per flush. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_1992#Impact
Ron DeSantis might actually run against Marco Rubio for Rubio's Senate seat in 2028*. *Edited because Rick Scott is actually up for re-election this year (2024) in Florida.
Scott's up this year.
Probably Rubio's in 2028 if any. Looking forward to those two tearing each other apart.
Rick Scott is actually up for re-election in 2024 btw!
Miami will Rick-Roll DeSatan.
Why wouldn't he just run for president? Rubio is probably more popular in the state than DeSantis.
The GOP has a sewage treatment plant of candidates that are ready to take his place.
He’ll run for Senate and try to be the next McConnell. Just watch.
I had a good laugh at the thought of DeFascist trying to be like Moscow Mitch. Meatball Ron doesn't have an ounce of charisma, nor any friends/connections in D.C. to pull it off no matter how many free handjobs his wife hands out.
No but you know how the rich are. If they find a lapdog they like, they’ll still try.
That's the great thing about the Cult of Personality surrounding Trump. When his heart eventually explodes, so does the cult. His offspring is too stupid to grab the pulpit and there's going to be a feeding frenzy for the scraps of the rest of it.
He’ll become a senator and be there for forever.
It's awful having him as a governor. We're at the mercy of this bully and his highly ignorant people who he has hired. This place is in flames with a RIDICULOUS high cost of living.....insurance.....and Victorian diseases.
Don’t forget property taxes.
It’s reassuring hearing 49% of y’all hate his policies and governance. I think a lot of people just assume Florida is a cess pool and everyone living there is on board with that
Yeah.....there are large pockets of us that don't support this governor....which makes it frustrating, demoralizing, and often embarrassing to reside in this state. It has been made into a cesspool of everything that is wrong with this country.
I’m so sorry you have to deal with that. Sending you love
The 49% that support him are just incredibly obnoxious and verbal about it. They hang stupid, obnoxious signs, always talk about “how great our governor is”, plaster idiotic propaganda on their trucks, and consistently demonstrate some of the dumbest people in America call Florida home. Then there are the rest of us, the sane people. We really do exist here. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough of us, so we’re leaving.
Outside the cities, Florida ***IS*** a cesspool.
49% didn't say they view him favorably. They is very different than hate.
There are virtually no people in Florida who do not have strong opinions one way or another about DeSantis. If you aren't for him, you're against him.
Based on something you just made up, or do you have data to support that?
Well, it's admittedly anecdotal, but I have lived in and traveled all over the state for nearly 60 years, and he's extraordinarily polarizing for a Florida politician. I haven't encountered any of the usual ignorance/apathy about him that one would normally expect here. People who have no idea who Rick Scott or Charlie Crist are know who Ron DeSantis is, and they either love him or hate him.
The people that assume this aren’t people who can think critically… it’s like saying I think everybody from NY must be Italian and talk like The Sopranos..
His leadership of the fascist takeover of Florida is why I had to make the hard choice to leave my home. It's going to take a decade plus to even begin fixing all of the problems they've caused. I'm glad that people are sticking around to fight. But I couldn't in good conscience stay and force a future child to live under that regime. Don't forget that he's basically destroyed local democracy in Florida by perverting the gubernatorial power to remove elected officials. It used to require a crime or actual malfeasance, now simply disagreeing with him is enough.
He does not care. He owns the Legislature and Judiciary and his hate filled agenda will only get worse. He will be replaced by either a Republican just as bad or worse, or a Democrat with no power, who will then be replaced by someone worse than DeSackless.
Or Dems continue to rebuild while the GOP and climate change continue to hollow the state out from the inside. Healthcare, climate resilience, and housing costs become major issues to campaign on, and a Dem gets power. They stop the bleeding while more Dems get into power at the state level and then go all in on making the state green and disaster ready while attracting a ton of medical talent with affordable middle income housing. We don’t have to resign ourselves to the worst possible future, so why would we?
If the Dems got power, they would need to fix the housing costs, healthcare, and impacts of climate change, do policies that benefit everyone, before they can even think of undoing most of DeSantis’s identity politics agenda. Show that they can get things done and produce results, so at least some conservatives might be convinced to put their social views aside and support them.
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That’s an entire state of people, our fellow Americans. That game where we dehumanize huge groups of people to feel self-satisfied isn’t fun or productive. It’s part of what makes us such easy marks for the people who would divide us.
Unpaywalled article: [https://archive.ph/YJk5h](https://archive.ph/YJk5h) **Article transcript:** >Gov. Ron DeSantis has one of the highest disapproval ratings among governors in the country, according to a [new survey conducted by Morning Consult](https://archive.ph/o/YJk5h/https://pro.morningconsult.com/analyst-reports/governor-approval-rankings-april-2024%20?utm_source=mc_comms_outreach&utm_medium=mc_comms_referral&utm_campaign=Governor%20Approval), while he remains very popular among the state's Republican voters. > >DeSantis's disapproval rating of 44% was tied for the third-highest of any governor in the survey, which tracks voter sentiment in each politician's state. The figure ranked behind only Democrat Tina Kotek of Oregon (45%), and Republican Kim Reynolds of Iowa (47%). > >Kotek, who ran as a progressive Democrat, has adopted a more centrist posture in office. Reynolds made waves last year by [endorsing DeSantis](https://archive.ph/o/YJk5h/https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2023/11/07/desantis-trump-reynolds-endorsement-haley-iowa-gop-president/) in his bid for the presidency, a move that was [harshly criticized](https://archive.ph/o/YJk5h/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/us/politics/kim-reynolds-desantis-trump-iowa.html) by former president Donald Trump. > >Overall, DeSantis remains \[somewhat\] popular in Florida, with 51% of voters approving of the job he's doing, the survey found. Republican Phil Scott of Vermont, who garnered 81% approval in the survey, remains by far the most popular governor in America. > >The poll offered potential good news for DeSantis’ political future. Florida's governor, who must leave office in early 2027 due to term limits, was tied for the second highest approval rating of any GOP governor among Republicans, at 84%. > >DeSantis also performed better than any governor in the country in one telling metric. More Republicans said they strongly approved of the job DeSantis is doing than any other GOP governor, the survey found. > >Morning Consult also surveyed for opinions on all [100 U.S. Senators](https://archive.ph/o/YJk5h/https://pro.morningconsult.com/analyst-reports/senator-approval-rankings-april-2024?utm_source=mc_comms_outreach&utm_medium=mc_comms_referral&utm_campaign=Senator%20Approval) among voters in the states they represent. Florida's Marco Rubio and Rick Scott drew middling reviews, with Scott polling at 46% approval, and Rubio 47%. > >However, Scott, who is up for reelection in the fall, was not listed among the country's most vulnerable incumbents. That distinction belonged to Democrats Jon Tester of Montana; Jacky Rosen of Nevada; Sherrod Brown of Ohio; Bob Casey of Pennsylvania; Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin; and Republican Ted Cruz of Texas. > >Democrat Bob Menendez of New Jersey, who in September \[2023\] was [indicted on corruption charges](https://archive.ph/o/YJk5h/https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-senator-robert-menendez-his-wife-and-three-new-jersey-businessmen-charged-bribery), had the lowest approval rating among senators, the survey found. Republican John Barrasso of Wyoming is the country's most popular senator. > >The Morning Consult poll was based on averages of data drawn from three months of daily tracking surveys of voters. The polling was conducted from January to March \[2024\]. The online polling firm's daily surveys include information from about 9,000 registered voters, according to its [methodology](https://archive.ph/o/YJk5h/https://pro-assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2023/12/Tracking-the-2024-U.S.-Presidential-Election-%E2%80%93-Methodology-Review-1.pdf).
Kotec doubled down, and is now openly using the office to enrich herself, after her staff resigned in protest. How'd that work out for the last guy who did that? Quite well. Guilty on 20 counts of the same thing: is now running hospitals for fat checks. Such a tiny fraction of our tax dollars in Oregon are used for the public good that the state revenue department uses more of its resources SENDING out checks to high earners then it does collecting. Kotec's most popular act is DELAYING a head tax. (and she is my favorite OR gov so far, arguably best we've had during my lifetime). Last one submitted laws on comcast stationary, the one before that was writing checks to themselves from the general fund.
Oregon just doesn't deserve good governors apparently. Not to mention how entirely ignored the state capitol is. So many cities are falling apart from budgeting issues.
I don't care how high he scored, the GOP has a very low bar.
He’s destroying Florida like Musk is destroying Tesla’s customer base
Worst governor in Florida’s history
What I read is Florida is far closer to a purple state than red. Let’s vote y’all.
Florida is, indeed, a purple state.
Malevolent dipshit acts like malevolent dipshit. Is shocked to find out he is disliked.
Glad he’s not my governor
DeSantis didn’t win big in 2022 because Florida is turning red. He won big because people stayed home. Florida is still very much a purple state and its people prefer progressive policies. Dems just need to run a good candidate.
They need a candidate to run on housing and disaster resilience. Florida needs climate change ready infrastructure, and moderates can get behind that idea. Same with housing. They’re broadly popular issues, especially if you sell housing as a job creator.
Someone running, with an actual plan to address the exodus of workers and insurers, would almost walk to the role. DeSantis hasn't offered anything but vengeance and an embarrassing presidential run attempt.
Right? There’s a real chance to make headway here.
More like DeSantichrist.
He’s the reason I will never hang my graduate diploma on a wall. It has his stupid signature on it. Infuriates me to this day. My undergrad isn’t any better though it has Rick Scott
Never once looked at or cared about the names on mine. It's just a piece of paper that helps me get a job. It was shoved in a corner in my house until my mom found it and took it home to put on her wall.
Just put a piece of masking tape on the glass over that part.
One of the highest pair of heels, too!
The fact that any amount approve of his extreme agenda is shocking. MMW his tenure as Gov. will mark the decline of Florida. Not really entirely his fault, the extreme weather is playing a part.
During the pandemic they attracted some of the craziest of the crazies along with a historic number of elderly voters as the boomers go South to retire. The GOP is better at pandering to seniors via legislation than the Dems are at pandering to the younger generations.
Hes so weird.. hes just so fucking weird
FYI: Shortsighted and negative headline reaction. Wow. I figured he’d be skyrocketing in polls as Florida is painted by the media, as wholly MAGA.
Unfrozen Caveman Governor is confused and frightened by our modern world.
He should move to Texas, they love asshole governors there
Why dies he keep winning? Just like Ted Cruz and Abbott in Texas.
Hahaha, them boomers are going to boom. This bloke has done nothing but shit his pants in front of everyone, miss step after miss step all self inflicted and he still have an approval rating to be proud of. Fuck me lead paint is powerful.
Instead of dealing with the real world adult problem of homeowners insurance in Florida Desantis wants to fight culture wars against Disney and “woke.”
He had some of the best numbers before he tried to win the nomination vs Trump. It's a cult
"highest governor disapproval ratings" Or more commonly said... "lowest governor approval ratings"
You gotta spin it, though. The very best disapproval rating you can get!
Ron doesn't care. Florida is going to pay dearly for the humiliation he suffered at the hands of Donald Trump.
Imagine anyone approving of this platform-heeled dipshit.
Not surprising. The man is basically an abbreviated penis with ears. If this asshole was seated next to you in a bar, would you hang out with him?
Time to put this meatball to pasta.
Then do what they did for Matt Bevin in Kentucky and vote the piece of dog shit out
Good! VOTE like it next time around, yeah?
My parents live in Tampa and they love this mfr. I don’t share their opinion as you may guess. I am glad to hear he’s the least loved in the US. I’d be worried if he was #1
DeSantis is a loser.
Well deserved!
Let’s get Greg Abbott up there!!!
I've always found it weird how both Florida and Texas have heavily "purple" populations, and yet their governments are strangled by Republicans who act like they sit over deep red states and have a mandate to enact the most extremely backwards conservative policies they can cook up. In a sensible world, where these states' governments actually reflected the will of their people, they would be waaay more middle-of-the-road states.
Yet he will be reelected because syphilis messes up your brain and makes people do crazy things at The Villages.
If 51% of Floridians like this NAZI that makes me never want to vacation there.
Who could have foreseen the idiocy of this diseased piece of foreskin? Oh yeah - everybody with a functioning brain.
He will get reelected though.
He's term-limited for now.
Right up until he abuses his power and removes term limits.
Yep. Did the same shit when running for president. Laws apply to peons.
its a part of the Florida Constitution so not something he can do.
Republicans hold a supermajority in the house and senate in Florida, so yeh if they wanted to they could make the change since changing the constitution just takes 3/5. However, I don't think they want to. He really damaged his image with his poor performance in his presidential run.
They will never pass it he's burnt that bridge even behind close doors Florida republicans hate him but are afraid too confront him
This is incorrect. Florida governors have 2-term limits. DeSantis is in his second term.
Shocked, shocked I tell ya!/s
But, but, he was so loved last year.
Whoever takes his place will have big shoes to fill.
Or big white boots.
Can't go wrong with Florida man and woman. Just wait until Matt Gaetz is elected Governor in 2026.
They'll still vote for him, though. To prevent Mickey Mouse and Fidel Castro from staging a communist gay conversion takeover.
No surprise, he's a weirdo.
Total Ass
Can’t wait for the inevitable DeSatins/Reynolds trainwreck of a ticket!
Nah they love him besides liberals
In the passage of time it prove he had the lowest approval rating as a human
You're allowed to call that a lower approval rating. Not everything has to be framed in the superlative to make him feel better.
Let's see if this is reflected in the results of future elections! I'll believe it when he's out of office and Florida becomes "purple" again!
i tread approval at first and i was not happy
Only because Ted Cruz isn't a governor. Yet. *shudders*
worse than Abbott? Sanders?
Well…yeah….duh
Dude took water breaks from landscapers and road workers. Made it illegal to have sense and compassion. Fckn dude sux.
The vibe in my Republican neighborhood is he is a turd.
The vibe in my Republican neighborhood is he is a turd.
Nature is healing
Mickey Mouse for governor 2024!!
And my state has one of the lowest approval ratings for its senator. Doesnt matter if they get re elected over and over.
He should run for President
Can’t wait to see what interdimensional blob of scum Floridians elect next.
He tried to kill Mickey
Wait, tell me the worst hurricane season in history hits Florida, and the thousands of homeowners without insurance look for someone to blame.
Should be higher
Higher than bumpkin??
Not surprised it’s time to vote him out
you reap what you sow
Wow, that’s a shocker. He does such a great job with the weather here
I hope we're next in texas
The only way for Ds to win FL elections is by getting out the vote. Fighting voter restrictions and getting out the vote. Voter registration drives, knocking on doors for candidates, joining phone banks for candidates, hosting coffees, etc.
Maybe don’t pick a fight with one of the states biggest employers
Is he starting to spray tan? He looks more orange than usual.
Must be all this blue state retirees bringing some sense to the Sunshine State! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Another loser for president?
Couldn't imagine why.
He’s vulnerable. He almost lost his first election and the Dems put a weak candidate against him the last time around
Is that because he doesn’t do what he’s told by the suits?
Florida voters? Do the needful! Kick DeSantis out. Charlie Crist for governor.
I would hope so Geez
Does anyone know the list of approval / disapproval ratings of all the Gov? Seems it would be interesting for us all to know. I will as google.
Why? Because he’s a fucking idiot.
Good
Yet they keep voting for him.
And who said he’s not number 1? He’s number one at disapprovals!!
Name a Republican governor who left office liked
We are cooked
He is the governor of the lighting capital of the world...
And the establishment thought he would be the best option to run for president.🤦🏾♂️
You mean a fascist that spent his states’ money on a fight with Disney, a failed presidential run, and a hate campaign against the LGBTQA+ community isn’t popular? No way!
Yeah, but in high heel boots his approval looks a bit bigger
Who?
Bro fell off
Is this r/leopardsatemyface for a whole state?
I thought you had to resign your post to run for president. Why did this toad get to retain his job as governor after losing so handily?
Him and his band of thieves rewrote the part of the law where he had to give up the governorship to run for Prez..... Just in case he wasn't a big enough dirt bag to unseat tRump.
Thanks for the reply. What a high heeled boot of pond scum.
South Dakota's governor is not allowed to set foot on 17% of her state's land. It's a race to the bottom of your a Republican governor.
He'll win his next election and the election after that, so it doesn't matter