Several Republican voters who watched the second GOP debate said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis did better but still has an uphill battle to catch up to former president Donald Trump.
The former president skipped the debate to hold an event in Michigan at a nonunion plant where. He also did not participate in the first debate last month. In a Washington Post average of September polls, Trump leads DeSantis by 43 points.
“If we could take pieces from each of them and put them in one person with charisma and fortitude, then we’d have it right,” McDonald said. “It’s really polarizing and they’re really dividing themselves and putting themselves even further apart,” she said. “I’m feeling even more split than I was.”Early on in the debate, Jeff Angelo, host of a conservative talk show on WHO Radio, said he was curious to see how DeSantis would perform given that he hasn’t been moving up against Trump in polls, and if Haley could leverage the recent attention to her candidacy to move ahead.“In my mind, Ron DeSantis in Iowa has been spinning his wheels.
Similarly, Cataldo emphasized that he just doesn’t think Trump can win — having already lost once to Biden and now facing so many legal battles. “He did not do well in the last debate, in my opinion, but what I saw here was a little more polished, more stable,” Walter said. “There’s some people who can carry off a rant. He’s not one of them.”
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