The Florida governor is as popular as Trump among college-educated GOP voters. But the former president’s “beer-track” support may be insurmountable.
, which has “cross tabs” for white college-educated voters, Trump’s 31-point margin would narrow to just 1 point.
This large education gap between the two dominant candidates is unusual among Republicans. It didn’t exist to this degree in 2008, 2012, or even in 2016, when Trump’s overperformance among non-college-educated Republican voters and underperformance among college grads was apparent but far less dramatic.
Why does the gap exist between two Ivy League–educated politicians with similar policy views? It may simply be a matter of the massive style difference between the crude, lowbrow former president and a Florida governor who has to fight for some populist street cred, as my colleague Jonathan Chait hasUnlike Trump, who oozed his way into Republican politics through a combination of instinct and absorbing hours of Fox News, DeSantis came to the conservative movement from the brainy end.
More recently, DeSantis seems to have grown fascinated with a different theory that has spread rapidly on the right. It posits that the far left has gained control of the media, schools, entertainment, and even many corporations, from which position it will extend its control over the rest of society … Conservatives believe they must gain control of government and use the power of the state to halt the spread of these radical theories, or else face ideological extinction.
DeSantis, Scher believes, may be a “wine-track” politician, to borrow the term often applied to such Democratic presidential candidates as
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