Keller @ Large: DeSantis Struggles To Catch Up To Trump In New Hampshire

By Jon Keller, CBS Boston

June 15, 2023

BOSTON - It's been three weeks since Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, promising in a launch video to be "an energetic executive who will spit nails and fight the needed battles every single day."

But in New Hampshire, a key early primary state where Trump-backed candidates flopped in last fall's election and the popular governor, Chris Sununu, is a harsh Trump critic, DeSantis has struggled. He led Trump by 12 points in mid-January New Hampshire polling; now, the Real Clear Politics average of the most recent surveys has him down by 18 points.

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