Sep. 21, 2022: Sunshine showdown

Published: Sept. 21, 2022, 10:09 a.m.

It\u2019s the juggernaut match-up Republicans can\u2019t stop talking about: former president Donald Trump vs. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.\n\nThe conventional wisdom for more than a year is that Trump would be impossible to beat in a GOP primary. According to a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll, that\u2019s no longer the case \u2014 at least in their home state of Florida.\n\nIn a hypothetical mano-a-mano Sunshine State presidential primary matchup, DeSantis leads Trump 48% to 40% \u2014 a major swing from January, when Trump was beating DeSantis by 7 percentage points.