Trump is now leading DeSantis by eight percentage points, despite trailing behind the Florida governor by four percentage points in a previous
Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
Forty-seven percent of registered Republicans and Republican leaning independents said they would vote for Trump in their state's primary whereas 39% said that of DeSantis, the poll found.
That previous four-point lead by the Florida governor, plus Trump's new eight-point lead, makes for a total 12-point swing toward the former president.
The survey also found that Trump leads with
double digits in a wider Republican primary pool, with 45% of likely Republican voters saying they would vote for the former president in their state's primary.
DeSantis comes in second with 29% of those surveyed. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley got 4%.
Haley announced her White House bid on Feb. 14.
Looks like myself and millions of others like me will be out reluctantly voting for Biden again in 2024. I thought maybe the GOP would actually want to win the presidential election in 2024. I guess im wrong about that.