Gaetz's Approval Rating Is In The Toilet
Yesterday, someone noted on Twitter that Florida has the highest inflation and car insurance rates in the country and people can’t pay their skyrocketing property insurance, but the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis— really just a vanity candidate for president at this point— will be passing out free food to voters in New Hampshire on Thursday. A new poll from Florida Atlantic University shows that if registered Republicans were voting in their primary today, Trump would crush DeSantis in Florida— 61% to 20%. Asked about job approval, 49% of Floridians disapprove of how DeSantis is handling his job (41% strongly) and just 50% (38% strongly) approve. And among independent voters, just 38.4% approve of how he’s handling his job.
Out of the blue, the pollsters decided to ask about Matt Gaetz, an incediary Republican congressman from the Panhandle Among all voters, 57% disapprove of how Gaetz is performing as a member of Congress, although that varies greatly between members of different parties.
Democrats-
1.2% approve
82.9% disapprove
15.9% have no opinion or don’t know who he is
Republicans-
36.6% approve
36.3% disapprove
27.1% have no opinion or don’t know who he is
Independents-
8.5% approve
53.8% disapprove
25.2% have no opinion or don’t know who he is
Gatez’s local newspaper noted that he’s “a polarizing figure in Florida, both in and outside of the Republican Party... While Gaetz has repeatedly proven he is unbeatable in the Panhandle, the poll shows that in a statewide race, Gaetz would have a lot of work to do to win people over— not just with independents, but his own party too.”
Last year, Gaetz clobbered Democrat Rebekah Jones 197,349 (67.9%) to 93,467 (32.1%), winning in all 4 counties. It’s worth noting, though, that Gaetz spent $7,421,223 and Jones spent $929,466.
On Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures this past weekend, Kevin McCarthy, currently at war with Gaetz, predicted that Gaetz could be expelled from Congress for bad behavior. McCarthy: “I think once that Ethics complaint comes forward, he could have the same problem as Santos has. I think the conference would be probably better united to be able to move forward and get this all done.”
All I can say about this:
1) if the "ethics" committee can excoriate santos' behavior AND CRIMES but still refuse to recommend expulsion...
2) it won't matter what truth they "find" about gaetz... they won't recommend expulsion
3) nazi jesus mikey can't afford to lose either one of them.
4) gaetz actually could become governor of FL. all he has to do is beat the nazi field. beating any democrap in the general would be another walkover.
5) it would be revelatory to know WHY those polled disapprove of meathead's performance. Is it because he's basically their dictator doing anything he wants and ratfucking anyone he wants?
-OR-
is it because he hasn't done ENOUGH of all that?
ditto gaetz.