{"id":1530719,"date":"2022-06-28T14:49:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530719"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:49:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:49:20","slug":"social-media-study-shows-growing-desantis-boom-among-swing-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-media-study-shows-growing-desantis-boom-among-swing-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Study Shows Growing DeSantis Boom Among Swing Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsocial-media-study-shows-growing-desantis-boom-among-swing-voters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530719&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An analysis of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-social-media\">social media<\/a> posts shared with The Epoch Times shows growing momentum for Florida\u2019s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as the GOP presidential nominee in 2024 among voters who aren\u2019t solidly in the Trump camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA sizable portion of the positive discussion (32 percent) speak of him as preferable to Trump,\u201d said the summary analysis of the research paid for by the Ready for Ron Committee\u2014a draft committee that is encouraging DeSantis to run for president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo them, he is the rightful heir and suggest the former president step aside and allow the younger man to run the gauntlet,\u201d the analysis said of the majority of surveyed voters.<\/p>\n<p>The research, which was conducted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.impactsocial.com\/news\">Impact Social<\/a>, looked at 40,000 \u201cswing\u201d voters on social media and categorized them into ten segments, from \u201cDisillusioned Trump\u201d voters, Obama-turned-Trump voters, to \u201cBernie Sanders\u201d voters.<\/p>\n<p> Trump Gets More Traction, But More Attacks Too <\/p>\n<p>While the name Trump is more prominent on social media than DeSantis, Impact Social reported that Trump-related posts attract more negative sentiment, including among right-leaners who would otherwise favor the GOP in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Impact Social analyzed\u00a0approximately 93,000 posts mentioning Trump and around 8,000 posts mentioning DeSantis made by the swing voters from June 1 to June 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is interesting to note that, despite many of these floating voters emanating from the right of the political spectrum, only a relatively small number come to Trump\u2019s defense,\u201d Impact Social said.<\/p>\n<p>The recent hearings regarding the Jan. 6 breach also haven\u2019t helped Trump among undecided voters. While the hearings have fallen far short of proving that an insurrection occurred in a legal sense, they certainly didn\u2019t burnish the image of the former president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think in retrospect, I think it would have been very smart to put [Republicans on the committee] and again,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of social media posts shared with The Epoch Times shows growing momentum for Florida\u2019s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as the GOP presidential nominee in 2024 among voters who aren\u2019t solidly in the Trump camp. \u201cA sizable portion of the positive discussion (32 percent) speak of him as preferable to Trump,\u201d said the summary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":731,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}