DeSantis is always eager for a Florida fight. But so is covid.

But that approach is no guarantee of reelection. Results from St. Pete Polls taken in early August showed DeSantis’s popularity flipping, from strongly in his favor in a May poll, with 55 percent approving and 40 percent not approving, to 49 percent disapproving and 44 percent approving. As it is with polls nowadays, a survey soon after, by the Florida Chamber of Commerce, an ally of the governor’s, showed his approval rating at 54 percent.