Donald Trump is losing support amongst his conservative base.
Donald Trump is losing support amongst conservative voters
A new poll has revealed that conservative voters in the United States would prefer to see Florida governor Ron DeSantis as the Republican party's 2024 presidential nominee rather than the controversial former Commander in Chief by a 56 per cent to 33 per cent margin.
The poll, conducted by Suffolk University in Boston and USA Today, also found that current president Joe Biden had higher approval numbers than Trump.
The results follow disappointing results for Trump-backed candidates in the midterm elections last month.
David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said: "There's a new Republican sheriff in town.
"DeSantis outpolls Trump not only among the general electorate, but also among these Republican-leaning voters who have been the former president's base.
"Republicans and conservative independents increasingly want Trumpism without Trump."
Trump previously branded DeSantis as a "political lightweight" and claimed that his Republican rival had come to him in "desperate shape" when running for his first term in office in 2017.
Trump said: "He was politically dead, losing in a landslide to a very good agriculture commissioner, Adam Putnam, who was loaded up with cash and great poll numbers.
"Ron had low approval, bad polls, and no money, but he said that if I would endorse him, he could win.
"When I endorsed him, it was as though, to use a bad term, a nuclear weapon went off."
The former president added: "I also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart."
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