Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, after officially entering the race for the GOP presidential nomination last week, doesn't have much of a shot of improving his poll numbers against former President Donald Trump, especially considering the number of people who have already entered the race and the others who are likely to jump in, political strategist Dick Morris said on Newsmax Sunday.
"He's 18 points behind Trump in a two-way contest and 34 points behind Trump with the large field that we have now," Morris, the host of Newsmax's "Dick Morris Democracy" and the author of "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback," said on the network's "Sunday Report."
"Trump's got 50% of the vote against all nine of those candidates and a few others that haven't been announced yet that are in the survey, and he's not going to lose that lead," he added.
Further, Morris said DeSantis waited too long to enter the race, and Trump "had it sewn up before he arrived."
Morris also noted that DeSantis was almost tied in January with Trump, so the former president has developed a rally that is "basically 5 months old."
"The way he did that was not talking about the 2020 race very much, proposing new solutions and new ideas that advance the MAGA agenda and not just the stuff he succeeded in doing as president," said Morris.
