DeSantis is Biden’s most formidable GOP foe: Poll

Gov. Ron DeSantis fares better against President Biden than Donald Trump in the 2024 contest for the White House, a new poll found.

Biden dispatches all of his potential Republican foes except DeSantis, whom he trails 43% to 44% — well within the margin of error, the DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners survey showed.

Other polls have shown similar results, with the Florida governor topping Biden by 1.3 percentage points, according to the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate.

DeSantis, the former president’s chief foe in the GOP primary, has made electability a core tenet of his pitch to GOP primary voters.

“l think that there’s a lot of voters who just aren’t going to vote for [Trump], who don’t like Biden,” DeSantis told “The Brian Kilmeade Show” earlier this month.

“At the end of the day, I think we have a great track record in Florida of reaching voters who had traditionally not voted Republican.”

DeSantis also has a five-point edge over Biden among independents, winning them 43% to 38%, according to the poll.

Some Republican strategists have voiced concerns Trump’s mounting legal woes — including his 37-count indictment for alleged classified document hoarding — and bombastic persona could be off-putting to voters in a general election.

Trump’s team has shrugged off many of those worries and underscored that he has a toehold over his GOP rivals thus far, with a 32.7 percentage point lead in the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate.

Trump lags behind Biden 44% to 46%, according to the DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll.

Other contenders in the polls similarly get edged out by Biden.

Former Vice President Mike Pence is down 38% to 41%, while former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie loses 32% to 39% against Biden.

The Trump vs Biden fingding is at odds with the RealClearPolitics aggregate, which pegs Trump with a 1.8% point lead over Biden.

Another key takeaway in the DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll is that many Democrat voters are wary of Biden’s age.

At 80, Biden is already the oldest president in US history. Should he win reelection, he’ll be 86 at its conclusion.

Seventy-one percent of Democrat voters feel Biden is too old, compared with 14% who feel he’s the right age and 15% who were unsure, the poll found.

The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points and was conducted from June 12 to 15 among 1,000 potential general election voters.