Leaked DeSantis pitch to donors loaded with 'really bad news' for his campaign: analysis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' team recently tried to pitch a group of wealthy donors about his viability as a presidential candidate.

But according to new analysis from FloridaPolitics.com publisher Peter Schorsch, the presentation was actually loaded with ominous indicators about the Florida governor's chances of toppling former President Donald Trump.

Writing in The Daily Beast, Schorsch took aim at the rosy spin that DeSantis' campaign put on early polling data intended to show his viability actually shows he has an incredibly narrow path to potential victory.

"DeSantis’ team also talked up the large share of voters in early voting states who believe DeSantis is ready to be president, with 62 percent in Iowa, 50 percent in New Hampshire, 47 percent in South Carolina, and 56 percent in Nevada," he writes. "What the talking points ignore is that 27-42 percent of voters in those states believe he’s not ready. Political campaigners know they have to boast about any metric showing net favorability. But any political observer would tell you those large negative numbers are a discouraging sign for a candidate, especially one with near-universal name ID."

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Additionally, DeSantis's team showed polling of Republican primary voters revealed that they believed he was more conservative than Trump.

What they left out, Schorsch writes, is that self-identified "more conservative" primary voters nonetheless favor Trump over DeSantis by significant margins.

Summing up the entire pitch, Schorsch concluded that, "the presentation, at best, paved a very narrow path to victory for the governor" and "at worst, it succeeded in highlighting Trump’s path to victory, and not one for DeSantis as intended."