{"id":6905,"date":"2025-10-16T17:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6905\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:32:48","slug":"byron-donalds-continues-to-dominate-jay-collins-paul-renner-in-gop-primary-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6905\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Donalds continues to dominate Jay Collins, Paul Renner in GOP Primary Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Pete Polls found he would also handily beat Casey DeSantis in a head-to-head race.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds remains in a dominant position in the Republican Primary for Governor, polling shows.<\/p>\n

A new St. Pete Polls<\/a> survey shows Donalds would win more than 39% of the vote in a Republican Primary against Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, who has less than 4% support, and former House Speaker Paul Renner, who shows up with less than 3%.<\/p>\n

While more than half of likely Republican Primary voters remain undecided, that shows the Naples Republican continuing to massively outperform either of the two high-profile Republicans most likely to appear on the Primary ballot next year.<\/p>\n

Renner announced his campaign for Governor last month<\/a>. Many have expected Collins to run<\/a> to succeed Gov. Ron DeSantis, who appointed the Tampa Republican as Lieutenant Governor in August<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pollsters also tested Donalds\u2019 performance if he were in a head-to-head against only Collins. In such a race, Donalds would win more than 52% of the vote to Collins\u2019 nearly 12%.<\/p>\n

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If Donalds faced another rumored contender, Casey DeSantis, things would be marginally more competitive. But the Congressman still leads a head-to-head Primary with 47% support to the First Lady\u2019s 21%.<\/p>\n

In both head-to-head races, pollsters informed voters that Donalds had President Donald Trump\u2019s endorsement<\/a>, while Collins or Casey DeSantis would likely have the endorsement of Gov. DeSantis.<\/p>\n

The poll of 1,034 likely Primary voters was taken from Oct. 13 to 15, and pollsters report a margin of error of 3 percentage points.<\/p>\n

The poll also found Florida Republicans supportive of both Trump and Florida\u2019s Governor. Asked about whether GOP voters approve of the job Trump is doing, about 82% said yes while under 13% said no. Asked the same about DeSantis, 85% approve of his job performance while just over 11% do not. Nearly 82% of those polled said Florida was on the right track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Pete Polls found he would also handily beat Casey DeSantis in a head-to-head race. U.S. Rep. Byron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7380,445,4066,5187,7381,202,204,203,7382,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-6905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-2026-governors-race","tag-byron-donalds","tag-casey-desantis","tag-jay-collins","tag-paul-renner","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-pete-polls","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}