{"id":80633,"date":"2025-12-12T08:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/80633\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:38:27","slug":"d-c-pollster-tests-messaging-for-jacksonville-mayor-donna-deegan-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/80633\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. pollster tests messaging for Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new poll reveals what messaging could be used as Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan<\/a> gets ready to run for four more years in office.<\/p>\n

But the pollster purports to be far away from Duval.<\/p>\n

JacksonvilleStudies.com<\/a> lists its address at a strip mall with a UPS store in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of northwest Washington, D.C., just blocks from Malcolm X Park.<\/p>\n

Its phone number isn\u2019t accepting inbound calls, and Deegan herself isn\u2019t talking about the survey as of Thursday morning. So we don\u2019t know if her \u201cDuval for All<\/a>\u201d political committee<\/a> is paying for the effort, or if the money is coming from elsewhere.<\/p>\n

No disclaimer language was on the text message soliciting responses or the poll itself. We called \u201cJohn,\u201d whose phone in Astor, Florida, sent out the text message. But he didn\u2019t answer and we were routed to what was called a \u201ccampaign voicemail.\u201d Our call hasn\u2019t been returned at this point.<\/p>\n

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The poll tests Deegan head-to-head against various potential Republican candidates, including House Speaker Pro Tempore Wyman Duggan, Duval County Elections Supervisor\u00a0Jerry Holland\u00a0and Jacksonville City Councilman\u00a0Rory Diamond<\/a>.<\/p>\n

None of them have formally declared a run, though we have seen polling conducted on Holland\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s unclear who runs against Deegan in 2027, what is clear is those candidates will have to counter various positive messages, including some auditioned in this phone poll.<\/p>\n

People responding to the poll are asked if they think the Jacksonville Journey Forward initiative is keeping them safer and improving lives, as well as whether Deegan is keeping promises, making things easier for small businesses, supporting first responders, and was using her \u201cnegotiating skills\u201d in completing negotiations with the NFL Jaguars for stadium improvements.<\/p>\n

Additionally, they are asked if they know Jacksonville has the lowest property taxes of any major city in the state, if she has improved downtown, if she has made progress on \u201caffordable housing\u201d and health insurance coverage, and if she is \u201capproachable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The poll does not ask about a hologram of Deegan at the Jacksonville International Airport, a much-criticized airport greeting device that critics say shows her ego and self-promotion, suggesting the surveyors don\u2019t believe this issue matters to voters despite Republican tubthumping.<\/p>\n

The apparently pro-Deegan poll comes after the Tyson Group\u2019s<\/a> survey earlier this year showed Jacksonville voters would prefer a generic Republican to a generic Democrat in a ballot test stripped of meaningful markers like name recognition and the power of incumbency.<\/p>\n

No serious candidate has filed to run against Deegan yet, and she has yet to open a campaign account.<\/p>\n

But this poll shows that even this sleepy campaign cycle is about to stop hitting the snooze button and get going at last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new poll reveals what messaging could be used as Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan gets ready to run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44975,5890,116,118,117,44976,34427,18571,13771],"class_list":{"0":"post-80633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-2027-election","9":"tag-donna-deegan","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","12":"tag-jacksonville-news","13":"tag-jacksonvillestudies-com","14":"tag-jerry-holland","15":"tag-rory-diamond","16":"tag-wyman-duggan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80633","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=80633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}