DeSantis: 'Big pool' of Trump voters an issue for GOP in midterms

Source: The Hill

12/05/25 4:39 PM ET


Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said President Trump’s voters may be an issue for the Republican Party during next year’s midterms because this “big pool” of people may not show up to vote without him on the ballot.

“I think Republicans have an issue that Donald Trump has created a big pool of voters, but some of them are unique to him, right?” DeSantis said Friday on “Fox & Friends.” “So they’ll go vote for Trump, and they’ll vote for all Republicans when Trump is on the ballot. But if he’s not on the ballot, some of them don’t vote.”

He said that this dynamic played out during every midterm election. “In an off-year midterm, the party in power’s voters tend to be more complacent,” he said. “The party out of power, they get upset, right? That’s just the nature of midterms.”

He cautioned Republicans against thinking that they would win districts that voted for Trump last year, saying these voters had come out for the president and might not for other GOP members running for office.

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