Barack Obama and John McCain also trailed badly early in their presidential campaigns before going on to earn their parties’ nominations, says Jonathan Bernstein for Bloomberg Opinion.
But as DeSantis certainly knows, while slow starts in nationwide polls aren’t helpful, they can be overcome.
There was an even more spectacular rebound in that election on the Republican side. Senator John McCain, the runner-up to future President George W Bush in 2000, began the 2008 cycle as the frontrunner, but things quickly went south. By July 2007 his campaign had practically collapsed. There have been plenty of other candidates who were faring poorly in the year before the election who went on to win the nomination, or at least managed to put their early struggles behind them.
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