With just over one month to go before Floridians decide the fate of the sunshine state, the verdict is in on how Florida voters really feel about DeSantis sending illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard.
Per Fox News, the near majority of voters in Florida support Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to relocate illegal migrants to other states like Massachusetts and New York, according to a new poll released after Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed Florida farmers want the migrants to stay and “pick the crops.”
The Spectrum News/Sienna College poll found that 49% of likely Florida voters support sending illegal migrants to other states, while 44% do not support the action. Almost 90% of Republican and 50% of Independent voters in Florida agree that migrants should be relocated to different cities, a move that only 10% of Democrats support.
In September, DeSantis sent 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, a luxury beach town off the coast of Massachusetts. Within 48 hours the national guard was called in to remove the migrants before sending them to a nearby military base. The locals were blasted and criticized for asking them to leave so quickly especially seeing that, for years, they claimed they would do anything to welcome migrants “into their homes”.
The new poll, conducted after DeSantis sent the migrants to Massachusetts, revealed that the Republican governor is still leading Florida’s gubernatorial race against opponent Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., 49% to 41%.
The poll was conducted from Sept. 18-25, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.