Gov. Ron DeSantis spent much of this week in the Golden State, but he’s not bringing home any gold medals from California Republicans when it comes to his presidential prospects.

A survey from Emerson College shows DeSantis with 9% support, putting him behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 10% and Vice President JD Vance’s 40%.

Meanwhile, 16% of California Republicans are undecided.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio , with 4% support, is the only other Florida man to feature in these numbers.

Vance has dominated virtually all polls of the still embryonic field of potential candidates to succeed President Donald Trump , so there’s no anomaly here in what would be a winner-take-all race for 169 delegates.

For his part, DeSantis has courted controversy among Californians for

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