I don't doubt it, but polls 18 months before an election are generally worthless, and DeSantis has not seen a full assault by the deep state/media industrial complex.
The media loved Trump until he ran against Hillary, and even worse, won.
I will crawl over broken glass to vote for (almost) any Republican against any Democrat in 2024. I want a Republican to win, but I'm not sure either can overcome the margin of enhanced Democrat vote fraud as things stand now.
(I certainly think that things can get bad enough to overcome the margin of Democrat vote fraud before November 2024, but we're not there, yet.)
You have a much better opinions of polls than I do.