Posted on 05/02/2023 9:06:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former President Donald Trump has strengthened his position as the GOP’s leader and is now in his best position yet to win the Republican presidential nomination and beat President Joe Biden in a grudge election next year.
New polling data shared with Secrets on Tuesday morning indicate that Trump has a 41-percentage-point lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who is expected to join the GOP race this month.
And Trump leads Biden 47%-43% in the monthly McLaughlin & Associates national survey.
“President Trump has his best poll results year to date in our poll,” John McLaughlin said.
The pollster said that Trump’s lead over DeSantis in a head-to-head vote has grown from 11 points, 51%-41% in January, to his current 67%-26% lead.
(Graphic courtesy of McLaughin & Associates) And when 15 other GOP challengers were added to the list Republican voters were asked to choose a nominee from, it was Trump out front with his first majority total, 52%, while DeSantis had 16%, former Vice President Mike Pence had 6%, and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley had 4%.
The only other Republican to show growth was Vivek Ramaswamy, who went from zero support last month to 4% in April.
McLaughlin told Secrets that the legal cases facing Trump haven’t hurt him. “Without a doubt, the Biden-Bragg indictment and other persecutions of President Trump have backfired,” he said of the hush-money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and cheered by the White House.
He also said that Trump’s support is strongest among those concerned that Biden has the nation on the wrong track.
(Graphic courtesy of McLaughlin & Associates) “So much for the 2024 reelection announcement bounce for Biden. President Trump's strength comes from the voters who know the country is on the wrong track and is getting worse. They can't replace Joe Biden soon enough with President Trump,” he said.
McLaughlin also said that Trump is doing better in states key to an electoral victory.
“In 2016 and 2020, Trump never led in the national popular vote,” he said. But, he added, “if the election were held today, Trump would beat Biden in the national popular vote, and it would be an electoral landslide for Trump.”
The survey, which was taken as Biden released his reelection campaign video, showed no new strength for the president. His 25% support from Democratic voters in a crowded primary race is exactly where it was in January.
Trump, meanwhile, has seen a gain. In January, 58% of Republican voters wanted to see him run again. In April, it had increased to 65%.
Trump will lose in 2024 for exactly the same reasons he “lost” in 2020.
The future of AZ is as bleak as it gets.
No more waiting until election day to vote! Vote early.
But this advice might not work either.
Both for sure
Kemp and Raffensperger will have to get their Ruby Freeman election fraud express fired up for double duty!
Now, if we could only get another pandemic ushered in to keep the mail in ballots rolling...
Far too many people walking the streets today that should have been hung by their necks until they be dead in 2020. They are everywhere.
No landslide, the Dems will turn out in droves and Trump will falter once again.
“ Corporate Communism is a very real threat to individual freedoms and independence…”
It’s called fascism. We should get to get to it know it well, it’s America’s current form of government.
47/43 isn’t enough to overcome the Democrats’ cheating and the Republicans’ indifference to that cheating. As long as the GOP is unwilling to confront Democrat cheating, no Republican candidate will win. (Which is what the GOPe wants anyway! They’re in it for the fundraising.)
“ There are are 50 separate votes plus that of DC that do matter. ‘
Actually, the only votes that matter are those harvested from the very large blue cities by those who really control the American political system.
Without an effective vote collection system, polls are irrelevant.
It is too early for polls to be irrelevant.
It is NEVER too early for polls to be irrelevant.........................😉🤦♀️
pubs can succeed but they have many voters who do not show up for the voting. they need to get all those votes.
they also need to prevent the dems from getting the millions of illegals coming over the border —from getting onto the voting roles. also the pubs want to prevent the dead from voting.
Clay and Buck on Rush’s old show says that Trump can’t win because he can’t get the independents to vote Republican. That’s why the losses occurred in 2020 and 2022.
Rasmussen Reports:
@Rasmussen_Poll
The Konnech Election Systems Bombshell: A Thread
Election poll forecasting is rendered useless by election fraud.
That’s why we will continue to follow & report on documented threats to fair & honest elections.
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1578483416286101504e
I will still vote for President Trump. if he is our candidate!
“I bet some democrat suburban housewives will secretly vote for Trump based upon the economy.”
Like they did in the 2022 red wave?
Interesting thought. Ramaswamy has been impressive. A debate between Ramaswamy and Kamala would be priceless.
Elephant stepping on mosquito. Even if he tries to go gentle on her, she still gets her ass stomped into the mud.
Trump has never won the popular vote - of course the popular vote is not how we pick Presidents.
He was elected in 2016 by 60,000 Democrats in three states based on building the wall, bringing the factories back, and draining the swamp.
Since he did none of those things, they abandoned him and he lost in 2020. White men were his only demographic that shrank in 2020, fool me once, shame on me….
Talking like Trump winning is inevitable is foolishness.
Bookmark FWIW.
18 months is an eternity. More than an eternity with brandon at the helm.
Recession is probably here but the signs are deepening. I hope they get downright abysmal.
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