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DES MOINES, Iowa — A new poll is offering more insight into how Republican candidates are faring in Iowa with just five weeks left until the Iowa caucuses. For the first time during this campaign, support for Donald Trump jumped above 50%. The poll from the Des Moines Register, NBC News and Mediacom shows 51% of likely caucusgoers have Trump as their first choice for president. Ron DeSantis pulled out ahead of Nikki Haley with 19% support. Haley has 16%.

Former President Donald Trump claimed the straw poll at the Western Conservative Summit on Saturday barely 24-hours after his federal indictment was publicly unsealed. He surged past Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his nearest challenger for the GOP 2024 presidential nomination, by 40.3 percent to 35.8 percent, the Washington Examiner reports.

In a two-way match up, Trump received 59 percent support against DeSantis' 34 percent Former President Donald Trump continues to lead in the polls over other Republican contenders for president in 2024, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.According to a new Echelon Insights poll, in a contest against seven other GOP rivals, Trump garnered 49 percent support with DeSantis following with 19 percent support. In a two-way match-up, Trump received 59 percent support against DeSantis' 34 percent. DeSantis announced his entry into the GOP primary on Wednesday via a Twitter space.Days before his declaration, a new CNN and SSRS poll...

Donald Trump has surged to a 36.1 percent lead over Ron DeSantis as Republican voters' preferred candidate for the 2024 presidential election, according to the latest data from the political analysis website Real Clear Politics.The data shows 56 percent of Republicans have Trump as their favored candidate, well ahead of DeSantis at 19.9 percent and former Vice President Mike Pence at 5.9 percent.If Trump wins the Republican nomination, polling shows he is likely to face President Biden, who has announced he will run for reelection in 2024 for a rematch of the heated 2020 presidential contest.The latest Real Clear Politics...

Former President Donald Trump has surged to 62 percent support in April among Republican primary voters, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has crashed to 16 percent, Emerson College polling trends show. Since January, Trump has gained 20 points over DeSantis, when the former president held 55 percent of GOP support, with DeSantis at 29 percent support, a 26-point spread. In February, Trump gained four points over DeSantis for a 30-point advantage. Trump’s support remained constant with 55 percent support, while DeSantis’s dropped four points to 25 percent. In April, Trump surged 16 points from February over Desantis to a 46-point...

Former President Donald Trump is boasting his largest lead yet in the latest Morning Consult survey analyzing the potential 2024 Republican primary field. The survey, updated once weekly, found Trump’s lead jumping five percent over the last week. He now stands with 58 percent support in the potential 2024 Republican primary field, compared to the 53 percent he garnered last week.While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is maintaining his second place position, he lost support this week, moving from 24 percent support to 21 percent.In other words, Trump now leads DeSantis by 37 percent — up from 29 percent last week....

Hillary's 12 point lead shrinks down to just ONE POINT - as polls show Trump gaining steam in Florida BEFORE FBI's email reveal Hillary Clinton's double-digit lead is gone in the aftermath of the latest email news, with the former secretary of state now just 1 point ahead Donald Trump is gaining back ground thanks to the controversy, but he was already showing new life in the battleground state of Florida Last Sunday, Hillary Clinton was enjoying a 12 point advantage over Donald Trump in the ABC New/Washington Post tracking poll, but seven days later, that lead has shrunk to...