CREDIT: Kaplan Strategies
Posted on 07/20/2023 8:38:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hedge fund investor/entrepreneur and anti-ESG crusader Vivek Ramaswamy entered the top-tier of not-Trump Republican candidates when he was the choice of 12 percent of 800 likely Republican voters in a new poll—the same level of support for Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis—as both men trail President Donald Trump’s 48 percent.
The rest of the field came in as follows, when responding to the question, “If the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary were held today, for whom would you vote?” Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, 5 percent; South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former vice president Mike Pence, 5 percent; former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, 3 percent, former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, 1 percent and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, no support.
CREDIT: Kaplan Strategies
Kaplan Strategies conducted the poll with an online panel of cell phone users using web and text responses. The poll has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points from July 17 through July 18.
“President Donald Trump continues to lead the field with 48 percent, which is no surprise,” said Doug Kaplan, the founder of Kaplan Strategies, the firm that conducted the poll.
The surprise is that in the field of nine candidates we asked about, Ramaswamy has more than twice the support of six of the other hopefuls.
People talk about DeSantis fading, but he is still in the top-tier of not-Trump candidates, but now he has a peer. Really the question is, how will each camp react? I mean, will DeSantis and Ramaswamy start targeting each other?
Kaplan said the poll showed that Ramaswamy may have a higher ceiling, given that Republican voters are still not familiar with him.
DeSantis was rated Very Favorable by 23 percent and Somewhat Favorable by 36 percent, putting him at 59 percent favorable with GOP voters with only 10 percent Uncertain.
Ramaswamy came in with 17 percent Very Favorable and 39 percent Somewhat Favorable, so he was rated favorable by 56 percent of the respondents—roughly the same as DeSantis. However, 27 percent of the people we surveyed were Uncertain, which really means they just don’t know the guy. That makes it up to him or someone else to let people know who he is.
The Uncertain numbers for the other candidates tell another tale, putting their poll numbers in perspective: Burgum, 72 percent; Hutchinson, 61 percent; Scott, 38 percent, Haley, 31 percent, Christie, 22 percent and Pence, 8 percent.
Pence seems to have the lowest ceiling, with 92 percent of Republicans already making up their minds about him.
The other takeaway in the poll is the continued strength of Trump with Republican voters, despite the large field challenging him, according to Kaplan:
Forty-two percent of Republicans have a Very Favorable view of Trump with 27 percent having a Somewhat Favorable view of him—and it is no surprise at all that only 2 percent told us they were Uncertain about him. These bottom-tier candidates are really just nickel-and-diming Trump and the other two.
As time goes on, they will drop off and those voters will either go home to Trump or find a new home with Ramaswamy or DeSantis.
The poll was paid for by Kaplan Strategies.
Looks like Vivek is picking up poll points at Ronnie’s expense.
Vivek Ramaswamy publicly praised George Soros in 2021, cited Soros having soured on Xi Jinping and becoming a China hawk
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1426884152469643264
Expect to see more “research” linking Vivek to Soros.
Top Tier Trump Rival???
How do these morons come up with these headlines and stories?
And, surely, more about his relationship to Schwab and the WEF.
He reminds of the computer guy in the last Jason Bourne movie.
The people who are disqualifying Vivek for ‘ties to Soros’ in whatever form were not going to support him anyway, for other reasons. I don’t think it will make any difference to his poll numbers.
“Looks like Vivek is picking up poll points at Ronnie’s expense.”
Expected. DeSantis chose to side with the GLOBALISTS, whereas Vivek is the opposite. So no one should be surprised to see him moving into SECOND PLACE.
You are completly ignoring all the wa4ning signs on this guy, and his globalist past.
They already are. The interesting thing per a poll that came out three days ago is … if you remove Trump from running Vivek shoots to the top of the pack. It’s not even close. This tells us most potential Vivek supporters are locked into Trump and see him as their second choice.
I think most people will vote for President Trump no matter what. There Is no second choice to me.
The difference between Vivek and DeSantis on this issue is DeSantis actually has accomplishments. Vivek just talks a good game.
“You are completly ignoring all the wa4ning signs on this guy, and his globalist past.”
I didn’t say I’d vote for him - I’m just using him to show just how WEAK DeSantis has become as a candidate.
A battle of pygmies is still a battle of pygmies.
Trump seems to have reached his ceiling at 48%.
That’s because President Trump has lapoed the field 6 times over.
Yes, this is unfortunately true.
DeSantis needs to step up his game of else Trump will be the GOP nominee, where he'll get absolutely clobbered by whatever candidate has a (D) after their name.
We're going to wind up with Biden winning and President Kamala Harris replacing Thomas and Alito on the Supreme Court.
Because if you think Trump will win in '24, you need to put down the hopium.
They won’t vote for Trump if Trump is not in the race.
That’s what the second choice is for. It’s a hypothetical
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