Posted on 03/12/2020 11:14:04 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump holds strong leads over both former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in potential head-to-head matchups in Iowa, according to a Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll released Thursday.
Trump leads Biden among likely voters by a 51 percent to 41 percent margin, with 8 percent of voters saying they are undecided in the hypothetical matchup.
Trump gets the support of 53 percent of likely voters in a matchup with Sanders, who gets 41 percent support. Six percent of voters are undecided in a Trump-Sanders head-to-head.
The president is buoyed by a net-positive approval rating — 50 percent of Iowans approve of the job he’s doing, while 47 percent disapprove. Thursday’s poll marks the first time in which Trump’s approval rating has broken even in the survey.
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All perfectly set up to show polls in a few weeks with Trump’s lead narrowing or disappearing.
This is assuming Biden or Sanders will be the nominee. I suspect there are a couple of names waiting in the wings since these two are so awful that they might not get the nomination.
Donald Trump won the election in Iowa with 51.2% of the vote. Hillary Clinton received 41.7% of the vote. Trump carried Iowa by the largest margin of any Republican candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1980.
My thoughts - in a crisis, like 9/11 or WWII people want to stay with what they’ve got. So this “crisis” cuts both ways and IMHO is as likely to help Trump as hurt him. It’s the “we have nothing to fear but fear itself “ syndrome.
No. Trump actually seems to be gaining. Ras 48 today.
They are writing the headlines as we speak.
Yep. The game plan to be so obvious, yet is amazes me when people express surprise when it happens.
The media could be creating a....
rally around the President effect.
I think of myself as a ROCK solid Trump supporter. I share that position of “ROCK solid” support with many people I know. We are going to vote TRUMP if we have to crawl over a mile across broken glass. THAT describes 99% of Trump supporters.
It is beyond reason and common sense that because of the Coronavirus and the Ups and Downs of the Market that a Trump supporter would say “Well. I am now voting for a Liberal/Socialist Democrat and not Trump!”
I will be charitable and say less than 5% of possible voters are undecided.
The differences are so stark between the options there simply can’t be huge swings in voter support.
And that’s NOW! Wait until the Dover Dunce gets the nomination and the rat has to live with him.
I find it interesting that the poll is nearly identical to those 2016 election results.
Generic Ballot polls from all 4 Iowa CDs show the GOP ahead.
How sweet it would be (and perhaps necessary for the majority) to give Iowa it’s first all GOP House delegation since the 1955-56 (1947-48 for all GOP Congressional Delegation).
The GOP had all 5 House seats from 1995-1997. Jim Ross Lightfoot left his seat to run against the execrable Harkin in 1996, losing by 5% (and then lost for Governor in 1998 by less than 6%), and that allowed Leonard Boswell to win by a narrow plurality.
Rick Perry: Oops
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