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I don't know about that. Maybe that's what Mediaite wanted us to believe about the poll. But here is another opinion...
GOP voters apparently only want Trump as president
https://www.mic.com/p/gop-voters-apparently-only-want-trump-as-president-79276496
none of the other high profile Republicans even cracked 15%. In fact, the next most popular potential GOP candidate is former Vice President Mike Pence, a man whose obsequiousness to Trump only delivered a lynch mob and a disavowal from his former boss. According to the poll, Pence has just a 13% share of GOP voter support.
Incredibly, everyone else listed in the poll scored dramatically worse than Pence. The third highest theoretical candidate, Donald Trump Jr., scored just 8%, which is better than Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who landed at 7%. From there on out it's 4% and lower for everyone from Nikki Haley, to Marco Rubio, to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. To add insult to injury, when presented with the list of potential 2024 GOP candidates, 4% of respondents said they simply wouldn't vote at all, which has to be painful for someone like Mike Pompeo, who landed at a paltry 1% of support.
(bolded for the Mike Pompeo backers on here)
If there's a grand takeaway from this poll, conducted between May 14-17 with 652 GOP respondents, it's that the Republican party is both locked into backing the former president by an overwhelming margin, and that — without Trump sucking up all the political oxygen — 2024 is wide open for anyone to seize upon. Absent Trump, there is simply no clear GOP frontrunner or figurehead.
I won’t argue your conclusion. However, there should be a big gigantic BUT at the end of it.
But, if Trump chooses to endorse and campaign for a candidate, that person will secure the nomination easily.
In fact, I would bet that a ringing endorsement by Trump of anyone in the middle tier of that list might be enough if they are MAGA and not an idiot.
The Don and Don Jr. took 58% in a liberal hackjob poll. Yeah, I would say he has a majority.