Posted on 03/01/2023 9:40:36 AM PST by conservative98
President Donald Trump holds gargantuan leads over his Republican rivals in a new poll, beating Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) by 30 points in a full field, and crushing former South Carolina Governor and Trump UN Ambassador Nikki Haley by 61 points in another matchup.
It was not long ago that many analysts were writing political obituaries for Trump in the wake of a chaotic Speaker of the House election and post-midterm soul-searching. Since then, DeSantis has soft-launched his presidential campaign and Haley officially launched hers.
But those developments have not only failed to make a dent in Trump, recent polls show he stands to steamroll the Republican field — none more so than a new Emerson College poll that shows Trump almost doubling DeSantis:
In the 2024 Republican Primary, President Donald Trump continues to hold 55% of the vote. This number reflects his standing in the January Emerson poll, as well as the June 2022 Emerson poll. A quarter of Republican primary voters (25%) support Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for the GOP nomination, a four point decrease since last month when he held 29% support. Former Vice President Mike Pence holds 8%, and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley holds 5%. Both Pence and Haley have increased their support by two percentage points since last month.
But in a field that includes only officially-declared candidates, Trump crushes Haley by even more — a whopping 61 points:
On a ballot of exclusively individuals who have announced their candidacy, 79% of respondents would support Donald Trump, 18% Nikki Haley, and 4% Vivek Ramaswamy.
“Of those who support DeSantis on the preliminary ballot, 62% support Trump on the declared ballot and 29% support Haley,” Kimball noted.
GOOD.
Polls are worthless at this point. 3 in the field?? and one not even declared.
Then why is Trump acting so cry baby scared?
The poll amounts to name recognition.
DeSantis is officially OUT of the picture on this.
Never even said he was running as long as trump is.
Do, Trump is outperforming someone who is not running for president.
Whatever.
Tell me what lead he has over vote fraud.
Polls mean nothing at this time.
I think he is acting more like a “rooster” crowing because he oin fact knows that he owns the hen house... and because the false candidates of the never trumpers... need continual humiliation and insults... to keep them IN their place, OUTSIDE the chicken farm.
President Trump has all the right enemies and the Republicants that are running are all GOPe controlled sellouts. Trump or nothing.
A semi-load of Prozac was seen backing up to Fox Snews.
I don’t think it’s name recognition. Ron has plenty of exposure. There are several reasons not the least of which is Republican voters know Trump’s second term was stolen from him. Anybody running against Trump will have a hard time getting past that.
Nikki McRomBush
The Trump alternatives should be focusing on why the Democrats need to be replaced in their messaging. It will be difficult because the media just want them to bash Trump. If they have a good bashing Biden message it will carry more weight with GOP voters.
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I agree but it is interesting that DeSantis seems to be going down in the polls even from a few months ago.
“ The poll amounts to name recognition.”
Sometimes that is very accurate. However, polls are also used by the media to push the candidate THEY want to win. I believe that to be the case here. The media hate both men but they have already assembled a strong anti Trump voting block that’s been successful as of late. With DeSantis they must start all over again.
“Polls mean nothing at this time”
Polls mean nothing EVER.......did we not learn anything from “the great red wave” the polls predicted that didn’t materialize????
damn people have short memories. SMH
DiSantis and Haley are both 1000 times better than any possible D candidate on the horizon.
However, it is still PDJT’s race to win.
…one of these other two may make a good Veep candidate
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