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.
Trump ‘24
DeSantis ‘28
Or better: Trump/DeSantis ‘24
Put Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham, and Nikki Haley in a room together. Then give me a gun with one bullet. I honestly don’t know which one I would shoot. They’re all equally awful, equally dishonest, and equally detestable.
I’m sticking with Donald Trump.
I have a lot of people privately tell me that the democrats WANT to run against Trump, so we should pick someone else.
Well, until we address election fraud someone else will not do.
This has to come to a head, and then we’ll know whether we have a Free Republic or not.
Trump won in 2020. He, and most importantly us where cheated. We cannot let that stand and acquiesce to a “better” Republican candidate.
There is no better, unless you mean one that gets less democrat anger and hate. Let’s not let them pick our candidate.
+1
DeSantis yes...Haley, meh, not so much.
just yesterday- a poll showed desantis winning by huge numbers-
How about this:
Put Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham, and Nikki Haley in charge of America. Then give me a gun with one bullet.
I’d shoot myself.
exactly- she is a ‘say anything to get elected wishy washy flip-floppin turncoat”
Not “Never Trumpers”. Most of us have voted for Trump twice. But he won’t get my vote in the primary. Period.
Polls right now are meaningless. Remember when Phil Graham (sp?) was going to sweep the GOP? We probably don’t even know the ISSUES yet that will decide the primary, let alone the general election.
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If true, trump wouldn’t be petrified of DeSantis. Trump has DeSantis on his mind constantly all through the day and night. That is very odd behavior to put in that much time into somebody. You’d think he’d think about his wife instead of some dude.
Only one directly contributed to the republican disaster in 2022. That person just had to yell to the country that we need a national abortion ban right before the election. Ugh.
We know Trump will win the primaries.
But like his candidates for various offices, we need to know how he does against the opposition.
Remember Dr Oz, Lake etc.
Well, after-all, Nikki is 20 years past her expiration date
I don’t think Desantis would ever accept being Trumps running mate. There is no upside in it and tons of downside.
Nah, DeSantis has blown my trust by falling in with The GOP establishment. I’ll be looking for somebody different in 2028.
>> There are several reasons not the least of which is Republican voters know Trump’s second term was stolen from him.
That, and I believe foreign policy is moving upwards in the list of voter concerns. President Trump has a stellar track record in managing our foreign policy.
You'd also wonder why Trump continues to make political enemies out of potential allies.
It's not as though we have a shortage of issues.
And, assuming a near equivalence of political objectives and political courage among the top contenders (and we have about 18 months to determine these attributes, no hurry) many Trump 2016 and 20 voters just like me will choose to nominate the candidate most likely to win and least likely to make them cringe.
That said, I'll actively support and vote (early) for the GOPer in general.
>> Polls right now are meaningless.
Unless you like the results... then they’re yuge!
I like these results. ;-)
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