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.
Hmmm, DeSantis is running? It’s 2 years off.
These polls are worthless. the only thing that matters is a handful of states, and effectiveness of the urban ballot harvesting schemes in those areas (and the GOP ability in that state to match those schemes.)
DeSantis really said that? Link?
All the DeSantis RINOs have been claiming that Trump was turning off people by telling the truth about DeSantis have been disproven once again.
You’d think he’d think about his wife instead of some dude.“
What a preposterous statement in this context
I heard on TV yesterday that GOP will not win as long as they remain pro-Life
DeSantis would be slaughtered if he gets in. If doesn't want to end up like Ted Cruz, he should remain in Florida.
Spot-On!
And Biden/Harris have a 115% lead over him.
Bottom line; I’m going to vote for the GOP candidate running against the demonrat candidate in the November election. I’ll try to figure out who has the best chance of winning in the primary but in November I’m anti demonrat.
If we're willing to sacrifice Florida's electoral votes, or if DJT moves out of state.
Can't see either of those scenarios playing out.
That's the truth of it right there. Thanks for saying it.
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polls had trump winning in 2020...
Sometimes the polls are right.
desantis never announced he’s running for president...
The 2020 poll showing Trump won were right.
trump is sitting on the sidelines whining while jotato is destroying our country...
and in the process trump and you people are destroying desantis’s reputation for being a 2 time winner and doing what we floridians elected him to do...
you people are worse than looney leftists...
there’s no pleasing you hypocrites...
Not really. He’s super focused on DeSantis. Where there’s smoke…..
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