Posted on 03/14/2023 11:36:55 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Looking ahead to 2024, President Donald Trump still has the power and pull to draw Americans far and wide to campaign events.
Widespread enthusiasm for the MAGA movement was demonstrated this week in the polls and at an Iowa policy meeting held in Davenport, as thousands of Americans showed up to support the “People’s President.”
President Trump spoke to supporters at the Adler Theater, delivering remarks to more than 3,500 people, while 1,200 to 1,500 more people waited outside, braving freezing Iowa temperatures.
The enthusiasm from local Iowans for President Trump’s campaign event, which was largely focused on his America First education policy platform, was electric for this early in the campaign season.
The energy that Iowans brought to Trump’s packed-out event reflects the power that the 45th president still holds among GOP voters.
For example, a recent Premise Data poll conducted between March 4-7 found that Trump garnered 52 percent of GOP support in a 2024 National Republican Primary, while his likely presidential rival, Governor Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., came in second with 26 percent of support.
Notably, Premise found that in a head-to-head battle, their survey indicated that 53 percent of Republican voters preferred Trump, while 37 percent preferred DeSantis.
More data from I&I/TIPP found that among Republicans and GOP-leaning Independents, 51 percent would support President Trump for the nomination in 2024, while 22 percent said they would support DeSantis.
Per TIPP, Trump gained one more point of support in their poll from February. Declared GOP candidate and former South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley, won 4 percent of support in the TIPP poll, while former Vice President Mike Pence scored 7 percent. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has made rumblings about potentially running for president in 2024, garnered 2 percent of support in their poll.
These polling trends show continuing momentum for President Trump.
Notably, a Harvard Caps Harris poll found that Trump had gained 5 points of support among GOP voters in February, placing him at 46 percent of support to DeSantis’s 23 percent, via RSBN.
TIPP and Premise’s data in March both demonstrated more than 50 percent of voter support for the 45th president, indicating increasing enthusiasm for Trump’s policy platform as 2024 dances on the horizon.
Only three GOP candidates have declared their candidacy so far: President Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy. Governor DeSantis has not yet announced a presidential bid.
Just not in the city counting centers.
‘Swamy is at 1% ?
Turn out means zero in 2024. Those Iowa farmers need to put to work harvesting votes.
Yap, Trump had large crowds already in Iowa. DeSantis had just a couple of hundred.
Swamy is unknown to 99% Americans. His best chance is to out-debate the candidates during presidential debates. From watching him on Fox News, this dude talks 3 times faster than other candidates, and has very high level vocabulary. I can’t wait to watch the debates, with Trump, Pence, DeSantis, Swamy, all on stage together. It’s gonna be a barrage of insults and slugfest.
Harvest votes in primaries? Even Democraps don’t bother with that. In general election, Iowa is in the bag for GOP. No need to harvest anything except corn.
The MSM will prop up Trump, make Republicans everywhere expend energy to support him, and then steal the election again for the DEMs in 2024. There is no way Trump will ever be POTUS again. The Deep State will guarantee that.
I like Ramaswamy, a lot. IMO, it’s Trump, DeSantis, Ramaswamy, and Noem. Everyone else can go home.
I am inclined to agree with you. The opposition to Trump runs very deep and is almost visceral among the establishment. I honestly question whether Trump can win anything beyond a primary. In 2020 we learned that almost every single government agency assisted the media and the Democrats to undermine Trump and prevent him from obtaining a second term. I don’t know what has changed, except perhaps the tactics.
Where in my response did I even imply DeSantis could win? My comment stands on its own. The Deep State will take out Trump before they let him be elected again.
Short of a massive black swan event Trump is the nominee… and it won’t even be close.
Those claiming otherwise are in self denial.
I agree with you. There is no way that Trump will be allowed to win. As it is, he would have an uphill climb in PA. MI. AZ., MN. And WI. It sickens me to think that we may have to suffer with more Biden.
Call it practice for the general election. Democrats certainly do it in PA.
you’re destroying desantis’s reputation...
you’re stupidity is on full display...
exactly ... it’s not like we have a deep bench or anything ... nobody for 28 ....
November’s election should be the most closely watched election process in modern times—especially in those states where the cities and counties had the most flagrant cheating in 2020. They managed to get away with it then, but now many eyes will be watching much more closely this time.
With any luck we should be able to spot and stop the next attempted steal, God willing.
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