Posted on 08/28/2023 11:50:01 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
On Friday, Ipsos/Reuters released a new survey that shows leading Republican presidential contender and 45th President Donald J. Trump with a dominant lead over the Republican presidential field - growing ever larger following the first Fox News Republican debate, which he chose not to attend.
"Donald Trump leads Ron DeSantis by nearly 40 percentage points in the race for the Republican presidential nomination even after declining to debate the Florida governor and other rivals, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Friday," Reuters reports.
According to Reuters, the poll showed DeSantis with 13 percent of Republican support, which is far behind Trump's massive 52 percent, which has surged by nearly five points since the beginning of August,
DeSantis did get some good news from the survey, however. According to Reuters, nearly half of the Republican respondents say they were more likely to support Governor DeSantis (R-FL) following his performance in last Wednesday's debate. Only around 40 percent of respondents said the same thing about former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy - two of DeSantis's closest competitors. As a result, Reuters reports that "Many had not warmed to Ramaswamy and Haley enough, however, to say they were now backing their bids. Only 5% of Republicans said they outright backed Ramaswamy while only 4% supported Haley, similar shares to what they had before the debate."
All in all, these are huge numbers that show the Republican presidential nomination is still Trump's to lose. After all, even with recent indictments, Trump has managed to be a unifying figure for Republicans, and voters are rallying around the 45th president in record numbers. As such, Trump is in as strong of a position with Republican voters as ever. Trump is still the decisive leader in the Republican field, and he and his campaign show no signs of slipping up. The MAGA movement is thriving, and Republican voters continue to appreciate Trump's America First vision for the nation at large. If other Republicans want to bridge the gap between them and Trump, they will need to change their strategy big league.
More impressively, Trump remains a potent force to win the presidency in 2024. The Real Clear Politics polling average has Biden and Trump neck and neck in most surveys. As such, it stands to reason that the radical, far-left Democrats would use any means necessary to gain a much-needed political advantage -- including indicting their most likely political opponent.
We hope and pray that Americans of all stripes rally behind conservative principles in 2024, as the American people reject the radical ideology of the Democratic Party.
Thus the useless GOPe leadership is being cast out of the party.
Polling Indicates Skipping the Debate Appears to Have Hurt, Not Helped, Donald Trump - Joe Cunningham
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/08/28/polling-indicates-skipping-the-debate-appears-to-have-hurt-not-help-donald-trump-n2163129
You know the writer is a liar because how does he know if being in the debate would have helped Trump? He might have dropped even more had he participated.
Also, the drop of 54.3 to 53 percent is statistically meaningless.
The only person who would have wrote this cretinous garbage would have had to be a full blown TDS suffering from psychotic delusions.
Until we get to Iowa, polls are somewhat, although not entirely, background noise.
It’s interesting that this post says one thing, while Emerson polling says the opposite:
“Donald Trump Faces Steep Drop in Support After GOP Debate, Ron DeSantis and Chris Christie Gaining on Ex-President: New Poll”
Emerson has Trump at 50%: “Emerson noted the number was “the lowest support to date for the former President in Emerson national polls.”
I’ll never understand why a man who was perfectly positioned for 2028, with a stellar conservative record, would allow his political career to be wrecked and sullied by bucking Trump in 2024.
And people thought that Pence did well, but he lost the most support. I see Christie is locked in at 2%, can’t seem to budge, must be all the donuts weighing him down.
So, the consensus is, that Trump WON the debate last week?
And he wasn’t even there?
Talk about the rocket fuel that is consuming all the oxygen still available in the universe.
The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.[1].
Hey Democrats, socialists, RINOs and liberals in the MSM: Duh.
Trump also Sees MASSIVE Polling Boost After Trump Mugshot.
Hey Democrats, socialists, RINOs and liberals in the MSM: Duh (again). Idiots.
Trump gets more and more popular with every faked criminal charge and defamatory lie the commie/ nazi/ leftists hurl at him. It’s like they want him re-elected.
I’ll never understand why a man who was perfectly positioned for 2028, with a stellar conservative record, would allow his political career to be wrecked and sullied by bucking Trump in 2024.
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That’s easy to explain. He believes that the democrats will take down Trump before the republican convention.
Just as California governor Gavin Newsom believes that Biden will not make to the democrat convention.
The two governors. the governor of california and the governor of florida will be debating in november this year.
They are the two horses that all the insiders are betting on will go to the general.
He doesn’t think his political career is wrecked by this.
Ronald Reagan challenged President Ford in 1976, and was strongly criticized by many in the GOP at the time, for having the audacity to challenge an incumbent GOP president.
Four years later, Reagan was elected president.
Just because you lose out in the primaries for president one year, does not eliminate you for consideration in future years. History proves that out.
last time I checked 52 > 13
For those establishment supporters, feel free to insert your common core math principles showing how Trump is unelectable but someone else (favored by deepstate) and continually polling at roughly 25% of the support Trump has, is the only one electable in the general electric.
...insert fuzzy math principles here ( )
Such BS, that debate was a total joke that nobody in the real world even mentions.
People hate GOPe.
Just this morning on another site I saw an article about Trump’s ratings tanking after the debate. Can’t remember what site it was, but it was one of the Trump Indictment Porn sites for sure. The same one that is in the throes of orgasmic pleasure over Trump’s name being taken off the ballot in enough states to make it impossible for him to win.
They know that enough people realize that Smith, James, Willis, and Bragg are all Media-Dem Party apparachiks filing endless bogus charges for political reasons, that they are now pinning their hopes on keeping him off ballots.
Horses asses.
There is NO WAY, the Liberals will allow Donald Trump to win the 2024 Presidential election.
I could go on and on, with example after example, but you get the idea: Destroy, then blame Republicans & conservatives for the destruction. That's the textbook Democrat/RINO tactic.
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