Posted on 08/30/2023 7:50:51 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Former President 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 Friday.
The survey found that half of Republican respondents who followed the party's first debate on Wednesday were more open to DeSantis' bid — good news for a campaign banking on the event boosting his profile after a summer slide in opinion polls.
But it showed DeSantis remained stuck in distant second place with 13% of support of Republican respondents while Trump, the former president, had 52%, marginally higher than the 47% he received in a Reuters/Ipsos poll in early August.
The two-day poll gathered online responses from 1,004 U.S. adults, including 347 Republicans across the country, and had a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of about 6 percentage points in either direction for Republicans.
DeSantis and seven other Republican hopefuls took part in the Milwaukee debate while a pre-recorded Trump interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson posted simultaneously on X, formerly known as Twitter, aimed to siphon away viewers.
Trump said before the debate he saw no political benefit to taking part given his enormous lead in opinion polls, despite his indictments in four separate criminal cases. The results of the Reuters/Ipsos poll appear to have borne that out.
While DeSantis stood center stage in the debate, he was overshadowed for much of the raucous two-hour event by tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who clashed with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and other candidates.
Still, about half of Republican respondents said they were more likely to support DeSantis based on what they had heard about the debate. About 4 in 10 Republicans said they were more likely to back Ramaswamy or Haley based on the debate.
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Trump did the right thing by skipping that clown debate. The chorus demanding he participate were looking to harm him.
And there were several here that were adamant he participate and equally sure that not doing so would hurt him. Haven’t seen them posting on it since.
This is why the Media-Dem Party has now started the campaign to remove Trump from the ballot. They know that their phony LawFare is going to fail. During his interview with Trump last week Carlson pointed out an escalation in their tactics, from massive demonstrations to impeachment to more demonstrations to another impeachment to the indictments, he asked what is left, and asked Trump if he thought about the possibility of violence leading to him being killed. He forgot the removal from the ballot effort, but once that fails what’s left other than the ultimate removal?
That debate is forgotten. So are the participants. The big fat one flapping his jabberjaws is out gabbing new crap to MSM sources though.
Meatball is just in it for the campaign money
Seems obvious
Big Fani Butt trying to play Dirty Harriet with her arrest Trump Fiasco turned out to be another EXPLODING CIGAR for the RATS. Good job Fani. You’re a Fatass Loser.
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