Posted on 09/01/2023 6:55:19 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Donald Trump not only is decisively defeating Joe Biden for President, he remains the overwhelming favorite to be the Republican nominee.
In fact, he is crushing his GOP competition.
Among Republican primary voters, Donald Trump leads the field of 13 candidates with a 51% majority.
Vivek Ramaswamy has moved into second with 13%; DeSantis has collapsed to 9%; Pence 4%, Scott 4%, Christie 4%, Haley 3%, all others received less.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., had long been viewed as Trump’s primary competitor. But the data shows he offers no real competition today.
One on one between Trump and Desantis what was once a 52% to 41% back in January, is now a 72% to 28% blowout for Trump over DeSantis. That’s a forty-four point lead.
Our poll was completed after the announcement of the Fulton County indictment of President Trump and right before the Republican debate.
This national poll of 1,000 likely voters (+/-3.1% at the 95% confidence interval), was completed between August 15th and 23rd.
Since the Republican candidate debate in Milwaukee polls show it changed nothing for Donald Trump.
Ironically, it exposed the RNC and establishment D.C. Republicans as oblivious to the existential threat of President Biden corrupting our justice system by indicting the leading Republican in the country.
Instead of standing by President Trump, or even sending Republican Party lawyers to defend their party’s last President in court from blatant Biden corruption, the RNC seemed to be at best indifferent, or worse enabling Biden’s re-election over President Trump.
At the same time the piling on of Biden indictments against Donald Trump appear to be energizing and solidifying his support among the voters.
The bottom line: Donald Trump in his singular defiance is winning.
See:
McLaughlin Poll: Majority Say Biden Targeting Trump, Politics Behind Indictments
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
M&A POLL: National Monthly – August 2023 | McLaughlin & Associates (mclaughlinonline.com)
As a reminder to folks, the Constitution says that the President and Vice President cannot both be from the same state, so DeSantis is not eligible to be Trump’s VP.
Place your bets: who is going to be first to suspend his campaign? I’m tired of writing “single digit midgets” and want to move to “the seven dwarfs”.
Actions speak louder than words, and Trump’s actions as President cannot be matched by anyone on either debate stage.
That’s not exactly correct.
The President and Vice President can be from the same state.
The restriction is actually on the electoral college delegates. If Trump was to run with DeSantis then Florida electoral college delegates would not be able to vote for both Trump for President and DeSantis for Vice President.
Most likely they would vote for Trump for President and either not vote or cast a vote for some third party (not Harris) for Vice President. It would mean that there would be a possibility of having a situation where Trump won the Presidency but DeSantis did not win the Vice Presidency.
It seems odd, but technically the electoral college delegates vote for President and Vice President separately, not as a single ticket.
With that said, this amounts to little more than a thought exercise. There is no way in hell that Trump would ever choose DeSantis to be his running mate.
with 72% of the vote, trump beats all competitors... combined.
not just desantis.
“With that said, this amounts to little more than a thought exercise. There is no way in hell that Trump would ever choose DeSantis to be his running mate.”
Absolutely, DeSantis should have NEVER listened to his wife...now he’s stuck with having to hope that Trump is somehow ‘eliminated’ from running.
Not the first time listening to a spouse has cost an change to be president. Colin Powell had a good chance in the nineties, maybe 2000 if he had run, but his wife was against it. I wasn’t a fan but it might’ve been interesting if he had been the first black male potus.
DeSantis is obedient to his wife’s wishes and his sugar daddy’s and the Bush cabal.
No poll counts at this stage of the game. They are just props that can be used to tell any story. Lots going to happen between Now and the Conventions.
Boy, Colin Powell was something. Keeps the country in suspense for months (maybe years) about political ambitions, comes out as a Republican, and then never says anything good about Republicans - instead he’s a ‘Concern Troll’ (as we call them on the Internet), or ‘Seminar Candidate’ (to paraphrase Rush’s term of ‘Seminar Caller’)...and he spends all his time saying stuff like: “The Republican Party is good, but a bit ‘rough around the edges’” and like the Ukraine War supporters of today - he never criticized the Democrats, in any way. Glad he never ran.
If ya wanna know the truth, Trump IS the third party. The old GOP are are dying in the quicksand of MAGA.
Thank you, I sit corrected for not knowing the nuance you pointed out, but upon a fresh reading of the Constitution you are of course correct that only the Florida delegation would be affected. I remember a big deal when Dubya selected Cheney and Cheney had to move from Texas to Montana to circumvent this electoral college clause.
I guess I was left with the impression that none of the electors could "chuse" (sic) two people from the same state, but the actual wording is the electors must select two people, one of which is not from their state.
From your keyboard to God's ears! 🤞
I find it interesting that there are these word little quirks about how the system really works. Or at least how it is written to work. There are a lot of conventions that get applied via tradition that aren’t mandated by law. Like the whole running mates issue.
I wasn’t posting it to say “you are wrong” or anything like that. For all practical purposes what you are saying is correct - Trump won’t choose (chuse?) DeSantis. I just find the weird little details of these things interesting.
“ The old GOP are are dying in the quicksand of MAGA.”
The GOP is the deep state.
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