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Poll: Trump Leads Vulnerable Biden by 7 in Michigan, but Trails Whitmer
Breitbart ^ | 11 Oct 2023 | NICK GILBERTSON

Posted on 10/12/2023 10:03:43 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in Michigan by seven percentage points but trails Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) in a pair of hypothetical 2024 matchups, according to a Marketing Resource Group (MRG) poll.

The poll, conducted between October 2-8, shows that 42 percent of likely voters in Michigan would back Trump or would lean toward backing Trump for president in a race versus Biden. Conversely, 35 percent would support Biden or would lean toward voting for him, putting him at a significant disadvantage in a state that was pivotal in deciding the last two presidential elections. More than one in five voters say they would vote for someone else or would lean toward another candidate.

“If the rematch takes place, it will be unique and considered like two incumbents running against each other; both have saturated name ID, records to defend having served in the same office, and voters have strong opinions one way or another about their candidate choice,” said MRG owner Jenell Leonard in a press release.

“The waning support for President Biden from his base should be concerning to his party,” he added. “It conveys they no longer have faith in their candidate; they lack the confidence that he can win re-election. This is a candidate problem, not a party problem.”

Speaking with the Detroit News, Leonard expanded on the dynamic.

“If the base doesn’t show up, they could likely see themselves in the same situation as they saw in 2016,” he said.

Michigan was one of several Rust Belt states that helped propel Trump to the White House in 2016, as he beat out twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton by more than 10,000 votes. Biden won

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: michigan; trump
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1 posted on 10/12/2023 10:03:43 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

So Whitler is going to be their candidate?

She should be in prison.


2 posted on 10/12/2023 10:08:36 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: SoConPubbie

They probably do not have to cheat as much with Whitmer as they would have to with Biden.


3 posted on 10/12/2023 10:11:16 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: fuzzylogic

Yep, I’ve long said they will put up Whitmer as the hope for the first Female President.


4 posted on 10/12/2023 10:11:32 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: fuzzylogic

Michiganders are obviously not very bright people.


5 posted on 10/12/2023 10:11:56 AM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Right Brother

People in Michigan CITIES and on their COLLEGE campuses are not very bright people...pretty much the same everywhere. :-)


6 posted on 10/12/2023 10:13:54 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: SoConPubbie

Michigan elites are now woke. All of them have drunk the cool-aid and believe in struggling against the patriarchy.


7 posted on 10/12/2023 10:16:08 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Right Brother
Michiganders are obviously not very bright people.

Much of the Michigan GOPee have always been cryptoDemocrats.

8 posted on 10/12/2023 10:16:09 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: 1Old Pro

I suspect Whitmer not even CLOSE to being ready for national politics.


9 posted on 10/12/2023 10:16:34 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: who knows what evil?

Agree 100%


10 posted on 10/12/2023 10:17:47 AM PDT by Cottonhill (Cottonhill)
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I suspect Whitmer not even CLOSE to being ready for national politics.

Good, nothing better than a full frontal flop from a Presidential candidate. We'll see, it's a long time until the Super delegates at the Summer 2024 Dem convention tell Democrats who their candidate will be w/o the input of the voters.

11 posted on 10/12/2023 10:18:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SoConPubbie

if only polling could account for democrat cheating.


12 posted on 10/12/2023 10:22:36 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: SoConPubbie

Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona....Trump is stomping Biden in swing states.


13 posted on 10/12/2023 10:47:52 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: fuzzylogic

Newsom/Whitmer is the ticket, almost for sure.


14 posted on 10/12/2023 10:49:14 AM PDT by Jim Noble (They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn)
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To: SoConPubbie

Again, PLEASE stop with the “Biden” nonsense.

He’s not going to be the candidate, if he’s even alive in a year.

How Trump or anyone else is doing against “Biden” is meaningless.


15 posted on 10/12/2023 10:51:18 AM PDT by Jim Noble (They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn)
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To: SoConPubbie

Latest Georgia poll has Trump at +9 over Brandon. Very good early news.


16 posted on 10/12/2023 11:01:40 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: SoConPubbie

whitner is a disaster as governor

like it or not, gets by on looks


17 posted on 10/12/2023 11:04:37 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Right Brother

You assume we actually voted her in - for 2020, we know there were 10’s of thousands of fraudulent voter registrations that were reported to the State police, only for them to be sent to the FBI - where nothing has been done.


18 posted on 10/12/2023 11:21:07 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: SoConPubbie
I think we should have a rule here that any article on polling between Trump and Biden should read,
Trump (who actually won in 2020) leads Biden (who cheated the 2020 election and who is not actually running in 2024) ...

19 posted on 10/12/2023 1:52:06 PM PDT by nicollo ("This is FR!")
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump has been winning head to head polling in the rust belt for about 3 months now....

The Media is FINALLY paying attention to it... clearly the reason is to get this out in the public after trying to hide/ignore it for months, to pressure Biden out and have a different nominee.


20 posted on 10/12/2023 2:05:08 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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