Posted on 01/14/2024 1:27:06 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
DES MOINES, Iowa — Most likely Republican Iowa caucusgoers say they’ll vote for former President Donald Trump in the general election if he’s the GOP nominee, regardless of the candidate they’re supporting on caucus night.
That is, except supporters of former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, with nearly half of them — 43% — saying they’d vote for Democratic President Joe Biden over Trump.
These new findings from the latest NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of Iowa further illustrate the degree to which Haley is bringing in support from independents, Democrats and Republicans who have been uneasy with Trump’s takeover of the GOP.
The poll also shows three-quarters of caucusgoers believing Trump can defeat Biden despite the former president’s legal challenges. But again, a majority of Haley’s supporters think it will be nearly impossible for Trump to win.
Pollster J. Ann Selzer, who has been conducting this Iowa survey over the last three decades, said, “Haley is consolidating the anti-Trump vote. She does well with the people who define themselves as anti-Trump.”
Overall, the Iowa poll finds 71% of likely GOP caucusgoers saying they’ll vote for Trump in the 2024 general election if he’s the Republican presidential nominee, versus 11% who will vote for Biden, 6% who will vote for independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and 8% for another third-party candidate. The remainder say they’re not sure or wouldn’t vote.
But among the Iowa caucusgoers who are supporting Haley as their first-choice candidate, just 23% say they’ll vote for Trump, versus 43% who say they’ll vote for Biden.
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Unfortunately, yes. And some that follow Vivek..
I appreciate thier honesty in stating how closely their values are to Biden’s.
I’m just going to laugh when Trump makes Nikki his VP and then all the “trust the plan” types start saying how she’s actually secretly on our side and it’s all a 4D chess move, or something
Look, I’m not voting for a ticket with Nikki Haley on it under any circumstances. There is nothing that can be said that will change my mind about this.
I’m just going to laugh when Trump makes Nikki his VP and then all the “trust the plan” types start saying how she’s actually secretly on our side and it’s all a 4D chess move, or something
Bookmarking.
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Which of course reveals the level of trash that’s backing Sticky Nikki!
Nikki culminates the Liz Chenney wing.
Isn’t that the truth. Wow...
Because they’re crossover democrats.
All of her “supporters” will vote for Biden over Nikki.
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So RIGHT!!!!!!!
NBC article and poll. NBC expect republicans to vote for Biden.
DeSantis Dreamers.
Clearly and unquestionably a wrench-in-the-works plant to try and defuse the Trump momentum capitalizing on the mind virus of TDS (the eighth mind virus - formerly known as the “7 deadly sins”).
AKA Operation Chaos voters. AKA leftists.
That’s ‘cause they are Dems already!
Oh my goodness! What b.s. the media promotes. These are democrats who have registered as “Republicans for a day” in order to promote Haley over Trump. They are honest (for once) in what they are doing and make no secret of it. Not a one of them would actually vote for Haley in the general election.
Any decent showing by Haley in Iowa will give the media exactly what they are looking for in a narrative to state that Haley is the moderate voter’s choice, the only one who can beat Biden, and conservatives should just accept that fact and realize that Trump cannot win. They would turn on her immediately after her receiving the nomination (which she won’t) and start publishing the dirt on her they have uncovered to date.
Haley has been pulling votes from Biden from the outset, they’ll go back to Biden.
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