Posted on 05/02/2023 9:06:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former President Donald Trump has strengthened his position as the GOP’s leader and is now in his best position yet to win the Republican presidential nomination and beat President Joe Biden in a grudge election next year.
New polling data shared with Secrets on Tuesday morning indicate that Trump has a 41-percentage-point lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who is expected to join the GOP race this month.
And Trump leads Biden 47%-43% in the monthly McLaughlin & Associates national survey.
“President Trump has his best poll results year to date in our poll,” John McLaughlin said.
The pollster said that Trump’s lead over DeSantis in a head-to-head vote has grown from 11 points, 51%-41% in January, to his current 67%-26% lead.
(Graphic courtesy of McLaughin & Associates) And when 15 other GOP challengers were added to the list Republican voters were asked to choose a nominee from, it was Trump out front with his first majority total, 52%, while DeSantis had 16%, former Vice President Mike Pence had 6%, and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley had 4%.
The only other Republican to show growth was Vivek Ramaswamy, who went from zero support last month to 4% in April.
McLaughlin told Secrets that the legal cases facing Trump haven’t hurt him. “Without a doubt, the Biden-Bragg indictment and other persecutions of President Trump have backfired,” he said of the hush-money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and cheered by the White House.
He also said that Trump’s support is strongest among those concerned that Biden has the nation on the wrong track.
(Graphic courtesy of McLaughlin & Associates) “So much for the 2024 reelection announcement bounce for Biden. President Trump's strength comes from the voters who know the country is on the wrong track and is getting worse. They can't replace Joe Biden soon enough with President Trump,” he said.
McLaughlin also said that Trump is doing better in states key to an electoral victory.
“In 2016 and 2020, Trump never led in the national popular vote,” he said. But, he added, “if the election were held today, Trump would beat Biden in the national popular vote, and it would be an electoral landslide for Trump.”
The survey, which was taken as Biden released his reelection campaign video, showed no new strength for the president. His 25% support from Democratic voters in a crowded primary race is exactly where it was in January.
Trump, meanwhile, has seen a gain. In January, 58% of Republican voters wanted to see him run again. In April, it had increased to 65%.
Here’s your Trump vs Brandon polling status question answered ping.
Yawn.
Where’s The Mighty Meatball?
It’s moot because the Dems will still the election. Again.
I bet some democrat suburban housewives will secretly vote for Trump based upon the economy. They may continue to espouse Trump hate when with their wine-club group, but as inflation is cutting into their European vacations and new car purchases every two years, they may secretly face reality and realize that something has to change.
18 months is an eternity in politics
Next to last....................
Ground hog day all over again? Seems like that was what a lof of folks believed last time. Have no fear. The democommies will stop at nothing, NOTHING, to keep any outsider(or pro American) from ever being in the White House again.
“…Biden has the nation on the wrong track.”
That may be the understatement of the century.
Oh good! More polls.
I’ve been trying to sort out whether the malicious prosecutions of Trump are to stop him from being elected, or simply because they hate him and anyone like him.
Sure. Whatever. The poll needs to be adjusted for democrap cheating.
It’s the only way they ever win. Lie, cheat, steal, and rely on the RINOs to make it easy.
Just wait til the economy tanks like it will in the latter half of this year.
Yes.
Send this to every dem you know....even if it IS from MTG ... (h/t exit82)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
@RepMTG
Every American should understand our situation as it stands right now.
You’ve all been trained to be loyal to political party’s just like you are loyal to a sports team, but for our country’s very own survival, you must put down your mascot and see things clearly.
We are in $31 Trillion dollars in debt bc of the politicians from both parties, who have held power for decades, and hold power right now, and these same politicians want a clean debt ceiling increase with no strings attached so they can just keep insanely spending your hard earned tax dollars until we fully collapse.
We are on the brink of nuclear world war from our involvement in the Ukraine/Russia war because of the politicians from both parties, who have held power for decades, and hold power right now, and the top guy in the “free press” got fired for talking about it because the owners of the media company support defending Ukraine’s border and talked to Ukraine’s president about it.
Our border is out of our control and invaded daily by thousands of people and deadly drugs because of the politicians from both parties, who have held power for decades, and hold power right now, but your being told by everyone that Ukraine’s border is the only border we must defend.
Big corporate banks backed by the Treasury are swallowing smaller banks in terrifying speed while these same politicians aligned with others, who have financial interests, are moving America along with the world to digital currency.
At the same time America is being converted to electric vehicles by the same politicians and their financially invested friends, not because of consumer demand or bc electric vehicle batteries are American made and good for the environment bc they’re not.
When everything is digital and electric will Americans still blindly trust those same old politicians who wave their beloved political mascot as they hold the full power to turn off your bank account and power to drive and re-charge and censor your ability to even speak about it, if you go against the current thing?
Corporate Communism is a very real threat to individual freedoms and independence and America is nearly fully controlled by it because of the same old politicians from both parties, who have held power for decades, and hold power right now.
So while they are failing America by putting you $31 Trillion in debt and now arrogantly demanding another debt ceiling increase while pretending to care about our border security while our BPA are overwhelmed with over 22,000 border apprehensions and countless gotaways in the past 3 days, and Title 42 will be lifted May 11th which will open our floodgates, they are drooling with bloodlust for their precious war against nuclear Russia in Ukraine “defending democracy” instead of responsibly brokering a peace deal between the two countries and using our military to defend our own border that is heavily controlled by the cartels.
And the President of the United States family has been involved in money laundering in exchange for influence at the highest level of our government with his son at the head of the criminal enterprise running the show while also involved in human sex trafficking, and literally everyone in Washington has known for years, but now some of us hold the proof in our hands, but the power to prosecute lies with the complicit DOJ whose alliance lies with the same old politicians from both parties, who have held power for decades, and hold power right now.
I won’t participate or go along to get along. Washington has nothing to offer me, and clearly Washington has nothing to offer the American people either.
10:38 AM · May 2, 2023
Without controls or elimination of harvesting, and tight mail in ballots the Dems will stop the clock if thier candidate is behind and miraculously come up with the votes to win.
Rino’s will not challenge or question this tactic again.
Whistling past the graveyard... again.
Write off Arizona, Nevada, Penn, Colorado and New Mexico. They’ll go blue.
Georgia, Florida and NC go red.
Virginia, Wisconsin and Michigan. Trump needs 2 of the 3. Don’t see that happening. The math simply isn’t there.
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