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%.
Now you got me, how will I ever recover from this one?
Now you got me, how will I ever recover from this one?
BTW. I was ASKED a question about polling so I responded.
Very weak.
And you think the Meatball is the answer?
LOL
LOL...the one for Christie was his own vote. And they upscaled that one vote based on his size.
OMG again?
I think DeSantis is a manufactured neocon-GOPe hybrid who I would never vote for under any circumstances. I think the other team has been very clever putting him out there to chew on “social issues” that the bad guys care nothing about.
How many times do I have to say it?
“It is a fact, not seriously disputed, that the share of the white male vote (%) for Trump was lower in 2020 than in 2016.”
I haven’t heard this fact. Do you have a source?
Thanks
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/us/politics/white-men-trump.html
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-support-demographics-white-men-exit-poll-1545144?amp=1
So what’s the solution?
Pence? Haley? Christie? Asa?
It's lawfare:
"Lawfare is the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent, or to deter individual's usage of their legal rights.There is no end to irony when wiki captures a 'new' term correctly. Of course, there is no mention of 'peak lawfare' as it has been abused against President Trump, but no matter, there is your explanation.The term may refer to the use of legal systems and principles against an enemy, such as by damaging or delegitimizing them, wasting their time and money (e.g. SLAPP suits), or winning a public relations victory.
Alternatively, it may describe a tactic used by repressive regimes to label and discourage civil society or individuals from claiming their legal rights via national or international legal systems. This is especially common in situations when individuals and civil society use non-violent methods to highlight or oppose discrimination, corruption, lack of democracy, limiting freedom of speech, violations of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law." - wiki
Thanks, again. I found your links interesting.
For what it’s worth, two of the articles you listed are based on the same Edison exit polls published immediately after the election.
The third is a NY Times article spun by Maggie Haberman describing an exit polls analysis by Fabrizio, a Trump pollster.
I have a grain of salt somewhere
Hey I gave you the first three links.
Like I said, this is well known, many right wing sites have posted and discussed it.
If you think I’m wrong, do your own research and post it.
Those were three weak links
There is no solution under the current government.
“It’s moot because the Dems will still the election. Again.”
Exactly. Last fall all I heard was how hard the candidates were running and how I needed to send more and more money for their campaigns. But what I wanted to hear was what they were doing to prevent another round of stolen elections ... crickets
These polls are not going to make meatball’s sugar daddies.
Correct, because white males were under the delusion that the good economy under Trump would just keep on rolling with “middle of the road pretender” Biden, sans the mean tweets.
Goes to show you intellectual loss of white males from the attending public schools.
If you get poster Jim Noble to answer your excellent question, kindly ping me, will you please?
And the Donald will lose to Biden, AGAIN.
OK so you want the republicans to surrender the election before it takes place? That is a defeatist attitude.
You mean just like Donald lost to Hillary?
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