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%.
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Of course DeSantis can’t be elected.
I have never suggested he had a shadow of a chance to become President.
Printing presses working over time to manufacture prefilled out ballots in China!
Emperor For Life, Xi Jinping must keep Biden in office - as he is not only good for Chinese business and US land acquisition, but he is sure to fold, if Xi directs the PLA to take Taiwan.
Actually, it's the power of the factories not coming back, the wall not being built, and the swamp not being drained.
I know lots of Trump Democrats. Just because they didn't go to Brown doesn't make them stupid.
One thing they hate is being conned. Trump is never getting them back. His share of the white male vote decreased in 2020.
Fool me once, shame on you...
No republican wins in 2024 unless the republicans take an interest in how the democrats are winning elections and—further—devise ways to counteract democrat operatives and operations
In a fair and honest election.
Yes.
The democrats will not allow it.
I truly want to believe this. But the D vote is going to be really, really big -— especially IF they keep seeing reports that Trump has a BIG lead among actually alive American citizen voters. The D’s are probably printing the ballots already and getting their ballot mules and hearses fine tuned to increase this voter turnout bigger than anyone would believe -— except, of course, anyone in the swamp or in the news media. The one and only answer is turnout, TuRnOuT, TURNOUT!!! By “election day” we need to have 90% of our vote “in the bank” and we need to chase down every vote not cast yet until 2 days after the election -— when we can suddenly find boxes of votes that somehow didn’t get counted yet. This isn’t just about winning this time -— it’s about good/evil, right/wrong, freedom/tyranny . . .
I still worry about the Rats cheating someway somehow.
It’s becoming obvious the persecutions of Trump are being brilliantly orchestrated by big money Republican donors...
What other reason could there be? With every persecution Trump rises in strength.
Duh...
I think you might see Ramaswamy as VP.
Indians are a quickly rising population and Ramaswamy vs. Kamala might be a bloodletting.
MTG gets it and she has more balls and back-bone than most of the men in the GOP put together.
We’ve been here before, unfortunately. “Red Wave”…swallowed up by media propagandizing and industrial-scale vote fraud. I want this “Landslide!” to come to fruition, but I don’t see nearly enough being done to expose and eliminate the fraud.
He's pondering all those funny-looking symbols on senate office documents
“whether the malicious prosecutions of Trump are to stop him from being elected, or simply because they hate him and anyone like him.”
why not both ...
“Just wait til the economy tanks like it will in the latter half of this year.”
the tea leaves sure seem to be indicting that’s a strong possibility ...
They will never let him win
Not just about the primaries.
“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.”
Without real election reform there is NO WAY the left allows DJT to win 2024 and IF by chance he should, there will be riots that will make the last round of mostly peaceful demonstrations look like picnics.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, sure, nod nod, wink wink, dems cheating machine will take care of that.
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