Posted on 06/14/2023 6:58:37 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Former President Donald Trump’s lead over the Republican primary field has grown even more in the wake of his indictment, this week’s Morning Consult survey revealed.
This week’s survey was taken June 9-11, 2023, following Trump announcing that he had been indicted as part of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into his handling of White House documents. Notably, this survey was also take after both former Vice President Mike Pence and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie jumped into the presidential ring.
Even with more official challengers joining the race, as well as an indictment, Trump has expanded his lead to 59 percent. That reflects a three-point uptick from the 56 percent he saw last week.
DeSantis, meanwhile, has experienced a three-point drop over the last week, going from 22 percent support last week to 19 percent this week. In other words, Trump has increased his overall lead from 34 percent last week to 40 percent this week.
This is particularly negative for DeSantis, given that he did not experience a significant bump in this particular survey last week, either. While critics say Trump’s lead is still smaller than the 43-point lead he held in mid-May, Morning Consult’s Eli Yokley observed that “much of that dip came before DeSantis officially began his bid,” as Breitbart News noted last week.
“Almost 1 in 5 (19%) support DeSantis, nearing an all-time low since tracking began in December,” Yokley noted this week.
No other individual listed came remotely close to Trump. Pence experienced a one-point uptick, going from seven percent support last week to eight percent this week.
Republicans defended former President Donald Trump after the Justice Department handed down news of an indictment Thursday evening. https://t.co/LlwWjxMlKa
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 10, 2023
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2024 National Republican Primary
• Trump — 59% (+40)
• DeSantis — 19%
• Pence — 8%
• T. Scott — 4%
• Haley — 3%
• Ramaswamy — 3%
• Christie — 2%
• Hutchinson — 1%Morning Consult | 3,419 RV | 06/09-11 | https://t.co/l71qO5QJDL pic.twitter.com/60vt8KdBr5
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) June 13, 2023
As has been relatively consistent with previous surveys, a plurality of DeSantis supporters still choose Trump as their second choice candidate (43 percent), and a plurality of Trump supporters choose DeSantis as their second choice candidate as well (43 percent).
The survey also found Trump tied with President Joe Biden in a head-to-head matchup with 42 percent each. DeSantis, however, trails Biden by four points.
The survey was taken June 9-11, 2023, among 3,419 potential Republican primary voters. It has a +/-2 percent margin of error.
So much for the canard by Team DeSantis and his FreeRepublic Online Influencers that DeSantis has a better chance of beating Biden than President Trump!
No other individual listed came remotely close to Trump
40% isnt remotely close. Is Christie remotely close to Desanctimonius?
BTTT
Again, I can’t see how Biden can draw more than 20%.
Welp. Let’s see if trump can do it this time. Obviously this is who we’re going to have.
Expect the attacks on Trump for the boxes case to ramp up. They need this to take him out. Their anti-American globalist agenda is despised by most people in the Republican Party.
Trump did it last time except for the fraud...
This is the basis of our form of government, to compete on the soapbox with ideas and for the populace to then decide.
People who usually sit out elections due to apathy are perking up their ears at this communism/dictatorship.
State keeps this up and even they will not have sufficient cheat margin to pull off another 3 am water main break.
Still say it’s wishful thinking.
And your man isn’t showing well enough against Biden. God forbid they put Newsom in there.
Mark my words, Trump cannot win. Doesn’t seem to matter who the candidate is, Dems hate Trump and will vote against him.
Don’t hand me the fraud - he should be popular enough to make fraud obvious. It wasn’t last time and likely won’t be again.
Fraud qas pretty obvious. A water msin break? Everyone leaves the room exceptba few “vote counters” whonproceed to pull boxes from unser the table and then scan them through multiple times. That’s pretty in your face cheating. I don’t think that was done because Trump was such a weak candidate.
I like DeSantis and like what he’s done for the state of Florida - I have family in “The Villages” who rave about DeSantis constantly. I was wavering in my support.
But now, after Trump’s indictment I am more than ever a Trump supporter.
Sometimes what you encounter in your daily life can really influence such feelings. In my industry, I am constantly surrounded by extremely far left people. Not only the customer base, but the employees of the companies that serve them. I sometimes wonder how Republicans even get 10% of the vote, because it seems like the left is such a huge monolith with great focus and discipline to winning it all.
The main purpose of the indictment is to insure the nomination of likely-loser Trump. The secondary purpose of the indictment is to try to destroy Trump, but the Presidential records act will probably protect him.
My point is Trumpers act like Trump was so popular he wins in “landslide”. A true landslide would be impossible to cover up. Trump and Biden officially were neck and neck, which is easily covered up.
Trump needs to be popular not just with Republicans. He needs to dispirit the enemy completely.
This is still not enough for that, nor does more than a year out prove anything for sure.
“And your man isn’t showing well enough against Biden.”
Still better than all the other candidates.
“I don’t think that was done because Trump was such a weak candidate.”
It was done because Trump was the first Republican since Reagan to start clawing back working class white voters in the Midwest. If they allowed that to continue (or allowed those votes to keep being counted accurately), it was the death knell for the Democrat party.
Then you need to look at polls in the “battleground” states, to get an idea of where things will stand in the Electoral College.
Can Trump flip any of those states in 2024? Key states are Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A few others may be close as well.
We can fill in much of the Electoral map right now. California will go for the Democrats. So will almost all New England states, NY, NJ, Maryland, Illinois. Republicans will carry Florida, Texas, many southern states, many great plains and Rocky Mountain states.
I have not seen any polling on the general election or state by state breakdowns.
How is that? Because Ron is even more hated by Dems and other undecideds?
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