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Former President Donald Trump is boasting a 45-point lead nationally, as well as double-digit leads in early states such as New Hampshire and Iowa, a string of recent surveys revealed.The most recent American Pulse survey, released Friday, mere days ahead of the first Republican primary debate, showed Trump leading the competition by 45 points, garnering 58 percent support.No other candidate came remotely close, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis followed in the lower teens with 13 percent support. Anti-woke businessman Vivek Ramaswamy placed third with seven percent support, followed by former Vice President Mike Pence, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, and...

A new poll finds Joe Biden stretching his lead over President Trump in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania as late-breaking undecided voters say they intend to back the Democratic presidential nominee. The latest survey of likely voters in the three former “blue wall” states from the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds Biden nearly doubling his lead in each state compared to last month. Crucially, Biden is above the 50 percent mark in all three states, while Trump remains mired in the low to mid-40s. In Michigan, Biden leads by 10 points, 52 to 42. Five percent of...

Ahead of a major gathering of Republican presidential hopefuls in New Hampshire later this week, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has put some distance between himself and the rest of the field, leading by 10 points against his nearest competitor in a new poll on the Granite State. Mr. Walker is the top presidential choice for 24 percent of GOP primary voters, according to the poll out Wednesday from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling. Next was Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas at 14 percent, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky at 12 percent and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 10...