Will Trump get his popularity BACK? The former president would BEAT DeSantis by more than 17 points if the Republican primary were held today, according to a new poll that still shows him a GOP favorite
- Donald Trump leads every other candidate in Wednesday’s poll by double digits
- Recent voter polls in early 2024 indicated that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could face a daunting challenge against Trump for the GOP nomination
- “We’re going to handle this the way we handle things,” Trump said this week of rumors that DeSantis is considering running for president in the upcoming cycle
A new poll shows Donald Trump topping the list of likely Republican nominees for 2024, reflecting his continued control of the GOP despite rising stars like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other new party leaders likely to challenge him for the White House.
Multiple federal investigations and convictions of his real estate empire on tax fraud charges have failed to dissuade a host of likely Republican voters from siding with Trump, according to a new Morning Consult poll released Wednesday.
Forty-eight percent of respondents said they would like the former president to lead the GOP ticket for a third time.
He beats DeSantis, who is second with 31 percent support, by a wide 17 point margin.
Donald Trump is the favorite for the Republican nomination in 2024, according to 48 percent of GOP voters who responded to a new Morning Consult poll
He beats Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, now a leading figure in the GOP, by about 17 points
It comes after multiple polls suggested DeSantis could oust Trump as the Republican favorite — though it’s far too early to tell.
Although the Florida governor has no explicit interest in running for the White House in 2024, his refusal to rule out a potential key challenge for Trump has infuriated the former president.
In a podcast appearance on the right-wing show The Water Cooler earlier this week, Trump dismissed DeSantis as a legitimate contender and credited his narrow 2018 win for the Tallahassee mansion — a race Trump supported.
“Now I’m hearing that he might want to compete against me,” the ex-president said on the show. “So we’re going to handle this the way I handle things.”
As with most similar polls, Trump and DeSantis are the top two favorites at this point in the election cycle. No other candidate manages to crack 10 percent.
Trump’s former Vice President Mike Pence is in third place with 8 percent of the hypothetical vote.
No other candidate besides Trump or DeSantis manages to crack even 10 percent of support
He is followed by former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney with three percent and then Texas Senator Ted Cruz along with former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley – each with two points.
But among the crowd of potential candidates, Trump stands alone as the only one who has officially declared that he’s running at all.
In a lavish ceremony in the ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Nov. 15, Trump announced he would run for a third shot in the White House.
But the campaign got off to a slow start, with relatively little fanfare compared to the fanfare he garnered as an underdog candidate in 2016 and his bombastic plea for re-election from the White House bullying booth in 2020.
He’s finally holding his first official campaign event for 2024 later this month, more than two months after filing the paperwork.
The event will be held in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2024, according to Trump. Campaign.
According to the press release, he will be there on January 28 to introduce his leadership team from South Carolina.
He will be joined by Republican South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster and his senior Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch Trump ally in Congress.
A conspicuously absent name was South Carolina’s other senator, Republican Tim Scott, who has generated his own 2024 hype.
But if Wednesday’s poll is any indication, he could be left behind. In 2024, Scott was the top choice for just 1 percent of pollsters.
The state is a notable choice for Trump’s first official appearance in the 2024 campaign. It is now the first state in the 2024 Democratic primary cycle after the national party moved to overhaul its races.