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Is Trump regaining his popularity? 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 as the GOP frontrunner
- Donald Trump leads all other candidates in Wednesday’s poll by double digits
- Recent voter polls from early 2024 have suggested that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could launch a formidable challenge against Trump for the Republican nomination.
- “We’ll handle that the way we handle things,” Trump said this week of rumors that DeSantis is considering a run for president in the next cycle.
A new poll shows Donald Trump tops the list of potential Republican nominees for 2024, reflecting his enduring control of the GOP despite rising stars like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other new party leaders likely to do so. They will challenge the White House.
Multiple federal investigations and the tax fraud conviction of his real estate empire failed to deter a plurality of likely Republican voters from siding with Trump, according to a new morning consultation poll released Wednesday.
Forty-eight percent of those surveyed said they want the former president to lead the Republican ticket for the third time.
He leads DeSantis, who is the runner-up with 31 percent support, by a wide margin of 17 points.
Donald Trump is the favorite for the Republican nomination in 2024, according to 48 percent of Republican voters responding to a new Morning Consult poll.
He leads Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, now a leading figure in the Republican Party, by about 17 points.
It comes after several polls suggested DeSantis could overtake Trump as the Republican favorite, though it’s still too early to tell.
Although the Florida governor has not explicitly shared his interest in running for the White House in 2024, his refusal to rule out a possible challenge to Trump in the primary 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 challenger and took credit for his narrow 2018 victory for the Tallahassee executive mansion, a race in which he Trump endorsed.
“Now I heard that he might want to compete against me,” the former president said on the show. So we’ll handle that the way I handle things.
According to most similar polls, Trump and DeSantis are the top two favorites at this point in the election cycle. No other candidate manages to break 10 percent.
Former Trump Vice President Mike Pence is in third place with 8 percent of the hypothetical vote.
No other candidate aside from Trump or DeSantis manages to get even 10 percent support.
Following him is former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney with three percent, and then Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, along with former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who each have two points.
But among the multitude of possible candidates, Trump is the only one who has formally declared that he is running.
In a lavish ceremony in the ballroom of his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on November 15, Trump announced that he was running for a third shot at the White House.
But the campaign got off to a somewhat slow start with relatively little fanfare, compared to the stir he caused in 2016 as an outside candidate and his bombastic case for re-election from the White House pulpit in 2020.
He will finally hold his first official 2024 campaign event later this month, more than two months after submitting the paperwork to run.
The event will take place in Columbia, South Carolina, according to the Trump 2024 campaign.
He will be there Jan. 28 to introduce his South Carolina leadership team, according to the statement.
Joining him will be South Carolina’s Republican Gov. Henry McMaster and his top senator, Lindsey Graham, a staunch Trump ally in Congress.
One conspicuously absent name was that of the other senator from South Carolina, Republican Tim Scott, who has been creating his own buzz in 2024.
But if Wednesday’s poll is any indication, it may fall by the wayside. Scott was the first choice of 2024 for just one percent of those surveyed.
The state is a notable pick for Trump’s first official appearance in the 2024 election campaign. It is now the first state in the 2024 Democratic primary cycle after the national party moved to review its contests.