TRUMP HOLDS HIS BIGGEST LEAD YET IN THE PRIMARY
In the past few weeks, Donald Trump’s support among Republicans has not only grown, but it has also shot up to its highest level against his main opponents.
A new poll of 728 registered voters by Quinnipiac University found that the 45th president now has a 50-point lead over his closest primary opponent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. This is a five-point change from August.
Trump got the support of 62 percent of registered Republican voters, while DeSantis only got 12 percent, which is a drop of six points from last month.
The national poll, which was done from September 7–11, found that investor Vivek Ramaswamy came in third with six percent of the vote. This is an increase of one point since August, when his performance in a debate was praised.
Impressively, Trump’s latest poll numbers show that he will win the Republican vote for president in 2024 by more points than any other non-incumbent president since George H.W. Bush, who was the vice president at the time and was running for president.
He is on track to do better than his nearly 20-point win in 2016, as well as the winners in 2012, 2008, 2000, and 1996, Mitt Romney, John McCain, George W. Bush, and Bob Dole.
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The Real Clear Politics average shows that Trump is ahead by almost 43 points for the GOP nod as of Wednesday.
The Quinnipiac poll showed that if Trump and Joe Biden ran against each other, the race would be a tie.
The poll found that 47 percent of people liked Biden and 46 percent liked Trump. But when asked which of the two candidates would do “a better job responding to a national crisis,” 51 percent said Trump and 44 percent said Biden.
Half of the people polled also said they thought Vice President Joe Biden was involved in his son Hunter Biden’s business while he was in office.
But people don’t seem to be totally sure that Trump is guilty of all the crimes he is said to have done.
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68 percent of Republicans who backed Trump said they would vote for the 45th president no matter what.
In August, Trump was charged twice: once in federal court by Special Counsel Jack Smith for allegedly interfering with the approval of the 2020 election results, and again in Georgia for trying to question the state’s results.