No other candidate in the Republican party looks to pose a serious challenge to Donald Trump. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK – Former US president Donald Trump is dominating his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, leading his nearest challenger, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, by a landslide 37 percentage points nationally among the likely Republican primary electorate, according to the first New York Times/Siena College poll of the 2024 campaign.
Overall, Mr Trump led Mr DeSantis 54 per cent to 17 per cent. No other candidate topped 3 per cent support in the poll. Yet, even if all those candidates disappeared and Mr DeSantis got a hypothetical one-on-one race against Mr Trump, he would still lose by a 2-to-1 margin, 62 per cent to 31 per cent, the poll found.
Mr Trump and Mr DeSantis maintain strong overall favourable ratings from Republicans, 76 per cent and 66 per cent respectively. “DeSantis, I have high hopes. But as long as Trump’s there, Trump’s the man,” said Mr Daniel Brown, 58, a retired technician at a nuclear plant from Bumpass, Virginia. The truly anti-Trump faction of the Republican electorate appears to hover near 1 in 4 GOP voters, hardly enough to dethrone him.Mr Donald Trump maintains strong overall favourable ratings from Republicans, at 76 per cent. PHOTO: REUTERS
Equally problematic for Mr DeSantis is that those “woke”-focused voters still preferred Trump, 61 per cent to 36 per cent. Yet, these arguments do not appear to be working. A strong majority of Republicans surveyed, 58 per cent, said it was Mr Trump, not Mr DeSantis, who was best described by the phrase “able to beat Joe Biden.” And again, it was Mr Trump, by a lopsided margin of 67 per cent to 22 per cent, who was seen more as the one to “get things done.
But the poll showed Mr Trump lapping Mr DeSantis among likely Republican primary voters earning less than US$50,000 , at 65 per cent to 9 per cent. The fractured field appears to be preventing Mr DeSantis from consolidating the support of such voters: In the hypothetical one-on-one race, Mr DeSantis was statistically tied with Mr Trump among white college-educated voters.
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