The former US president holds a near-30-point advantage over his nearest rival, polling data shows.
Donald Trump has established a dominant lead in the US state of Iowa over his Republican rivals for the White House, polling data has shown, as the former US president stretches his advantage over closest challenger Nikki Haley to almost 30%.
The midwestern state, which has a population of around three million people, begins the 2024 US presidential election cycle on Monday with a caucus election during which voters will select their preferred Republican candidate for president.
Since 1972, Iowa – traditionally seen as a Republican stronghold – has been the first state in the US to hold its caucus in advance of the election and its results are often interpreted as a sign of how other states might sway ahead of November’s election.
Before Iowa Republicans make their selection on Monday, Trump’s campaign will have been bolstered by the results of another poll in the state –taken by NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom– which showed that he holds a near 30-point advantage (48%) over his closest rival in a thinning field of GOP candidates.
Perhaps crucially, the poll also showed that Trump holds considerable support from Iowa’s most committed and enthusiastic Republican voters – a factor which may come into play as the state battles subzero temperatures and inclement weather.
Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the United Nations, has risen to second place in the state, the survey results show, garnering 20% of the vote – four percentage points higher than similar polling in December.
However, just 9% of Haley’s supporters responded that they were “extremely enthusiastic” supporters of her candidacy, compared to 49% of Trump’s base in the state.
“There is underlying weakness here,” J. Ann Selzer, who conducted the poll, said of a possible lack of enthusiasm among Haley’s potential voters. “If turnout is low, it seems to me that a disproportionate share of her supporters might stay at home.”
Florida governor Ron DeSantis has fallen to third place, according to the poll, dropping three points to 16%. Businessman and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy remains an outsider in the field of candidates, according to the poll, registering just 8% of support.
Trump’s 28-point lead over Haley is a four-point drop from his advantage over the second-placed candidate in December.
And all the politicised attacks on the man have no doubt only consolidated his lead….
Unfortunately.Trump is at best a well meaning halfwit.
Don’t forget he signed off on ‘operation warp speed’ which lead to the global jab mandate horror show.
Trump had his chance and seriously blew it.
Trump was an incumbent president in an American election year, with the entire planet’s political establishment and legacy media sharpening their knives at his back.
We were being told at the time that the deadliest pandemic in human history was about to sweep the world, and that all eyes would be on HIM and what his response would be. What was he supposed to do?
It makes sense that he would go “full Trump” and try to do the biggest and best operation in history. If he’d done anything else he would have been publicly crucified and had his pandemic failures used against him as justification for an election loss (instead of the blatant fraud the other side eventually had to resort to).
He’s also a 77 year old boomer, many of whom were easily duped into the pandemic and vaccine lies because they’re from a different time when you could still trust what the man on the nightly news told you (I can’t tell you how many I tried in vain to convince not to take the jabs. They thought I was nuts).
Trump made a lot of mistakes, you’re absolutely right there and I won’t argue with that. But I don’t think he was a halfwit who blew it. I think he was simply far too trusting, especially of the snakes in his cabinet, but I honestly can’t think of anyone who could’ve handled 2016-2020 any better than him.
In terms of the 2024 election, he’s leading the pack by far. Americans want justice for the theft of 2020 and the pillaging of their country over the past 4 years. They’ll put him back in the White House just out of pure spite.
The question is whether or not he’ll be “allowed” his presidency this time.
All that matters is what happens at 3am on election night, when they once again start sending everyone home and boarding up windows.
One way or another, they can’t allow Trump into office. By any means necessary: “Black swan, false flag or just straight “elimination.”