Former U.S. President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speak at midterm election rallies, in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. November 7, 2022 and Tampa, Florida, U.S., November 8, 2022 in a mix of file photos.
Gaelen Morse | Reuters
Ex-President Donald Trump would defeat Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by a large margin in a hypothetical 2024 Republican presidential primary, in accordance with a recent poll.
Trump received 55% of Republican registered voters’ support, while DeSantis, his potential rival for the White House nomination, received just 25%, the Emerson College poll found.
That survey was taken last week on the heels of Trump’s announcement that he would run for the White House in two years, and after DeSantis crushed his Democratic opponent Charlie Crist within the Florida governor’s race.
On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden’s approval rating was just 39%, while 53% disapprove of the job he’s doing, in accordance with the poll.
That’s statistically the identical result because the approval rankings seen for Biden within the prior Emerson national poll taken shortly before the November midterm elections.
And in a possible rematch of the 2020 election in 2024, Biden would defeat Trump by a margin of 45% to 41%, the survey found.
If DeSantis were the 2024 GOP nominee, he would lose to Biden by the identical margin, in accordance with the poll, which found the Democratic incumbent would garner 43% of the vote, in comparison with 39% for the governor.
When asked about their preference for his or her party’s nominee in 2024, the Democrats who responded to the poll overwhelmingly picked Biden over Vice President Kamala Harris. A complete of 42% of Democrats wanted Biden to be the nominee, in comparison with just 17% for Harris, and 12% for Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont.
Trump, whose decision to announce his latest candidacy two years before the election can have been spurred partly due to DeSantis’ growing national profile, crowed up the poll in an announcement Tuesday.
“For all RINOS [Republicans in Name Only], Never Trumpers, Radical Left Democrats and, after all, the Fake News Media, please enjoy this latest poll from highly respected Emerson College,” Trump said in an announcement Tuesday.
“I’m sure you shall be thrilled!” Trump added.
The poll noted an education divide exists amongst Republican primary voters, in accordance with Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling.
Voters with a highschool degree or less support Trump by 71%. Voters with a university degree, some college, or an associate’s degree support him by 53%.
Republican voters with a postgraduate degree support Trump the least, at 32%.
Amongst other findings, each Democratic and Republican respondents saw the economy as an important issue, followed by threats to democracy, immigration, abortion, health care and crime, respectively.
Moreover, 52% of voters imagine Congress should keep investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot by a mob of Trump supporters who disrupted the certification of the Electoral College victory by Biden, with 39% saying Congress should drop the probe.
The survey was conducted between Nov. 18 and 19 with a sample of 1,380 registered voters and a margin of error of two.5 percentage points.