Miami (EFE)
A Morning Consult poll shows the former president (2017-2021) with 56% of voting intention among Republican voters, while the second favorite, DeSantis, has 17%, that is, he is 40 percentage points away from Trump and registers a “historical minimum” for the pollster, which began tracking the primaries last December.
Trump Vs. Biden
The study even reflects that in the event of a heads-up against the US president, Democrat Joe Biden, DeSantis loses ground and is five points behind the current US president, who has announced that he will seek re-election.
For his part, Trump would do better if he faced Biden, against whom he would lose by one percentage point, according to the Morning Consult survey, carried out between July 7 and 9 of 3,616 potential voters in the Republican primaries. and with a margin of error between 2% and 4%.
This poll places the author and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy in third place, who brings together 8% of voting intentions and thus surpasses former Vice President Mike Pence, who achieves 7% and occupies the fourth position.
Iowa key state
The Republican Party will hold the electoral assemblies in the state of Iowa on January 15 to choose the party’s presidential candidate, an event that will begin the 2024 electoral cycle in the United States, with a view to the presidential elections on November 5 of that year.
The state of Iowa has traditionally been first on the electoral calendar, followed by New Hampshire.
The Democrats, for their part, have chosen to make South Carolina the first date in their primary election process, on February 3.