If the polling is any guide, there are not many cracks showing in the wall of support Donald Trump has built.
Though a Fox News poll of more than 1,000 registered voters released Wednesday evening shows support for the 45th President down 3 points in the last month, polling averages show the former commander-in-chief continues to maintain a nearly 40-point lead over the next conservative contender and majority support among right-leaning voters.
“President Donald Trump continues to dominate in polling of Republican primary voters,” his campaign said in a Thursday statement. “The only real race going on right now in the Republican primary is that for second place.”
In second place, both according to the recent FOX poll and polling averages is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The former Navy officer seemed to be closing the gap in the race going into winter and spring — even topping Trump by 2 points in a March CNN survey — until his numbers fell from the mid-thirties into the teens.
Businessman and political newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy, after spending the last several months crisscrossing the country in his tour bus and making every requisite pre-presidential pit stop available, has shoe-leathered his way into a third place at 6.7%, and that’s despite not appearing in a poll before March of this year.
Trump, who has been indicted in four jurisdictions on dozens of felony charges, including that he allegedly conspired to subvert the will of the voters after he lost the 2020 election, has only gained support among his party since the first indictment was handed down.
“President Trump continues to be the best-positioned Republican to beat Joe Biden in the 2024 election,” his campaign said.
President Biden, according to the same Fox poll, is a shoe-in for his party’s nomination despite a pair of other Democrats vying for the nod. The 80-year-old incumbent president maintains a 0.4% lead over his 77-year-old Republican rival from 2020, according to polling averages, and Fox’s survey shows Biden beating Trump by 3% in the general election.