Despite Indictments, Trump Leads in 2024 Presidential Election – One America News Network
OAN Brooke Mallory
Updated 4:42 PM – Tuesday, April 4, 2023
45, according to a Reuters/Ipsos survey published on Monday.th US President Donald Trump has extended his lead over his competitors in the 2024 Republican presidential race despite currently facing criminal charges in New York.
In an earlier poll conducted from March 14th,th ~March 20th44% of those who identify as Republicans said they would continue to choose Trump as their party’s presidential candidate.
Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) supports only 19% of Republican voters, down from 30% last month. Several other potential competitors also received votes in the low single digits.
The latest online survey was conducted on March 31st.st and April 3rdrd Following the announcement that Trump would be indicted for allegedly paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.
Trump is the first American president to be indicted. On Tuesday, he filed a plea of not guilty in a courtroom in Manhattan, New York.
DeSantis has faced backlash in recent weeks after his March 13th speech.th In it, he argued it was not in the interests of the United States to be “further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia.”
President Trump’s criticism of presumptive candidate DeSantis, who has not formally announced his candidacy, has also increased recently.
The belief that Trump paid porn stars and kept quiet about the incident before the 2016 election was shared by 71% of people in a recent poll, including 58% of Republicans.
Mr Trump has confirmed that Mr Daniels was paid but still maintains his innocence and denies cheating.
Nevertheless, 51% of respondents to the poll, including 80% of Republicans, believe the accusations against Trump are politically motivated. yeah.
“Confidence intervals for the survey of 706 U.S. adults, a measure of accuracy, are plus or minus 2.7 percentage points for all respondents and plus or minus 4.5 percentage points for Republicans,” Reuters said. Stated.
Trends in the 2024 Texas Republican Preliminary Survey by CWS Research, LLC show similar results regarding Trump’s lead expansion.
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