Republicans More Likely to Vote for Ron DeSantis After Televised Debate: New Poll

Half of Republicans polled say they are more likely to vote for Ron DeSantis (left) after seeing him in Wednesday’s televised debate. Photo: Morry Gash/AP/NTB

Donald Trump increases his lead over the other Republicans in a new poll. Ron DeSantis in second place is still far behind after Wednesday’s debate.

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The day after ex-president Trump was arrested and released on bail in Georgia, where he is charged with attempted election fraud, 52 percent of Republicans say they prefer him as presidential candidate. In August, he was at 47 percent.

In the poll, which was carried out by Reuters and Ipsos, half of the Republicans who watched Wednesday’s televised debate with eight of the candidates say they are more positive about Ron DeSantis’ bid to be nominated. It still does not give immediate results, and the Florida governor remains at 13 percent.

The distance is thus almost 40 percentage points to Trump, who dominated the debate in Milwaukee.

Attention, but not support

DeSantis stood in the middle of the stage when the eight candidates met for the contest. Nevertheless, it was challenger Vivek Ramaswamy who stole the show much of the time, and who, among other things, clashed with former UN ambassador Nikki Haley.

While around half say they are more likely to vote for DeSantis after watching the debate, four out of ten say the same about Ramaswamy and Haley.

They receive respectively 5 and 4 percent support in the survey, while Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence is at 6 percent.

LAGGING BEHIND: Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is far behind Trump. Photo: BRIAN SNYDER / Reuters / NTB

More people want Trump than Biden

The poll was conducted on Thursday and Friday among 1,004 American adults, including 349 Democrats.

When all respondents are included, regardless of party affiliation, 38 percent say they would vote for Trump if there were an election today and it was between him and incumbent President Joe Biden.

32 percent say they will vote for Biden, while the rest say they are unsure would not vote or would vote for another candidate.

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Published: 26.08.23 at 01:12

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