Former President Donald Trump has expanded his lead in the Republican primary race, while President Joe Biden continues to face uncertainty among Democratic primary voters, according to the latest Fox News national survey.
Republican primary voters were read a list of 15 announced and potential candidates for the 2024 nomination. The survey, released Wednesday, finds Trump has doubled his lead since February and is up by 30 points over Ron DeSantis (54%-24%). Last month, he was up by 15 (43%-28%).
No one else hits double digits. Mike Pence comes in third with 6%, Liz Cheney and Nikki Haley receive 3% each, and Greg Abbott comes in at 2%. All others receive 1% support or less, and just 3% are unsure.
Trump made gains among almost every key demographic except for White men with a college degree, where DeSantis is up by 12 points.
Among the subgroup of voters who backed Trump in the 2020 general election, 60% support him in the GOP primary, while 25% go for DeSantis and 5% for Pence.
When asked who their second choice would be, Trump primary voters would back DeSantis, and the Florida governor’s primary voters would return the favor and go for Trump.
“The rumor that Trump is going to be indicted by the district attorney in Manhattan has helped him quite a bit among Republican primary voters,” says Republican pollster Daron Shaw who conducts Fox News surveys with Democrat Chris Anderson. “They view the case as politically motivated and it reanimates feelings that Trump is still fighting forces they see as corrupt and out of control.”
Trump faces a lawsuit in New York about potential violations of federal campaign finance laws.
On the other side of the aisle, 52% of Democratic primary voters would like to see someone other than Biden as their party’s presidential nominee, about the same as last month (53%). Some 44% want Biden to be the nominee, up from 37% in February.
That 7-point bump comes from the president solidifying support among women (+8), White voters (+9), voters age 45+ (+10), and White voters with no degree (+11).
“We haven’t seen much movement at all in attitudes towards Biden this past year, but what we have has been positive,” says Anderson. “He’s holding the line and slowly bringing more people into the fold.”
Still, Biden’s current support does not compare to what Trump received in February 2019 when 72% of GOP registered voters wanted to keep him as their nominee, or support for former President Obama in 2012 when 81% of Democratic primary voters wanted him to stay.
Biden’s job rating is underwater by 12 points among registered voters (44%-56%) and his approval among Democrats is near a record low (81% approve vs. 78% low). Moreover, 44% of those Democrats who approve of him want someone else to run (50% would keep him).
While it’s expected that Biden will run again, he has yet to announce his re-election campaign.
Despite chatter about electability, both Democratic and Republican primary voters are more concerned about their candidate’s views on the issues (73%) than if their nominee can win the general election (18%).
Conducted March 24-27, 2023, under the joint direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News Poll includes interviews with 1,007 registered voters nationwide who were randomly selected from a voter file and spoke with live interviewers on both landlines and cellphones. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points for all registered voters and plus or minus 5 points for Democratic primary voters and 4.5 points for Republican primary voters.
As long as Democrats are alive and involved in the elections, they will always be corrupted, they still have their Dominion fraudulent communist controlled voting machines, they still have three month voting, and they still have their absentee cheater ballots and early voting pre-printed fraudulent ballots & drop boxes,the only way we should elect a president is through a Civil War in this country every time a 4-year term is up, because it is Americans against communism at every election as long as Democrats are alive, because they have corrupted every election process since 1776 the Democrat Communist party is too corrupted to ever get any justice for legal voters, will we bring down their corrupted communist domestic terrorist fraudulent elected coup d’etat fascist Democrat party
Trump Made gains in every culture and every age group except for a white privileged urine socialist indoctrinated gender confused culturalist fearful soy sucking white fruit cakes who don’t own any manhood who rich mommy and daddy coddled and never made them even close to being a men, these are the rich elitist sperm samples of the spoiled antifa Dirtbag cowardly Whites that show up to march with BLM cuz they’re afraid of standing up for their own culture and getting their white privilege to ass Beat, because they stand for Nothing in life women in this culture are 80% more aggressive gutsy and have more balls than these soy sucking cowards, they do not deserve to live in America off the blood and sweat of real men, they did nothing to earn any bit of Freedom that they think they deserve, these are the gutless Cry Baby communist cowards that’ll be used for inhuman Shields during a Civil War in this country, or will be sold as prostitutes to the enemy since they don’t know what gender their woke dope culture less asses are.
Desantis reminds me off David Gore. Gore was so sure of his victory, so his wife was already the First Lady……….. De Santis plays the happy family card. His wife appears by him, in an evening dress……….Their children are also appearing on the scene, as if De Santis is already the President. I am afraid they will play the Royal Family dilemma……. Somebody must teach to this family that evening dresses are worn in the evenings, not in the daylight, when a politician is campaigning…. I find De Santis family quite rural…….. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MUST BE A SOPHISTICATED INDIVIDUAL……. BECAUSE HE IS TO BE A ROLE MODEL FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD……. WE DO NOT NEED “BLACK LIVES MATTER OBAMA” OR A MENTALLY FINISHED CRIME FAMILY BIDEN IN THE TOP JOB. F.AKE NEWS MEDIA CANNOT BRAINWASH US TO BRING THE DESTROYERS INTO THE WHITE HOUSE…… THEY WİLL ALL DISAPPEAR IN THE VORTEX SOON. THEN OUR WORLD WILL BECOME A PARADISE…
If it is a violation of Federal law, how can this ‘Boss Hogg’ charge him? It should be from Congress, not New York’s pet idiot.
I really dont like being considered a white voter with no degree.