45th President Donald Trump has overwhelming support from Republican voters when pitted up against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, according to a new poll conducted by Emerson College.
The poll found that 55% of Republicans support the former president in a hypothetical 2024 Republican primary, with Governor DeSantis coming in second place with only 25%.
Remaining potential Republican candidates failed to reach double-digit support.
“There is a stark education divide among Republican primary voters,” Spencer Kimball, Emerson College’s Polling Executive Director. “A 71% majority of voters with a high school degree or less support Trump in 2024, whereas 14% support DeSantis.”
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“A 53% majority of those with a college degree, some college, or associate’s degree, support Trump while 28% support DeSantis. By contrast, Republican voters with a postgraduate degree are most split: 32% support Trump, 29% support DeSantis, and 18% support Mike Pence for the Republican nomination,” he added.
According to Kimball, a stark age divide exists between President Trump and DeSantis supporters, with younger voters supporting the former president over the Florida firebrand by over 50 points.
“Younger voters under 50 break for Trump over DeSantis 67% to 14%,” Kimball said. “Voters between 50 and 64 break for Trump 54% to 32%, while Republicans over 65 are more split: 39% support Trump and 32% DeSantis.”
The poll comes as the two Republican figures have traded jabs at each other in the wake of the 2022 midterm election results and conversations over who will receive the Republican nomination in 2024.
President Trump officially announced his third bid for the White House earlier this month, declaring before a crowd of supporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida that “America’s comeback starts right now.”
TRUMP: "America's comeback starts right now." pic.twitter.com/sjgRSDq5SZ
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) November 16, 2022
Speculations as to who President Trump will select as his 2024 running mate took an interesting turn this week after it was revealed that billionaire rapper and fashion mogul Ye, formerly known as “Kanye West,” discussed sharing the 2024 ticket with the former president during a meeting at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Tuesday.
First time at Mar-a-Lago
Rain and traffic
Can’t believe I kept President Trump waiting
And I had on jeans Yikes
What you guys think his response was when I asked him to be my running mate in 2024?
— ye (@kanyewest) November 23, 2022
“First time at Mar-a-Lago Rain and traffic Can’t believe I kept President Trump waiting,” Ye wrote in a tweet. “And I had on jeans Yikes What you guys think his response was when I asked him to be my running mate in 2024?”
Ted Weiland
November 25, 2022 at 9:59 am
While arguably head and shoulders better than anyone else out there, Ron DeSantis can no more save America from the brink of destruction than can Donald Trump – especially if America is already in God’s sights for judgment.
“[T]hey measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.” (2 Corinthians 10:12)
How much better someone is than the rest of the pack is tragically the only measure Americans have been left with since the constitutional framers in Article 6 banned Christian tests and thereby mandatory biblical qualifications for civil leaders.
America doesn’t need “better thans,” she needs biblically qualified men of God who will exclusively govern by His moral laws, like those King Jehoshaphat appointed as judges. That not even one constitutional framer contended for Yahweh, as did King Jehoshaphat, speaks volumes about the framers’ disregard for Him and His law system:
“And he [King Jehoshaphat] set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city, and said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for Yahweh, who is with you in the judgment…. And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.” (2 Chronicles 19:5-9)
The civil leaders the Apostle Paul depicts in Romans 13:1-7 are the same caliber of men as Jehoshaphat appointed – biblically qualified men of God who are a “continual” (Verse 6) blessing to the righteous and perpetual terror to the wicked (Verses 3 & 4), righteous and wicked as can only be determined by God.
America is devoid of such men thanks to Article 6’s religious test ban.
For more, see free online book “The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government” at Bible versus Constitution dot org. Go to our Online Book page and scroll down to title.
For more regarding Article 6’s Christian test ban, see Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of free online book “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.” Click on the top entry on our Online Book page and scroll down to Chapter 9.
Daniel
November 25, 2022 at 10:03 am
Give our framers a break. They rebelled against religious persecution from the Church who was the Government. Don’t know much about history, do you?
Ted Weiland
November 25, 2022 at 10:20 am
No, I think it’s you Daniel who are confused about our nation’s history, beginning with the difference between America and the United States of America.
That’s right – America and the United States of America are NOT the same thing! Not even close.
In fact, early 1600’s Puritan America whose governments of, by, and for God were established upon the Bible’s immutable/unchanging moral law was sacrificed on the altar of the late 1700s Enlightenment United States of America whose humanistic government of, by, and for the people was established upon capricious man-made traditions (aka the biblically seditious Constitution).
The latter is also known as the Grand Experiment in Self Government. Self-government!?! Gee, what could go wrong? Everything, just open your eyes and look around you. Everything gone wrong in America nationally is the consequence of this monumental case of biblical sedition committed by the 1787 cadre of Enlightenment and Masonic theistic rationalists.
Thus, ours is not to save the United States of America but, Lord willing, to restore America.
For more regarding these two polar opposite forms of government, see Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of free online book “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective” at Bible versus Constitution dot org. Click on the top entry on our Online Book page and scroll down to to Chapter 3.
Then find out how much you really know about the Constitution as compared to the Bible. Take our 10-question Constitution Survey in the sidebar and receive a free copy of the 85-page “Primer” of “BL vs. USC.”
marlene
November 25, 2022 at 12:13 pm
Ted, you’re babbling, again. Whatever very few points you made does not negate Daniel’s reply. He’s right. You’re wrong. You keep singing that same old song. Re-writing history, indeed.
CharlieSeattle
November 25, 2022 at 12:23 pm
Damn, Ted found a site where he can’t be blocked. There goes the neighborhood.
David Hodges
November 25, 2022 at 7:21 pm
““But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”–1 Timothy 2:12.
don richards
November 25, 2022 at 8:26 pm
Trump/DeSantis would make a great ticket in 2024 and pave the way for DeSantis in 2028.
David Hodges
November 25, 2022 at 7:17 pm
Speaking of history, didn’t Colonial Americans establish government that acknowledged Biblical law as the supreme law of the land? Why do you suppose people who flee religious persecution would do that?
David Hodges
November 25, 2022 at 7:24 pm
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.”–Psalms 2:1-3.
Daniel
November 25, 2022 at 10:00 am
Well one thing is true. DeSantis accomplished what he set out to do. Trump got thrown out on his a*s. Where were all those “Trump Supporters on Jan 7th?
marlene
November 25, 2022 at 12:18 pm
In jail. All republicans got thrown out on the democrats’ and RINOS’ petard. Stick to US history. Politics is not your forte.
Timothy
November 27, 2022 at 9:04 pm
Trump was “displaced” by a communist regime stealing an election. Amerikan votes were watered down in 1965, eliminated in 2020 & 2022
marlene
November 25, 2022 at 12:03 pm
When we’ve the best, we don’t need the rest. Trump 2024
Tim
November 27, 2022 at 9:08 pm
Ron needs to stay in Florida, show the other’s how IT is done in a “free & several state”. Trump 2024, he has a great resume, rap sheet
BlackR1
November 25, 2022 at 3:29 pm
You don’t suppose Trump leads DeSantis by 30% simply because DeSantis HASN’T ANNOUNCED A PRESIDENTIAL RUN, right?
I bet Trump leads EVERYONE who hasn’t announced by at least 30%.
Milo
November 25, 2022 at 9:33 pm
Same polls that predicted a Red Wave. Ho Hum. Yawn.