Florida lawmaker endorses Trump as top 2024 contender.

Rep. Matt Gaetz Endorses Trump as Strongest Candidate for 2024

Former President Donald Trump has emerged as the strongest candidate among presidential hopefuls in 2024, according to a recent poll conducted by Harvard CAPS-Harris. The poll queried 2,004 registered voters from May 17 to May 18 and found Trump defeating President Joe Biden by seven points and Vice President Kamala Harris by 11 points in two separate hypothetical scenarios.

Gaetz Endorses Trump

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) endorsed Trump as the “strongest” candidate for 2024, following the poll results. “Trump is clearly our strongest 2024 candidate—and it’s not particularly close,” Gaetz wrote on Twitter on May 19, while sharing the results of the poll.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is widely seen as Trump’s biggest challenger to secure the GOP nomination in 2024. Apart from Trump, several major Republican 2024 challengers have formally launched presidential bids, including former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, biotechnology entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, conservative radio host Larry Elder, and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.).

Trump Leads GOP Field

The poll also found Trump leading the GOP field with 58 percent of support, with DeSantis finishing second with 16 percent, followed by a three-way tie of four percent between Ramaswamy, Pence, and Haley. Trump also came out on top in one-on-one hypothetical GOP matchups against Scott (79 percent), Haley (78 percent), Pence (77 percent), and DeSantis (65 percent).

Gaetz Endorsed Trump Before

Gaetz has endorsed Trump’s reelection bid before the former president formally announced his White House bid in November last year. “Only Trump can be trusted to enact the ‘America First’ agenda he ran on in 2016. We won’t accept any imitation,” Gaetz wrote in a Daily Caller op-ed in November, days before Trump launched his 2024 bid.

“There’s so many more accomplishments left for us to achieve if we elect Donald Trump back to the White House,” Gaetz added. “America is broken under Biden. Trump alone can fix it.”

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