{"id":1964763,"date":"2023-07-05T16:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-in-a-much-more-dominant-position-than-in-2016-race-former-gop-presidential-campaign-strategist\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T16:11:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:11:02","slug":"trump-in-a-much-more-dominant-position-than-in-2016-race-former-gop-presidential-campaign-strategist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-in-a-much-more-dominant-position-than-in-2016-race-former-gop-presidential-campaign-strategist\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump \u2018In a Much More Dominant Position\u2019 Than in 2016 Race: Former GOP Presidential Campaign Strategist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-in-a-much-more-dominant-position-than-in-2016-race-former-gop-presidential-campaign-strategist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1964763&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0705\/89b4e89d-ff9c-4ca9-8e31-3607de7be6fe\/audio.mp3?length=4225581&#038;duration=352\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump is in a stronger position so far in the 2024 Republican presidential primary race than he was in the 2016 presidential primary cycle, according to former Republican campaign strategist Matthew Dowd.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dowd, who served as the chief strategist on George W. Bush\u2019s 2004 reelection campaign, evaluated the current Republican presidential primary field during a Tuesday panel discussion on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cLindsey Reiser Reports\u201d program. Mr. Dowd\u2019s political loyalties have shifted since serving on Mr. Bush\u2019s re-election campaign, and in 2021 he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/politics\/state\/2021\/09\/29\/matthew-dowd-tx-lt-governor-george-w-bush-strategist\/5912648001\/\">entered the race<\/a> to become the Texas lieutenant governor, running a failed campaign on the Democratic ticket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEight years ago, when Donald Trump first ran, Donald Trump was at 14 or 15 percent in the polls,\u201d Mr. Dowd said. \u201cToday he\u2019s at 50 or 60 percent in the polls. He\u2019s in a much more dominant position\u2014Donald Trump\u2014than he was in 2015 and 2016 when he still won the nomination in this process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump is the frontrunner in the RealClearPolitics Republican presidential primary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2024\/president\/us\/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html\">polling average<\/a>. With polling data across the month of June, Mr. Trump has the support of 52.4 percent of Republican primary voters across the polling average, compared to the second top Republican candidate\u2014Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2014at 21.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dowd noted Mr. DeSantis won reelection in Florida \u201coverwhelmingly,\u201d securing a 19-point margin against his Democratic opponent. Yet, Mr. Dowd said, the Republican Florida governor \u201ccan\u2019t seem to do anything when he goes out\u201d of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali, who was also on the MSNBC panel discussion, added that the growing field of Republican presidential candidates is also potentially helping Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the Trump campaign perspective frankly, is the more the merrier,\u201d Ms. Vitali said adding that \u201cthe more people who are trying to counter Trump, the more ways the non Trump vote gets split up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dowd said the Republican presidential primary is already shaping up as though Trump is the \u201cincumbent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem for Ron DeSantis, I think, and anybody else running in this race, it\u2019s really not about them, but will some external event happen? Something that was some legal cause or something else happen that gives them a window where they can actually succeed? Because without it, I don\u2019t see how they do,\u201d Mr. Dowd said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dowd\u2019s comments about an \u201cexternal event\u201d or some \u201clegal cause\u201d changing the course of the race may be in reference to the fact that Mr. Trump is facing multiple criminal indictments and investigations. Mr. Trump was indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in April on allegations he falsified his business records in order to conceal an alleged hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The former president and leading Republican candidate was indicted again in June, this time in federal court by Special Counsel Jack Smith, on allegations he improperly retained national defense documents after his presidency and obstructed government efforts to retrieve th<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump is in a stronger position so far in the 2024 Republican presidential primary race than he was in the 2016 presidential primary cycle, according to former Republican campaign strategist Matthew Dowd. Mr. Dowd, who served as the chief strategist on George W. 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