{"id":2001398,"date":"2023-08-15T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T19:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-holds-steady-lead-after-multiple-indictments-but-before-latest-one\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T19:04:25","slug":"trump-holds-steady-lead-after-multiple-indictments-but-before-latest-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-holds-steady-lead-after-multiple-indictments-but-before-latest-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump maintains lead despite previous indictments, prior to latest one."},"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\">20<\/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-holds-steady-lead-after-multiple-indictments-but-before-latest-one%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=2001398&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--><h2>Former\u200b President Donald \u200cTrump Maintains Strong Lead \u2064in GOP Primary Despite Indictment<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s commanding lead of the GOP presidential primary has \u200cnot\u200c abated \u2062in the roughly \u200btwo weeks since \u2064special counsel Jack Smith announced \u200ca four<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-holds-steady-lead-after-multiple-indictments-but-before-latest-one\/\" title=\"Trump maintains lead despite previous indictments, prior to latest one.\">-count \u2062felony indictment<\/a> \u2064against Trump over \u200chis\u2062 alleged \u2063efforts to overturn the 2020 election, \u200daccording to a survey.<\/p>\n<p>A Morning Consult\u2063 survey \u200creleased on Tuesday showed \u200dTrump\u200c at <strong>57% support<\/strong> among\u2063 Republican primary voters, a <strong>41 percentage-point gap<\/strong> \u200dover his closest rival, Gov. Ron\u200b DeSantis \u200b(R-FL), at 16%. No other candidate polled in\u200c the \u2062double digits after \u2064Trump and DeSantis, but entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, with 9% support, is in third place over \u2062former Vice President\u200b Mike Pence at 7%.<\/p>\n<h3>Donald Trump Indicted: Three Things the\u200c Georgia Indictment Reveals \u2062About Former President&#8217;s Future<\/h3>\n<p>Trump, DeSantis, and\u200d Ramaswamy \u2062were \u200dthe only three candidates to have a favorability score above 50%. In another sign of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-rivals-seize-on-early-stumbles-as-campaign-gets-underway\/\" title=\"DeSantis' opponents capitalize on initial missteps during campaign start.\">front-runner status<\/a>, <strong>76% of those surveyed view Trump favorably<\/strong> \u200ccompared\u200c with\u2063 DeSantis\u2063 at\u200b 65% \u200band\u200c Ramaswamy at \u200b55%.\u2064 Pence, who has \u200dstepped up \u2062his own attacks against Trump since Smith&#8217;s\u2063 indictment, had a 40% unfavorable score with Republicans. Although 48% of those surveyed did view\u200b Pence \u200bfavorably. The only other candidate with a higher unfavorable score than Pence is noted anti-Trump candidate Chris\u200c Christie at 47%. Only 28% view him favorably.<\/p>\n<p>The survey conducted Aug. 11-13 reflected voter&#8217;s attitudes in the \u2062wake of Smith&#8217;s federal indictment earlier \u2063this month but \u200cdid not \u200dcapture\u200d voter sentiment in the\u2063 wake of\u2064 Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis&#8217;s\u2062 sweeping 41-count indictment \u2062Monday night against Trump and 18 others for his actions in Georgia\u2064 following the 2020 cycle. Trump faces 13 indictments,\u200c including racketeering charges and solicitation\u200b of violation of oath by a public officer, among \u2063other\u200b charges.<\/p>\n<p>One worrying\u2062 point for Republicans eager \u200dto retake \u200dthe White House\u2064 next year is \u200cthat President Joe \u2063Biden leads both \u200dTrump and DeSantis in a hypothetical matchup. Voters would support Biden over Trump, 43%-41%, \u2064and Biden over DeSantis, 43%-37%, if the election were held today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE \u2063WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The results are a sign that the \u200dfive indictments Trump faces\u200b over four\u2062 criminal cases may \u200dnot hurt him in\u200b the primary but could hurt Trump in a \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/polls-finds-rising-tide-of-voters-worried-biden-lacks-fitness-to-be-president\/\" title=\"Polls show growing concern among voters about Biden's fitness for presidency.\">general election rematch<\/a> with \u2063Biden and that Attorney General Merrick Garland&#8217;s decision\u2064 to appoint\u2064 a special counsel in the Hunter\u2063 Biden \u200cinvestigation may not hurt his \u200dfather&#8217;s reelection campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Morning \u200dConsult has tracked the primary race\u200b since December of last year. This week&#8217;s survey has an\u200c unweighted margin of\u2063 error\u200d of plus or minus 1 to 2\u200c percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey by Morning Consult revealed that former President Donald Trump continues to maintain a strong lead in the GOP presidential primary, despite the four-count felony indictment announced by special counsel Jack Smith. Trump&#8217;s popularity remains at 57% even after allegations of his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}