{"id":2020183,"date":"2023-09-02T10:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-has-46-point-lead-over-desantis-as-most-gop-voters-see-indictments-as-politically-motivated-poll\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:45:16","slug":"trump-has-46-point-lead-over-desantis-as-most-gop-voters-see-indictments-as-politically-motivated-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-has-46-point-lead-over-desantis-as-most-gop-voters-see-indictments-as-politically-motivated-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Most GOP voters view indictments as &#8216;politically motivated&#8217;; Trump leads DeSantis by 46 points."},"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\">30<\/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-has-46-point-lead-over-desantis-as-most-gop-voters-see-indictments-as-politically-motivated-poll%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=2020183&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 President Donald Trump Maintains Strong Lead in Republican\u2063 Primary<\/h2>\n<p>According to\u200b a new Wall Street Journal poll conducted by Fabrizio,\u2062 Lee, and Associates, \u2063former President Donald Trump has \u2063extended his\u2064 lead to nearly 60% of\u200d all Republican primary voters who say he is their first choice. This is despite facing four ongoing criminal prosecutions, which many voters believe have no merit.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s commanding lead of 46 points over his nearest competitor, Gov. Ron\u200b DeSantis (R-FL), who is at 13%, showcases his continued popularity within the \u2062party. While DeSantis\u200c has \u200bconsistently held onto second place\u2064 throughout the race, he\u200c is now losing support and barely maintains his position over former Republican South Carolina\u2063 Gov. Nikki Haley, who\u2063 is at 8%.<\/p>\n<h3>Strong Support for Trump, \u200bLimited Breakthrough for Other Candidates<\/h3>\n<p>None of the\u2063 other candidates have managed\u2064 to break out of the single-digits, highlighting the significant gap between Trump and the\u200d rest of the field.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, in particular, has\u2063 experienced a \u2063significant \u200cdrop in the \u200cpolls since the start of \u200cthe\u200b campaign season. In April, Trump \u2063was polling at 48%,\u200d while DeSantis, who had not yet announced his bid, was polling \u200cat 24%.<\/p>\n<h3>Favorability Ratings\u2062 and Perception of Prosecutions<\/h3>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twice-failed-candidate-beto-orourke-considering-run-for-texas-governor\/\" title=\"Twice-Failed Candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke Considering Run For Texas Governor\">favorability rating<\/a> remains high at 75%,\u2063 although it has slightly decreased since April when it stood at 78%. \u200bOn the\u200d other hand,\u2063 DeSantis\u2063 has seen a dramatic decline in his favorability rating, dropping from 84% in \u200dApril to 70% in\u2064 the most recent polling.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, \u2064DeSantis\u2063 has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-has-46-point-lead-over-desantis-as-most-gop-voters-see-indictments-as-politically-motivated-poll\/\" title=\"Poll: Most GOP voters view indictments as 'politically motivated'; Trump leads DeSantis by 46 points.\">slightly higher unfavorable \u200crating compared<\/a> to Trump, with 24% of respondents\u2063 viewing him unfavorably, while Trump&#8217;s unfavorable\u200d rating stands at 23%.<\/p>\n<p>The poll also reveals that a\u2062 majority of \u2063Republican primary voters, over\u200b 60%, believe that Trump&#8217;s \u200cprosecutions are politically motivated\u200d and \u2063without merit for each of the charges he faces.<\/p>\n<h3>Indictments and Voter Impact<\/h3>\n<p>For his \u200dprosecution in New York for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Shield Financial Records\">alleged hush money payments<\/a> \u2062to porn star Stormy Daniels, 61% of respondents believe it is politically motivated\u200d and\u200b without merit. Regarding the prosecution for classified documents,\u2063 67% share this belief.\u2064 In relation to the prosecution \u200bfor his \u2064efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his role in the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol, \u200d70% believe it is politically motivated and\u2063 without \u2063merit. Finally, for his\u200d most recent \u200cprosecution in Georgia, 71% believe it is politically motivated and without \u2062merit.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, nearly half of\u200c Republican primary voters\u200b state that these indictments actually make them \u200dmore likely to vote for Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent Wall Street Journal poll by Fabrizio, Lee, and Associates, former President Donald Trump maintains a strong lead with almost 60% of Republican primary voters supporting him as their top choice. This is despite facing four ongoing criminal prosecutions, which his supporters believe are baseless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2020184,"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-2020183","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\/2020183","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=2020183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2020184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}