Former President Donald Trump is, despite being attacked viciously by the media and judicial apparatus (or perhaps because of those attacks), managing to rack up significantly more support from the GOP primary base as his competitors fall farther behind him and show how unlikely their chances of victory are. Among those with little real hope at this point is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whose support has dropped precipitously in recent months.
The latest evidence of that comes from New Hampshire, where the former president holds a sizeable lead over all of his rivals and those following him have coalesced into a mostly hopeless blob with similar levels of support as they struggle to gain any real traction, or even lose what traction they once had.
The state is not even one of Trump’s best, as he holds only 39% of the New Hampshire electorate’s support, significantly below the 50% or more of the electorate’s support that he holds in most states across the union, much in contrast to his rivals.
In any case, polling out of New Hampshire shows that his rivals are doing quite poorly, foremost among them Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. According to that polling, Gov. DeSantis, who once was nipping at former President Trump’s heels, has plummeted in his percentage of support sine the last poll in July.
At that time, he had 23% of the New Hampshire electorate’s support, whereas now he holds only 10% support. That puts the Florida Governor about even with three other candidates. Those are tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy (13%), former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (12%) and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (11%). Even South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is at 6% support in the poll, putting him close to Governor DeSantis. Former Vice President Mike Pence holds only 2%.
Trump, for his part, has been focusing on hammering President Joe Biden and his foreign policy objectives. In a recent post on Truth Social, for instance, he said, “Crooked Joe Biden announced yesterday that he has permanently ended certain very powerful & effective (but horrible!) Weapons of Mass & Lethal Destruction, but that other countries, which have similar weapons, have not followed suit. Can you imagine doing this without a deal for others to simultaneously do the same? We no longer have that powerful bargaining chip!!! Biden is a fool who is being laughed at all over the World. He is only good at ELECTION INTERFERENCE & WEAPONIZING our ELECTIONS!”
In another post, he said, “If I would have made that speech yesterday at the United Nations, for all of the World to see, including the HORRENDOUS delivery, I would have been run out of politics! An EMBARRASSMENT to our Country.”
And, in a post on the situation in Ukraine, he said, “Our Country has spent almost 200 Billion Dollars more than the countries of Europe in fighting go Ukraine. Does anybody think this is fair and reasonable? Europe should equalize before we go forward!”
Further, he clarified his stance on abortion, writing, “I was able to do something that nobody thought was possible, end Roe v. Wade. For 52 years, people talked, spent vast amounts of money, but couldn’t get the job done. I got the job done! Thanks to the three great Supreme Court Justices I appointed, this issue has been returned to the States, where all Legal Scholars, on both sides, felt it should be. Now the Pro Life Community has TREMENDOUS NEGOTIATING POWER…Like Ronald Reagan before me, I believe in the three exceptions for Rape, Incest, and the Life of the Mother. Without the exceptions, it is very difficult to win Elections, we would probably lose the Majorities in 2024, and perhaps the Presidency itself, but you must follow your HEART! In order to win in 2024, Republicans must learn how to talk about Abortion. This issue cost us unnecessarily, but dearly, in the Midterms…We have to expose the Democrats, like Crooked Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, as being the true Radicals on the Abortion issue, in that they allow the killing of babies in the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th months, and even after birth. But it was OK to “rip the baby out of the womb” under Roe v. Wade, and destroy a living soul. Now, with Roe v. Wade no longer, the power to negotiate is with the Pro Life Movement, not the Radical Left Democrats who are so willing to destroy Life!“
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