Pak Sahafat – The results of the latest American election survey show that the FBI agents’ raid on the former president’s villa and its search has led to an increase in his popularity among Republican voters.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency’s report on Tuesday, The findings of a joint poll by Politico and Morning Consult show that if the intra-party competition to choose the Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential election were to be held these days, Trump would win 57 percent of the Republican vote. Comparison with the same survey from early summer shows a growth of 4%.
At the same time, the public favorability of Ron DeSantis, the current governor of the state of Florida, decreased from 23% to 17%, bringing Trump’s difference with this supposed Republican rival to 10%.
This poll was conducted last Wednesday (August 19) and 2 days after the raid by FBI agents. Or at that time, there was still no news about the documents seized in Mar a Lago.
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Politico poll was conducted among 2 thousand 4 candidates and its margin of error is 2%.
While de Santis is looking to participate in the gubernatorial race in the upcoming midterm elections, Trump has not yet officially volunteered to run in the 2024 election.
According to other findings of the aforementioned survey, 49% of respondents partially or strongly support the inspection of Trump’s villa, and 37% strongly or partially oppose this measure. 13% of the candidates have no opinion on this matter.
The US mid-term elections will be held on November 17 for the selection of 435 members of parliament, 35 senators, 39 governors and a large number of local and state officials across the United States.