Neither Biden nor Trump is widely liked by people outside their parties. (file)
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Donald Trump dominates the US Republican presidential nomination race with 47% support within his party, more than 19% for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The seven-day poll completed on Monday showed Trump, who was president from 2017 to 2021, moving ahead of a June Reuters/Ipsos poll when he was the choice of 43% of Republicans.
The rest of the Republican field is well behind the two leading contenders, with former biotechnology executive Vivek Ramaswamy receiving 9% support in the poll, followed by former Vice President Mike Pence at 7%.
Ramaswamy, who had only 3% support in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in June, is investing a considerable amount of his own money to promote his candidature. On Saturday, he revealed that he has loaned nearly $15 million to his campaign.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, which conducted an online survey of 4,414 adults nationwide, showed that in the November 2024 general election, Trump should face Democratic US President Joe Biden, who is seeking reelection and is expected to win his party’s nomination. is not expected to face serious competition.
Biden leads Trump 37% to 35% in the hypothetical matchup, with the remaining 28% saying they weren’t sure who to choose or would vote for someone else or none at all.
Neither Biden nor Trump is widely liked by people outside their parties. Only 31% of independents had a favorable opinion of Trump and 32% thought the same of Biden.
At 80, Biden is the oldest US president to ever sit in the White House, and 63% of Democrats polled agreed with the statement that he was too old to serve in government. Thirty-seven percent disagreed.
Still, Biden is even more ahead of Trump in the Republican field in the Democratic contest, with 15% support for anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., compared to 63% support for Democrats.
The credibility intervals in the survey results, a measure of accuracy, were about 2 percentage points in either direction.
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