The new poll data shows Donald Trump lead Joe Biden In the hypothetical 2024 showdown released by the former Republican president one month after the rally in the early voting state, Iowa grew at a double-digit rate, where he tested the presidential candidacy and rated potential The election campaign laid the foundation.
Trump leads by 11 percentage points, gaining 51% support among potential voters in Iowa, and Biden gaining 40% support in the new election. Des Moines Register/Mediacom publishes a poll on Saturday.
Another 4% said they would not vote for Trump or Biden, and 5% said they were not sure which candidate they would support.
Trump’s lead over Biden seems to be mainly driven by independents, with 45% of people voting for the former Republican president and 37% for the Democratic president.
Unsurprisingly, both candidates received the majority support of their respective parties, with 95% of Democratic voters supporting Biden and 91% of Republican voters supporting Trump.
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Neither Biden nor Trump officially launched the 2024 campaign, although Trump has repeatedly teased his return to the White House since leaving office.
“Trump won Iowa convincingly in 2020, and this is reflected in these data,” said J. Ann Selzer, president of the polling firm Selzer & Co., who was between November 7 and 10. Interviewed 810 adults in Iowa over the phone. “If you only know in this poll that Trump will beat Joe Biden by 11 percentage points, you might say that everything is locked.”
The results were announced a few weeks after Trump held a rally in the state, and his first visit since losing to Biden in the 2020 presidential election in November last year attracted thousands of supporters. Although in Iowa, Trump won by 8.2% last year, keeping the state in the red by maintaining significant success in rural areas.
After the summer COVID-19 pandemic, chaotic Afghan troop withdrawals, and Democratic infighting over the president’s agenda, Biden’s approval ratings continued to decline in Iowa and most national polls. Only 33% of Iowa adults said they support Biden’s work performance in the polls, a slight increase of 2% from the same poll conducted in September, and 62% disapproved.
At the same time, Trump is now more popular in the state than during his four years in office.According to October Des Moines Register/Mediacom polls show that about 53% of voters in Iowa are in favor of the former president, and 45% of voters disagree.
Weekly newspaper Contacted representatives of Trump and the White House for comments.
