According to the public opinion poll results of Reuters/Ipsos published on December 11, Mr. Donald Trump still maintains his dominant position in the 2024 Republican presidential election, attracting the support of more than half of the voters of this party.
The poll showed that 61% of Republicans surveyed said they would vote for the former US president in the statewide primary race to select a challenger for Democratic President Joe Biden.
So far, Donald Trump seems to have no opponents. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley each received 11% support from Republicans.
Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy is at 5%, while former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has 2 and 8% of voters saying they have not yet decided.
The first votes of the 2024 US presidential election will be cast at a closed-door Republican meeting in Iowa on January 15, 2024.
The poll shows that very few Republican voters are affected by the series of federal and state criminal charges that former President Donald Trump faces.
Less than a quarter of Republican respondents believe Trump's allegations of inciting election fraud or luring supporters to attack the Capitol on January 6, 2021 - two of the main allegations against the former president in the upcoming federal criminal case.
There are also few signs that Republicans who opposed Trump have turned to support his opponent, the poll said. Ms. Haley's position has improved little since September, when the Reuters/Ipsos poll showed her in fourth place at a rate of 4%.
But Ms. Haley and other candidates fell well behind Mr. Trump - when the former president received 51% of Republicans in that poll.
The online poll with 1,689 Republican voters was conducted from December 5-11, 2023, with a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
