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Miami, Apr 10 (EFE).- Donald Trump leads Ron DeSantis by almost 15 points in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, according to a poll published this Monday, an advantage that led the former US president to say that the governor “does not It’s as popular in Florida as people thought.”
“I assume, among other things, that they (the voters) do not want their Social Security or their MediCare (public health system) cut,” Trump (2017-2021) wrote on his Truth Social network, where he collected the results of the InteractivePolls poll. for the firm Victory Insights, carried out from the 6th to the 8th of this month among a thousand Republican voters.
According to that poll, Trump has exactly 46.6% of voting intention, while DeSantis reaches 31.8%, with a margin of error of 3.1%.
Ron DeSantis, re-elected governor of Florida by a large majority in 2022, has not yet revealed whether he will run for the Republican nomination, but there are many signs that he is already on the campaign trail, starting with the attacks he regularly receives from his former political godfather Trump, who affirms that without his support he would not even have reached the governorship in 2018.
According to the poll, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy would get 3.5% of the support of the Republican electorate, while former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley would receive 3.2%.
The Victory Insights poll notes that “Trump retakes Florida again and overtakes DeSantis for the 2024 Republican nomination.”
Trump’s numbers show a 10% increase from another poll commissioned by Victory Insights last November, while DeSantis is 15 percentage points below.
According to the poll, “most of the Republicans interviewed (close to 90%) believe that the criminal indictment against Trump is politically motivated.”
Trump filed an appeal on Monday to prevent former Vice President Mike Pence from testifying before a grand jury investigating the assault on the Capitol.
The former president’s legal team is appealing a decision by a federal judge in Washington who ruled a couple of weeks ago that Pence must testify about Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, US media reported.
Trump’s intervention to try to block Pence’s testimony comes just under a week after the former president was indicted on 34 counts in New York for allegedly falsifying business records. EFE
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