Former President Trump holds commanding leads over potential Republican challengers in early 2024 primary states Iowa and South Carolina, according to new Fox Business polls. In Iowa, Trump garnered 46% support compared to 16% for Ron DeSantis and 11% for Tim Scott. In South Carolina, Trump received 48% support to 14% for Nikki Haley and 13% for DeSantis. The polls show Trump with wide leads despite being under investigation by the Justice Department for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. The strong polling numbers indicate Trump remains a formidable front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination.

47 points

Republicans are wild. A twice impeached, twice (so far!) indicted, disloyal, adulterating, serial grifter is leading the race for them. Absolutely amazing. I guess it’s true what I heard. The only American Standardstm are toilet seats. Imagine how awful you have to be as a person to vote for someone like that! So god damn weird.

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I love this!

The only American Standards are toilet seats

😆

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I heard that in a song about 25-30 years ago. I don’t even remember the group, but I would like to give them credit.

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4 points

It’s perhaps more prescient now than it ever was. Society 30 years ago was much saner and more stable. These days everyone be on a hair trigger.

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4 points

Meanwhile, the Japanese have much better toilets.

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2 points

My god yes they do. Bidets should be more common in the US.

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2 points

I get a laugh every time I see “American Standard Plebe”

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7 points

People will do some wild things when someone tells them what they want to hear. As long as he keeps fighting the “elite” they’ll follow in droves.

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It’s not really surprising. Trump supporters are cultists at this point.

But these polls are just too early to mean anything. His supporters didn’t get to this place because they are immune to propaganda. If Murdoch decides to go with a different candidate, plenty of time to mold 40-50 million rural voters.

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I think this is key right here. Once election season really kicks off in January, then we’ll see who the GOP and Murdoch put forward, and then see what the polls have to say. 2024 is going to be an interesting year, and I cannot wait for it to be over.

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Yes…I’d like to submit my vote for “the non-GOP candidate with the best chance of winning” right now, and just skip 2024 completely.

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Trump’s gonna be in a trial for espionage right as he’s accepting the Republican nomination for president in 2024…

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He convinced his supporters a long time ago that anything against him is a hoax or witch hunt or the deep state out to get him or whatever, so they’ll vote for him regardless. They don’t care he’ll be in trial.

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Which will mean absolutely nothing to his cultists.

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It’s actually taken as a sign he’s doing something right, because he’s being “”“persecuted”“”

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11 points

So they’re all in on the criminal traitor. WTF Iowa?

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recently saw an article quoting a trumper, along the lines of “i don’t care what he says, he’s got my vote”.

that’s the average conservative for you. He’s their guy, they either don’t fucking care or just don’t fucking know. Lot of the facts are just discarded because mainstream media/fake news/libs/wokeism, whatever. They never even consider the content, the judgement is made before a single word is read or heard.

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6 points

Yep, they’ve identified their egos with him.

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DeSantis is polling beneath Haley in South Carolina?

Wooooooof. So much for his regional support. You’re supposed to be at least kinda a hit in the DeSouth, Mr. Muppet Made for Satan. You’re making Jeb Bush look good.

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Nikki Haley is the former governor or South Carolina. She was broadly liked after her good leadership during a Hurricane that hit the state.

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