Former President Trump holds a wide lead in the Republican presidential race, according to a poll released Monday, topping Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by 37 points. The New York Times/Siena College poll found Trump leading DeSantis 54 percent to 17 percent among likely Republican primary voters, while no other candidate reached more than 3 percent support. Sixty-five percent of Republicans who consider themselves “very conservative” also said they support Trump, while DeSantis secured support from only 15 percent of them, according to the survey. Eliminating all other GOP candidates, Republican voters still showed overwhelming support for Trump in a hypothetical one-on-one matchup with DeSantis, with Trump earning 62 percent support compared to DeSantis’s 31 percent.

Source: New York Times July 31, 2023 23:53 UTC