American Republicans begin choosing their candidate for the presidential election in November at the so-called caucuses (gatherings) in Iowa.
According to the latest survey, former American President Donald Trump with 72 percent of support within the Republican Party surpasses his party opponents in the race for the nomination for the presidential elections in the United States, while the support of the current President Joseph Biden is at the lowest level for any president in the last 15 years. Euronews.
The survey, conducted by Ipsos for ABC News, shows that Trump is far ahead of his Republican opponents in key measures of popularity.
Ahead of the Republican internal party elections (caucuses) in Iowa that will be held today, a poll conducted at the national level shows that Trump is particularly well rated by Republicans, as well as independent Republicans based on three criteria: leadership, perceived electability and qualifications, reports Kosovo online.
Trump the strongest
Namely, the largest number of respondents (65 percent) believe that Trump is the strongest Republican leader, more than half (54 percent) believe that he is the most qualified candidate of the party, and even 68 percent of Republicans think that Trump has the best chance to win the presidential elections in November.
Trump also leads his Republican opponents, by a smaller margin, on both empathy (i.e. understanding people's problems) and shared values.
Also, seven in 10 Republicans and members of the GOP (the colloquial term for the Republican Party) expressed a favorable opinion of Trump overall.
"Overall, 72 percent of Republican adults would be satisfied with Trump as the candidate, similar to 75 percent in May, and 61 percent would be satisfied with Ron DeSantis." Others have lower scores, with Nikki Haley up to 48 percent, Vivek Ramaswamy 44 percent, Chris Christie (who stepped down on Wednesday) 23 percent and Asa Hutchinson 17 percent," the poll said.
Democrats and Biden
Compared to Trump, significantly fewer members of the Democratic Party and Democratic-leaning voters would be satisfied with Biden as their party's candidate, 57 percent, which, according to the researchers, is a reflection of his low approval rating overall and on issues related to the economy and immigration. .
On the other hand, according to the ABC poll, 58 respondents disapprove of Biden's performance and the current president's approval rating is 33 percent, which is worse than Trump's lowest approval rating as president of the United States (36 percent) and the lowest level of support for any American president since George W. Bush in the period 2006-2008. year.
Personal ratings are about equally negative for both candidates, as only 33 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Biden, which is significantly lower than before the 2020 election, when the incumbent had 50 percent support.
On the other hand, only 35 percent of the surveyed Americans expressed a positive attitude towards Trump.
The survey, conducted in English and Spanish, included a sample of 2.228 respondents.