MAR-A-LAGO CLUB, PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – A newly-released poll of likely Republican primary voters in the upcoming Presidential election shows Florida’s Ron DeSantis leading Donald Trump by 9 points nationally.
WPA Intelligence, calling itself “a leading provider of survey research, predictive analytics and application-based data management technology … a polling, data science & tech firm with unmatched accuracy.” They conducted a poll of GOP voters this month, weighing Presidential contenders in the looming 2024 election. WPA Intelligence released the results of their poll on the afternoon of Thursday, Feb 23, 2023:
Our latest national poll of Republican primary voters:
DeSantis 40%
Trump 31%
Haley 8%
Pence 8%
Cheney 5%
Pompeo 2%
Rubio 1%
Hogan 1%
T. Scott <1%
Poll data was taken prior to announcement of candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
The poll sample was taken from 1,000 verified GOP primary voters, conducted February 13-16. The sample was selected from the voter file using registration-based sampling (RBS) and was stratified by geography, age, race, partisanship, gender, and vote history to ensure a representative sample. MoE of 3.1% at the 95% confidence level.
Republicans are feverishly hoping that they can take the White House. The coveted 2022 election “red wave” never materialized, as Donald Trump-backed candidates across the nation were defeated time and again. Worse for MAGA’s, Brandon’s Democrats held the Senate and kept it close even as they relinquished the House to the GOP.
