Huge Trump lead in US Republican primaries – polls

Former US president Donald Trump is far ahead of all declared competitors in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who still hasn’t formally announced his candidacy. A Morning Consult poll published on Wednesday showed Trump at 61% and DeSantis at just 18% of the primary vote, for a 43-point spread. This tracked with the latest Big Data Poll results, which showed Trump at 60% and DeSantis at 17%. Trump’s former VP Mike Pence is in distant third place with 6% of the votes, followed by Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy at 4% each, according to Morning Consult. The RealClearPolitics’ average of all major polls showed Trump at 56% and DeSantis at 19.9%, a 36-point gap. RCP also cited two surveys by Economist/YouGov, which showed DeSantis tied with President Joe Biden in a hypothetical match-up, but Trump two points ahead of the incumbent. Big Data also showed Biden losing to Trump if the 2024 election were held this month, with the…