(The Center Square) – The Republican primary’s Iowa caucuses are scheduled for Jan. 15, the first chance for voters to determine who they want to represent their party in November’s presidential election.
Iowa’s January caucuses are a regular tradition for a presidential primary season that – this time around – has been unusually enshrouded in indictments, impeachment inquiries and lawsuits heading into election year.
While the Iowa caucuses provide an opportunity for former President Donald Trump’s Republican challengers to fight for a surprise victory and start a fresh wave of momentum, it appears unlikely they’ll succeed. According to polling aggregation from FiveThirtyEight, Trump far outpaces his rivals with 50% support in Iowa as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis trails in second with 18.4% support.
National polling, including in The Center Square Voters’ Voice poll, shows Trump has more support than all of his Republican challengers combined with somewhere in the neighborhood of 62% support.
Trump fares well against President Joe Biden as well. A Morning Consult poll conducted on behalf of Bloomberg News released earlier this month shows Trump leading Biden in seven swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The smallest of those leads is 3 points, with some leads reaching 5 and 6 percentage points, far more than the margin of error for most polls.
Front of mind for those voters is what has been an Achilles heel for Biden: the roughly 20% increase in the price of goods and services in the U.S. since he took office.
“Three in 5 swing-state voters said the cost of everyday goods is most important to their votes next year when specifically thinking about economic issues, higher than any other concern tested,” Morning Consult said. “Over the past three months, the shares of voters in each of the seven states who said they see prices as increasing has declined even as most still see inflation as rising.”
A poll from Monmouth University released earlier this month put Biden’s approval rating at 34%, the lowest figure from Monmouth since Biden took office.
The election, though, is 10 months away and has a slew of impeachment hearings for Biden and legal challenges for Trump.
Biden faces mounting evidence that his family members and their business associates engaged in more than $20 million in overseas business selling the “Biden brand” to entities in China, Ukraine, Russia and more. House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, who is helping lead the impeachment inquiry into the president, has released bank records and witness testimony as well as copies of checks made out to the president.
Comer also has issued a flurry of subpoenas that could turn up more evidence. Hunter Biden refused to appear for one of those subpoenas, and as a result Comer announced he would begin contempt of Congress proceedings against Hunter.
Trump has his own legal challenges, facing nearly 100 indictments across several states. He has nearly two dozen court dates scheduled for the first three months of 2024 alone. It remains unclear, though, if any significant rulings will come down before November or if Trump’s team can succeed in delaying the various proceedings past election day.
Meanwhile, Trump faces a legal effort to oust him from the ballot in multiple states by his political opponents, who argue his connection to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol is tantamount to inciting an insurrection and as a result, disqualifying. The ouster attempts cite a section of the Fourteenth Amendment written to block Confederate leaders from holding office after the U.S. Civil War without a supermajority in the U.S. House and Senate.
The Colorado State Supreme Court heard that argument and ruled against Trump, but the Michigan State Supreme Court ruled in favor of Trump in the case. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has also now decided to boot Trump from the ballot, which has a good chance of receiving consideration before the U.S. Supreme Court along with the battles in other states.
Trump has blasted this effort, calling it election interference. He also touted his lead over Biden in the several swing states on Truth Social.
The Colorado Republican Party appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
If that court rules in favor of Trump, it will likely put an end to the effort nationwide. However, if the justices rule against Trump, efforts in states around the country would likely arise to remove Trump from the ballot and throw both the primary and certainly the general election into chaos.
In Colorado in particular, Trump will not appear on the ballot if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against him or refuses to hear the case. For now, Trump is set to appear on the March 5 Republican primary ballot unless the Supreme Court changes that with a decision before then.
This is the exact intensions of this treasonous, destructive, socialist Democrat Party.
To create such a disruption in the election that the Democrat Party can manipulate the elections so they can put whoever they want in the White House, just like they did in 2020 presidential election and put their corrupt, demented, puppet Joe Barack OBiden as president.
One would have to be suicidal to want to continue to let this treasonous, destructive, lying, immoral, unethical, woke Democrat Party destroy our country.
* Are you happy paying for other country’s wars?
* Are you happy paying for 10 Million illegal immigrants receiving free money, food, shelter, medical, entertainments, schooling and bringing in deadly fentanyl that is killing 500,000 Americans a year and making the Mexican Drug Cartel VERY wealthy?
* Are you happy that the entire would is laughing at and taking advantage of the corrupt fool puppet president Joe Beijing Biden and our citizens?
* Are you happy paying for the inflation that the Democrats have orchestrate and fabricated?
* Are you happy paying for the high crime?
* Are you happy paying for the Democrat Party turning our Dept of Justices into a weapon against anyone who does not support the Democrats?
These days i think the ONLY FOLKS who vote, democrat, ARE THOSE WHO DESPISE this nation and want to see it crumble..
This foolish diaspora of leading demonic Democrats. who have journeyed far from their original American Democrat DNA could not tell the difference between a mass patriotic display of Constitutional concerns and an imagined January 6th insurrection. Believe me, if the next election is electronically stolen in manipulated mail-in votes, and keyboard computer manipulated results, the next Demonstration in D.C. that consists again of hundreds of thousands of Red, White and Blue flag waving patriots will arrive 2nd amendment armed to the teeth to accomplish what the 2nd amendment was designed to do, i.e. protect, and defend the Constitution from all enemies internal and external. The spirit of the real American crown refusing George Washington, will extinguish the current spirit of Carl Marx that now rules the executive branch of government that will be silenced as Quicky as George Washington took out the whiskey rebellion,,,,,,and the light that will be shining in their eyes will not that of a Marxist missing link beast coming into a dawn of reason, but the light of a now missing link of Christ again coming into the hearts and minds of men,,,, Not a push from below, but a gift from above,,the very thing that makes America not just exceptional, but Makes America Great, Again,,,and Again,,and Always.
WE can HOPE Something happens, next Jan, if they ONCE again, steal the election..
How the heck do you follow up after these 2 comments????
Mr. Trump taking it one way or another anyway. Won’t matter if he wins popular vote or not. This go round will have no miscalculations if he loses. He’ll need more followers to show up and storm the vote count. Would be interesting to learn how often would the DFAD happen. And will there be an official DFAD cap? DFAD weekly, monthly or on some other predetermined cycle. This is going to be a real show’. Let’s hope immigration issue gets better (people coming anyway), and hopefully Palestinian- Israeli situation improves regardless who’s president.
Democrat voters have become comfortable and even supportive of the lawlessness within the party. Elections are now seen as opportunities for them to force their will on the rest of America and a false feeling of righteousness and superiority gives them license to assail the rights of others. These are dangerous people who have no problem embracing totalitarians and despots so long as their liberal ideology is promoted and mandated. Rights, freedom, and liberty are words that they believe only apply to them making a mockery of our Constitution.