CBS has produced another poll [DATA HERE] just ahead of the first-loser GOPe debate in Wisconsin. President Trump, with 62% support, holds a whopping 46-point lead in the 2024 GOP primary election, as Ron DeSantis continues to collapse in national and early state polls.
For the billionaire Wall Street donors, multinationals and corporate funders of the DeSantis campaign, the scale of epic fail is off the charts. Never before have so few given so much for so little. It pains Margaret Brennan to pretend so much. WATCH:
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[Transcript – MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to the 2024 campaign and our new CBS News poll shows former President Trump with his biggest lead yet this cycle with support of 62 percent of Republican primary voters surveyed. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has dropped since our last survey. He’s now at 16 percent. And the rest of the field remains in single digits as most of them prepare for the primary debate coming up later this week.
Our elections and surveys director Anthony Salvanto is here with us.
Anthony, it’s great to see you in person.
ANTHONY SALVANTO: Good to see you.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, does it matter to these primary voters if Donald Trump is on that stage or not?
ANTHONY SALVANTO: Well, he’s not in a competitive race right now. Right now they would nominate him and it would be not close. It would be an easy win for him.
Look, you know, there’s a couple of dynamics here going on for those who do debate that I think even underpin him more, and that is, when we ask voters, what do you want to hear in this debate, you get this lopsided number that wants the other candidates, make the case for yourselves, but don’t criticize Donald Trump. It was poultry, 9 percent, that wants to hear critiques. And that puts the other candidates in a box.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It dynamic with Donald Trump is always different, isn’t it?
So, have the indictments that he has had to date impacted him in any way?
ANTHONY SALVANTO: He’s held steady. His lead, as you said at the top, is even bigger as the rest of the field has fallen back.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So it sounds like no.
ANTHONY SALVANTO: It — the answer is no, but it’s – it’s also underpinning him in some way in this regard.
He is, when we ask, why are you supporting Donald Trump? Well, among other reasons, his voters say, it’s to support him during his legal fights, to show that – that support.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It’s helping him.
ANTHONY SALVANTO: So, in that regard, it does help him, or at least it – it girds that support from his – his substantial base.
Well, the other part of this, though, if we unpack it is, why. And you see a couple things. One is that they reject the premise of these indictments because, a, they say they’re politically motivated, and that swamps any other concerns, number one. We’ve seen that throughout all the indictments. Number two, they say that, well, if Donald Trump tried to stay in office, they feel it was through legal and constitutional means. That’s different from other Americans who think it was illegal. But for Republicans, the reason they feel that way, is that so many of them still buy what Trump was talking about in terms of a fraudulent election, those unfounded, unproven claims. But Republicans believe that. So, that’s how that narrative then forms that – that buttress against what’s coming at him in the indictments.
Finally, though, I’ve got to add this for a larger context, and that is, Republicans, to a larger degree, see the U.S. political system, they tell us, as corrupt. Now, a lot of people think it’s dysfunctional, but Republicans in particular think it’s – think it’s corrupt.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
ANTHONY SALVANTO: Well, what that does is, it sets up Trump for them as the honest broker for them against that system. In fact, he’s winning among people who want an honest candidate. They see him as the truth teller.
MARGARET BRENNAN: That’s a fascinating dynamic. So, for everyone else who has to show up at that debate stage, how do they differentiate themselves?
ANTHONY SALVANTO: Well, I think there’s one possible opening between the – the — what people say they’re hearing and what they want to hear. And it’s this. Republican voters tell us they’re hearing a lot about Donald Trump. Now, he’s the frontrunner, but they don’t all want to hear that in part because of all the indictment news.
But what they want to hear about is the economy. Specifically, about plans to help lower inflation, to help the economy. And in that way, they’re just like all American voters it at this point, right? They care about, how does the price of eggs come down? How do they get to – to buy a house if they’re trying to?
MARGARET BRENNAN: They want more policy. That’s interesting.
Anthony, this is fascinating.
And you can find the full poll results on our website at cbsnews.com.
We’ll be back in a moment.
Argentina is an example of Modern Monetary Theory:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/milei-not-argentinas-problem-socialism
None of the potential 1st losers is worth listening to & as a group, they’re not worth watching. I’m simply to old for the smell, sights & sounds of the Republican’t brand of a circus.
If PDJT is doing something else, I’ll be listening to/watching that.
Let the clown show proceed without me.
Who is cleaning up after the Rino elephants leave their presents on the floor? Brett Bair would look good with a shovel and wheelbarrow
Margaret Brennan, is verging on demented. Look at her whole demeanor. Its manic, spiteful, and ugly.
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She also seems rather quieter than usual. Hahahaha…
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I disagree. I think during this interview, she was uncharacteristically objective.
I’d prefer the cabbage patch “news” anchor to lean on his pitchfork while Ms Martha shovels the dung.
But I don’t always get what I prefer…
If President Trump prefers to remain silent that night, I will be out… walking my rat.
funnybunny.
Lol, I’ll be washing my hair!
SyFy Channel.
I’ll watch both, it is always good policy to watch what the opposition play is.
Better you than me. I’ve heard enough from all of the slack jawed neocons that’ll be present & if there’s some startling news made, I’ll see/hear it from other sources.
I haven’t watched fraud news in years & I’m not making an exception for the Keebler Elves.
I wouldn’t show until Christy was out of the debates, along with the other noise makers.
They should all show up for the debate in one car and pile out.
Bidenomics in action…
Use Red Bull to stop your Ferrari from burning.
Film the episode … or help fight the fire? I don’t understand the mentality of filming …
I think they thought it would be cool to drive fast in the field (no highway patrol), but the remnant plants stalks cause excess friction and make the tires overheat and catch fire. So then they are well away from any source to extinguish a fire and a LOT of tinder to make a Climate Change event.
Change of Season event. FIFY. lol.
Re-enacting Maui?
Hot engines and catalytical filters can and do start range fires. All it takes is to stop your vehicle for a few minutes with dry grasses in close proximity to the hot metal.
Notice later in the feed that there is fire under the middle and front of both vehicles, and none of the boys there have a clue as to why the fire is spreading.
Very apt portrayal of Bidenomics….
True. Catalytic converters have started more car fires than most people realize or even consider.
Expect more distractions now this is out
Hunter was involved in the Trump impeachment over Ukraine
Jimmy and Rosalind Carter are in last stages of hospice.
I think that will be the next distraction.
That debate seems to me to be like they are all trying to saddle up and ride dead horses.
Better find a Clydesdale or a Belgian draft horse for Krispy Kreme Christie, large horses with strong backs… even if they’re dead.
The real President Trump leads the field by a considerable amount, because all the second stringers running against him, don’t have an original thought amongst them. They all push the same stale globalist crap, the country doesn’t want or need. President Trump has a plan to make the country great again, the second stringers have their mega donors telling them what to say and do.
Likely the lowest watched primary debate in the history of these debates.
In 2016, the DNC REEEE’d all season long.
Now the GOPe are doing the same.
The squealing makes it sound like they’re the same thing.
Secretariat at 1973 Belmont Stakes. Is this a good video depicting Trump lead?
Perfect
Just one difference, I felt bad for Sham if it had been any other year
Sham would have been the triple crown winner. He was also a great
race horse just unfortunately went up against the GOAT.
I don;t feel bad for any of the 1, 2 , 3 or 15 percenters running behind POTUS.
It kills them that there is a large swath of the public who will never buy into their lies.
The boy who cried wolf had nothing on these charlatans. But still, they wonder why they aren’t believed.
And that, my friends, is what is truly unbelievable!
Good Lord, the pained thumbnail pic w/ DePantsless being the only face incapable of forcing a smile and visibly miserable. Really says it all at this point. I almost feel bad taking potshots at him online. Almost.
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No amount of election interference can stop what’s coming.
Trump will be our nominee, and if the point of 2024 is to fire Joe Biden, then the GOP should rally around Trump.
It must be frustrating for the people who have weaponized our justice system, to know that every time they indict the former President his poll numbers go up.
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Trump will be our nominee, and if the point of 2024 is to fire Joe Biden, then the GOP should rally around Trump.
That explains why the Greedy Old Possums aren’t rallying around PDJT.
The UniParty has one goal, to thwart MAGA.
I sure hope President Trump doesn’t pick any of these clowns in the debate for his VP. Something tells me he won’t.
KARI LAKE
Are these people just pretending to be surprised that “Republicans think the system is corrupt”? How could they think otherwise? How could anyone think otherwise?
That reminds me—when are they going to arrest the RIGGERS?
i know– killed me to read these silly excerpts from the show– MB saying things like “but Republicans believe…” and “fascinating!” as if the guy was some type of guru….puh-leeze!
If anybody at this point CAN’T tell the gov is corrupt, they need to pull their heads out of the ground and take a look around…
Once President trump is confirmed Candidate they can swing their money back to whoever fills in for Biden.
“MARGARET BRENNAN: They want more policy. That’s interesting.
Anthony, this is fascinating.”
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I’m curious as to why Brennan thinks it is fascinating that voters are concerned with policy.
“I’m curious as to why Brennan thinks it is fascinating that voters are concerned with policy.”
Because she and her entire ilk think we are dumb as dirt, too stupid to understand policy. They view all of MAGA that way.
MAGA is a cult according to Joe and Mika.
GOOD QUESTION!!!
Because, it must be that way on the Democratic / Progressive side? I think.
If you take some former Lefties like Glenn Greenwald & Jimmy Dore, they are “on principle“, anti-war, pro free speech, anti-security state, etc. They never assumed the Democratic Party could become pro-war, pro-censorship and pro security state. However, what they learned is that Democrats put their “party over policy“. On that side, the policy simply isn’t important, as Sam Harris said, he wouldn’t care if Hunter Biden had dead children in his basement, the laptop story needed to be censored.
So, the assumption is that if things work like that inside the liberal bubble, that is the way things work outside it as well.
And we might be making the same mistake, trying to talk about “policy” when all they want to talk about is DJT’s “personality”.
As Glenn Greenwald often says, the average MAGA voter is far more informed about the nation and the world than the average Progressive voter. Their voters simply may not have the fund of knowledge to form opinions about policy? If your approach is to treat your voters like mushrooms, “well manured and in the dark”, you get used it.
Glenn is correct about MAGA voters being incredibly informed. Since President Trump came down the “golden escalator,” it prodded us to start confirming our suspicions about how our country was being undermined from within. Once President Trump was in the WH, MAGA then had to acknowledge to themselves how absolutely corrupt & vicious our own Republican politicians are & that they are at least equally responsible for the demise of our country, if not more!
It’s astonishing the number of MAGA voters that know the names of Reps & Senators from almost every state, the names of cabinet members from several administrations & even the names of many from the IC & MIC communities. This list doesn’t include world leaders.
I believe a lot of us could replace the Lefty lunatics in education, at all levels, & teach Civics, America’s Founding & How Government Works BETTER than the “experts” doing it now.
Who is going to watch the fake debates?
“Never before have so few given so much for so little.” Quite Churchillian by Sundance.
“It was poultry”
Bruh, paltry, not poultry.
“Republicans, to a larger degree, see the U.S. political system, they tell us, as corrupt. Now, a lot of people think it’s dysfunctional, but Republicans in particular think it’s – think it’s corrupt.”
That’s why I keep saying to stop calling things “weaponized,” and call them corrupt. “Weaponized” implies bias, but “corrupt” is recognized as lawlessness verging on evil.
both…corrupt in the way that they are weaponizing the government…
Agree with you, too, vladdy.
Excellent point. “Corrupt” does imply the darkness of their evil.
Let’s see…
No way I’ll ever waste time the time to watch this a$$ clown show in real time on Faux.
Faux has put limitations on others showing it in two areas of time—live and in replay. The later means it will be swallowed into a dark hole quickly, oh how convenient for the losers.
The meme masters will have the clips/ screen shots “memed” and available on various platforms very quickly, hats off to the meme makers.
Guess I’ll have to see if it’s John Wayne week on the Grit Channel.
How is DeSantimonious getting 16%; oh, it’s CBS, gotcha.
I don’t know what to even think about this today. I knew yesterday, but today I don’t because I haven’t consulted Truth Social yet. After that I’ll know what to think. Talk to you then.
Well how is it fascinating that we “want more policy” when we are cretins who simply follow our man-God and consult Truth Social every day for what we are supposed to “believe” today.
Every time these boobs open their mouths there are certain truths: facts are massaged or left out purposefully and to the extent they confront reality they either dismiss it or illogically address it. And always for me the baseness for their absolute elitist view of their superiority founded on nothing but the circle that might surround them at happy hour is marvelously displayed. They hate the thought of me mercilessly because it evidences their hollowness, vapidity and arrogance coupled with stupidity.
The very idea that the losers don’t recognize they have been blown away should disqualify each and every one of dogcatcher.
The Great Pretending continues.
The Meatball is burnt and stuck to the skillet. I’d guess VRama will now be presented as a Trump-lite candidate. He’ll get a free ride from the entire Uniparty, spewing MAGA type lingo with no media pushback. It’ll be fake, but it probably helps MAGA overall. And eventually, he has to go up against Trump direct, and no candidate has survived that so far. So he becomes a point of leverage, a useful tool.
There is no path for the Uniparty other than Lawfare and election theft. It’s too bad, but I hope Trump puts 80% of his priorities on those right now. The also rans are not a threat, and may never be, Newsom included.
GOP: the incredible shrinking party.
The sooner the GOP sinks to -0- the sooner the conservative movement can take Center Stage.
Not one of these other so called candidates matter. HELLO? They do not matter! The debates…do not matter. We are so far beyond their illusion of politics as usual….they just don’t get it…or they can’t believe they have lost their hold that they have had for decades. We…the… People……are done with the facade of choice and the uniparty criminals in the swamp! There is not a damn thing they can do to garner our attention. FOX has lost us and you can thank…ultimately Murdoch…but as I sit here thinking about when I tuned them out….and gee it was actually the voice of Hannity that started to make me sick! And the Bret Baer calls Arizona on election night way too soon! THAT’S when I realized they were in on it!
I do not, will not ever again watch FOX and I haven’t! So a debate there by a bunch of establishment RATS does not interest those that are concerned about our Republic! They aren’t! They are concerned about…”their democracy” and DJT is a threat to that and so is the MAGA movement behind Trump. Well…they,the real threat, or at least part of it will be on that debate stage that night hosted by other threats on a show, platform or news network that is also…part of that threat!
Don’t go to Red State for the news.
Exactly. Red State is a site belonging to Salem Media. Every one of their sites are nothing but DeFraud cheerleading sites.
One of the editors, Erik Erikson, held some DeFraud event in Atlanta this past weekend, where DeFraud also huddled with the corrupt, globalist Kemp. Salem Media bills itself as a “conservative” site…but it is 💯 GOPe sanctioned.
They definitely have self interests in maintaining the status quo.
Spit on everyone participating in trying to destroy President Trump & MAGA!!!
“They want more policy. That’s interesting.
Anthony, this is fascinating.”
Here’s a journalist who is admitting she never knew policy had anything to do with politics. The people on the left have zero concept of policies that work vs. policies that don’t work. They only care about power. They are parasitically connected with the globalists who also want power. Their policies DEFINITELY DON’T WORK FOR THE MASS OF HUMANITY, just for themselves at the expense of the REST OF HUMANITY.
The Left is busy burning down the country while she is having trouble wrapping her head around the concept of MAGA voters having policy priorities.
Sometimes it seems like the country is going down in flames no matter what our human concerns. Those burning us down are the power hungry elites who are evil. They want to pick up all the burnt down property at bargain prices and lock us all down again in the fall.
Twitter will go back to being the left wing sewer it always was, because all the left knows how to do is break things. It takes far more effort as well as gratitude to build things.
If there is any hope at all, it is in us uniting to take our country back from all these criminals.
“They care about, how does the price of eggs come down? How do they get to – to buy a house if they’re trying to?” Where were these people 2016-2020 when President Trump had low prices for about everything? Trump talks all the time about his successful economic policy. Trump has a track record to run on, and all the other loser-debaters don’t. Why would anyone listen to these losers? Trump is the only candidate for 2024!
Frankly, I don’t want to hear anything from those other candidates because I know they all GOPe, except for Vivek who is irrelevant because he’s probably a fraud and has no chance to win even if he’s legit. The system has been so perverted that none of it matters anymore. What matters is fixing the system and only Trump has a chance in hell of getting that done. In fact, he is the only one who we know will even try to fix it. There is no choice here. It’s Trump or it’s the end of America as a free country.
After the debate, they will claim DeSantis wins the debate and will release a poll that will show Trump support drops and DeSantis’s support rises.
Poor Vivek, He sure put his foot in mouth, Please dont let this guy get away with walking back what he said, He would cut off Aid to Israel and then he said that after 2028 He would allow china to attack Tiwan and every one this morning sure wants him to walk it back but how can you walk back something that YOu believe at the time you are saying it He shouldn’t say things unless he knows what he is saying is right about American policy
The vast majority of voters are against framing an innocent man. Go figure. …. The real question is, can the Democrats manufacture enough fraudulent ballots to take the 2024 election.
Trump trashers at the debate: Asa Hutchinson, Chris Christie, Will Hurd.