CBS POLL: Trump’s lead among Republican voters is growing nationwide

CAMPAIGN 2024: A new CBS News/YouGov poll shows that former President Trump’s lead among Republican voters is growing nationally as the nominating process begins.

The poll shows Trump’s support among national Republican primary voters has now risen to its highest level yet.

Support among likely Republican Primary voters:

Donald Trump – 69%
Ron DeSantis – 14%
Nikki Haley – 12%
Vivek Ramaswamy – 4%
Asa Hutchinson – 1%

Trump’s support has risen from 58% last May to 69% now.

Republican voters continue to believe Trump is their best bet to beat Joe Biden in November, even as Nikki Haley leads Joe Biden by a wider margin in a general election match-up than either Trump or Ron DeSantis.

Some of his rivals have asserted that Trump’s ongoing legal issues could hurt his chances in the general election, but Republican voters still view him as their best chance to beat Biden, and as far as the general goes, it actually makes some of these Republicans want to show support for him.

And while Nikki Haley’s perceived electability continues to grow, her numbers are just nowhere near Trump’s.

This CBS News/YouGov survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 2,870 U.S. adult residents interviewed between January 10-12, 2024, including 786 likely Republican primary voters.  The margin of error is ±2.5 points for the sample overall and ±4.7 points for likely Republican primary voters.

— CBS News