American Republican primary surveys show Trump with a sizable advantage.

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. The RealClearPolitics’ average of all major polls showed Trump at 56% and DeSantis at 19.9%, a 36-point gap. Two surveys by Economist/YouGov showed DeSantis tied with President Joe Biden in a hypothetical match-up, but Trump two points ahead of the incumbent. In the 2020 election, Biden officially won the most votes ever in US history and won the electoral college by the exact same split as Trump did in his 2016 upset over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

DeSantis is immensely popular in Florida, winning the 2022 re-election with a 19-point landslide, but the polls suggest this has not translated to national support. A number of Republicans who do not wish to see Trump back in the White House have lined up