President Trump in 2024? Popularity continues to grow for the controversial and divisive politician
It’s just over a week since Donald Trump's Iowa victory, where the former president defied expectations, winning almost all counties with a 51% vote and a 30-point lead.
That’s despite four indictments and two impeachments, his polarizing global image, and election denial stance.
His supporters now envision his second political rise. Globally, confusion persists: How does this divisive figure maintain such popularity?
This week, Trump's path to becoming the Republican Party candidate for president was strengthened after his largest rival pulled out of the race.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are matched in favorability with the American people, but despite being of similar age, concerns are growing regarding Biden's health. The question is that with Trump's growing strength, would the president be persuaded to step down?
Voting for the Republican Party nomination moves next to New Hampshire, where polling for The Washington Post gives Trump an 18-point lead over his last challenger, Nikki Haley. This makes it look ever more likely that a 77-year-old will be facing an 81-year-old in the race to be the next American president.
That’s despite four indictments and two impeachments, his polarizing global image, and election denial stance.
His supporters now envision his second political rise. Globally, confusion persists: How does this divisive figure maintain such popularity?
This week, Trump's path to becoming the Republican Party candidate for president was strengthened after his largest rival pulled out of the race.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are matched in favorability with the American people, but despite being of similar age, concerns are growing regarding Biden's health. The question is that with Trump's growing strength, would the president be persuaded to step down?
Voting for the Republican Party nomination moves next to New Hampshire, where polling for The Washington Post gives Trump an 18-point lead over his last challenger, Nikki Haley. This makes it look ever more likely that a 77-year-old will be facing an 81-year-old in the race to be the next American president.
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00:00 And I really think this is time now for everybody, our country, to come together. We want to
00:07 come together, whether it's Republican or Democrat or liberal or conservative. It would
00:13 be so nice if we could come together and straighten out the world and straighten out the problems.
00:19 It's just over a week since Donald Trump's Iowa victory, where the former president defied
00:25 expectations, winning almost all counties with a 51% vote and a 30-point lead. That's despite four
00:34 indictments and two impeachments, his polarizing global image and election-denial stance. His
00:42 supporters now envision his second political rise. Globally, confusion persists. How does this
00:49 divisive figure maintain such popularity? Teflon Don, I mean, nothing sticks to him.
00:55 That is a sort of a particular sort of conundrum that we all sort of have to sort of try and work
01:02 out. He's like a vampire when people think he's been killed off by sort of the latest sort of
01:06 court appearance. Actually, ironically, it seems to me, the more times he appears in court,
01:11 the more it gives the sort of the justification for those who claim that, of course, it's a
01:15 witch hunt. And this week, Trump's path to becoming the Republican Party candidate for president
01:22 was strengthened after his largest rival pulled out of the race. I am today suspending my campaign.
01:29 It's clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another
01:34 chance. Trump is superior to the current incumbent, Joe Biden. The most recent Gallup opinion poll
01:39 suggests President Biden and former President Trump are matched in favorability with the
01:46 American people. But despite being of similar age, concerns are growing regarding Biden's health.
01:52 You know, I suspect that he's going to sort of hang on as long as possible because
01:56 the view is it's too late for Biden to step down and to have a sort of realistic sort of
02:00 canister to step into sort of the face. But hey, you know, that's the nature of the system. If you
02:04 were to do that, then, of course, it goes to sort of the vice president, Senator Kamala Harris,
02:08 who I don't see as the sort of the person that sort of Democrats want to stand in the next
02:13 election. Voting for the Republican Party nomination moves next to New Hampshire,
02:19 where polling for The Washington Post gives Trump an 18 point lead over his last challenger,
02:26 Nikki Haley. This makes it look ever more likely that a 77 year old will be facing an 81 year old
02:34 in the race to be next American president. But yet Trump is late 70s. So he'll be, you know,
02:40 get getting like buying one of the oldest presidents that we've ever had. It does make
02:44 you wonder. And I like many people ask, is this the sort of the best? You know, if it is a sort
02:48 of Trump versus Biden sort of presidential election, you know, that's the sort of the best
02:53 that the greatest democracy as his claim in the world can sort of offer. Judging on the data that
02:58 we've got thus far, unless something really dramatic happens, I think we're going to see
03:02 a President Trump killer for the second time.