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Poll: Trump's big post-indictment bounce is fading fast
The former president's lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the Republican primary has shrunk 10 points since late March.
Andrew Romano
·West Coast Correspondent
Former President Donald Trump at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum on April 14 in Indianapolis. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Former President Donald Trump got a big bounce among Republican primary voters after his indictment in New York in late March — but now that swell of support seems to be fading fast, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
The survey of 1,530 U.S. adults, which was conducted from April 14 to 17, suggests that Trump remains vulnerable — and far from inevitable — in the race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
Just two weeks ago, Trump was lapping Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, his strongest potential challenger, by 26 percentage points in a one-on-one matchup among voters who describe themselves as Republicans or Republican-leaning independents (57% to 31%). It was the former president’s widest lead to date.
Since then, however, Trump’s advantage over DeSantis has shrunk by 10 points (52% to 36%).
And while Trump retains majority support — just barely — in a head-to-head face-off against DeSantis, he has slipped back under 50% when pitted against the full Republican field, falling 3 points (to 49%) since the beginning of April.
For the first time since February, fewer than half of Republican voters now say they would prefer Trump (49%, down 5 points) to “someone else” as the party’s nominee. Instead, most say they would prefer someone else (39%) or that they’re not sure (12%).
It’s possible that Trump’s initial post-indictment bump was inflated by fans who were so eager to express their outrage that they were (temporarily) more responsive to pollsters. The new Yahoo News/YouGov survey may represent a return to more normal response patterns.
It’s also worth noting that Trump is still polling better today than he was earlier this year. Trump’s two-way lead over DeSantis, for example, is twice as large as it was in late February and mid-March. And as recently as early February, it was DeSantis who was narrowly ahead of Trump, 45% to 41%.
Yet the new Yahoo News/YouGov poll indicates that Trump won’t be able to ride right-wing indictment backlash all the way to the nomination — let alone the White House.
