According to a new Wall Street Journal poll, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has developed a double-digit lead against US President Joe Biden in a possible 2024 election fight, quadrupling the margin enjoyed by the top-polling Republican contender, Donald Trump.
According to the poll, Haley would defeat Biden in the national popular vote by a margin of 51% to 34% if she were to earn the Republican Party’s candidature in 2024. In comparison, former President Trump leads the Democrat incumbent 47-43, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is even with Biden at 45-45.
Trump is far and away the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, but his candidature could be jeopardised by the fact that he is facing 91 felony charges in four distinct criminal indictments. Haley, who served as the United States’ ambassador to the United Nations during Trump’s presidency, has attempted to persuade people that she would be the most electable Republican candidate in the 2024 general election.
“We have to face the fact that Trump is the most disliked politician in America,” Haley remarked in an August Republican primary debate. “We can’t win a general election that way.”
According to a Politico analysis of four recent 2024 polls, Haley would attract a sizable number of independent and moderate voters who loathe Biden’s performance as president but dislike Trump even more. And, according to a Fox News survey released last month, although Biden leads Trump by four points among women voters, Haley leads the Democrat by five points.
The WSJ poll showed that when the general election field is expanded to include third-party and independent candidates – as it will be in real life – Trump’s lead over Biden widens to six percentage points, at 37% to 31%. Just 23% of survey respondents said Biden’s policies as president have helped them, while 53% said he has hurt them.
Trump leads the rest of the Republican primary field by an average of roughly 48 percentage points, according to seven surveys tracked by RealClear Politics. His poll support averages more over 60%, while DeSantis has 12.7% and Haley has 12.4%.
At the final Republican primary debate on Wednesday, Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire entrepreneur polling at 5%, accused Haley of being crooked. He said she had been benefited by US defence contractors after leaving Trump’s government in 2018 and that she would “send your kids to die so she can buy a bigger house.”
Haley has positioned herself as the most hawkish Republican candidate, urging Washington to terrorise its geopolitical adversaries by renaming the US Department of Defence the “Department of Offence.” She has urged for the United States to provide substantial military assistance to both Ukraine and Israel, stating that Washington’s goal should be to “eradicate, not weaken, Hamas.”
China, according to Haley, is the “strongest and most disciplined enemy” the US has ever faced. She has pledged to outlaw TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media site she blames for rising anti-Semitism in the United States. She stated last month that all social media users should be authenticated by name on social media.
