June 04 2023
In one of the most anticipated weeks of the 2024 campaign so far—with several candidates having just entered the race or preparing to announce this coming week—President Trump once again dominated.
It’s important to highlight several key moments.
Following the announcement of Ron DeSantis, audio from his secret donor meeting leaked to the press. The 40+ minute recording detailed Team DeSantis’s strategy behind his effort to secure the nomination. I encourage you to listen to it for yourself, but one of the most shocking takeaways was the failure of his senior team to detail how DeSantis can actually win the nomination.
According to Team DeSantis’s data, Republican primary voters view Ron DeSantis as more conservative than Donald Trump. According to the presenter, DeSantis is considered “Very Conservative” by 50% of voters in Iowa, 43% in New Hampshire, 45% in South Carolina, and 48% in Nevada.
The presenter summarizes Donald Trump’s conservative score as “much lower, which is really important in a Republican primary.” The problem? According to public polling, including the recent Quinnipiac University Poll, DeSantis is actually losing to Trump by a wider margin with voters who consider themselves “more conservative” than the Republican electorate at-large.
FiveThirtyEight noted in an analysis this past week that President Trump is consistently polling better than DeSantis with voters who self-identity as “very conservative.”
Nevertheless, the Associated Press reported this morning that DeSantis is attempting to move "right" of President Trump. Putting aside the absurdity of that effort, DeSantis's campaign doesn't have any data showing that this flawed strategy will work. DeSantis will still lose the nomination to President Donald Trump.
President Trump's town hall with Sean Hannity on Fox News Thursday night had 2.7 million viewers—more people tuned into President Trump’s 60-minute town hall than tuned into DeSantis’s Twitter announcement and post-announcement TV interview combined.
During this town hall, President Trump not only detailed his tremendous accomplishments while President, but he also laid out a bold vision for America’s future.
President Trump remains focused on saving America, and while the field for second place continues to expand, there’s only one person ready to stand strong against Joe Biden and the radical Democrats.
This summer presents a tremendous opportunity to prosecute the case against the Democrats and unite Republicans ahead of one of the most consequential moments in American history. At MAGA Inc., we greatly appreciate your support as we fight alongside President Trump to Make America Great Again.
Taylor Budowich,
CEO, Make America Great Again Inc.
Former ICE Director Tom Homan: "President Trump did more to secure our border than anybody by far"
- President Trump secured our Southern border.
- Even Ron DeSantis acknowledged this. He tweeted in July 2021: "The disaster at our border is a direct result of the Biden Administration ending Trump border policies that curbed illegal immigration, the influx of drugs, and human smuggling.”
- Former ICE Director Tom Homan said at an event last week: "President Trump did more to secure this President Trump did more to secure our border than anybody by far…illegal immigration down by 83%, 45-year low."
- Former ICE Director and CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan echoed these comments in an interview on Newsmax where he said that President Trump gave us the most secure border in "our lifetime."
- President Trump is committed to combatting illegal immigration. He rolled out a policy proposal this past week to end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants.
President Trump continues to be the preferred choice of Republican voters:
- "American Greatness Poll: Trump Leads DeSantis in Nevada"
- "Former President Trump leads Governor Ron DeSantis in Nevada by 32 points (53%-21%) in a multi-candidate poll of likely Nevada Republican voters."
- "On policy matters, voters prefer Trump on improving the economy, a whopping 64% prefer him to DeSantis (11%.) They also say Trump is the better candidate to oppose far-left progressives than DeSantis (49% to 22%) and that they believe Trump cares about their needs and concerns more than the Florida governor. (46% to 17%.)"
- "Voters say Trump has the best chance of beating Joe Biden with 39% saying so compared to 29% who say DeSantis has the better chance."
- Yahoo News: "Poll: No bump for DeSantis from 2024 launch as Trump continues to climb"
- "Among potential Republican primary voters — registered voters who identify as Republicans or GOP-leaning independents — Trump now leads the full field of seven declared candidates with 53%. That’s up from 48% in early May, before DeSantis threw his hat in the ring. And DeSantis now lags further behind than he did just a few weeks ago; his 25% is down from 28% in early May. Put another way, DeSantis trailed Trump by 20 points in the previous Yahoo News/YouGov poll. Today, he trails by 28 points."
- "Poll: Majority Republicans Believe Trump Has Better Chance to Win 2024 Election than DeSantis"
- "A majority of Republicans believe former President Donald Trump has a better chance to win the 2024 general election than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a recent LX News/YouGov poll found."
- "Most Republicans, 59 percent, believe Trump has the best chance of winning the presidential election, followed by 27 percent who believe DeSantis has the best chance and 13 percent who remain unsure."