Elections

Following indictment, Trump surges ahead of DeSantis in head to head poll

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2 years ago

April 5, 2023

As the world watches former President Donald Trump appear in a Manhattan court this week, voters are brewing. A new poll conducted after the indictment of Donald Trump found that in a head-to-head primary battle with Ron DeSantis, the former president leads the governor by 33 points. That number is significantly up from just 12 points back in January.

McLaughlin & Associates polled 1,000 likely primary voters following news reports that Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg “planned on indicting the former president for falsifying business records related to a hush-money payment made to a porn star ahead of the 2016 election. Trump will be arraigned on those charges at a courthouse in Manhattan Tuesday afternoon” writes National Review.

In a 2024 general election pitting Trump against President Joe Biden, the former president currently enjoys a four-point margin, a number that “is virtually unchanged from our March 2023 survey,” McLaughlin added.

47 percent believe Trump will not get a fair trial. “McLaughlin found that among the remaining 12 potential Republican nominees, Former vice-president Mike Pence garnered only 6 percent support and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley a scant 4 percent. No other candidate broke the 2 percent threshold.”

The results were virtually identical to a Quinnipiac poll released in mid-March showing that long-shot candidates including former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy failed to even breach the 2 percent bar. National figures who have yet to announce their intentions to run, including Senator Ted Cruz (R., Tex.,) and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, also struggled.

The Quinnipiac poll echoed McLaughlin’s findings that in a one-on-one contest for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Trump would edge out DeSantis 51 to 40 percent amongst primary voters.

“DeSantis might be the buzz in the GOP conversation, but for now Trump is seeing no erosion and, in fact, enjoys a bump in his lead in the Republican primary,” Quinnipiac polling analyst Tim Malloy noted in an official statement following publication of the survey.

Elections

Canada Beefs up Border Security After Trump Threatened Sweeping Tariffs

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2 days ago

December 3, 2024

Sara Carter Staff

In November, president-elect Donald Trump announced on social media that he would impose a 25% tariff on all products from Canada and Mexico if they do not take an active role in containing illegal immigration as well as the level of illicit drugs entering into the United States.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Trump at his residence in Mar-a-Lago, after which the Canadian government vowed to secure the border. “We got, I think, a mutual understanding of what they’re concerned about in terms of border security,” Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc, who accompanied Trudeau at Mar-a-Largo, said of the meeting in an interview with Canadian media. “All of their concerns are shared by Canadians and by the government of Canada.”

“We talked about the security posture currently at the border that we believe to be effective, and we also discussed additional measures and visible measures that we’re going to put in place over the coming weeks,” LeBlanc continued. “And we also established, Rosemary, a personal series of rapport that I think will continue to allow us to make that case.”

The Daily Caller News Foundation reports the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is preparing to beef up its immigration enforcement capabilities by hiring more staff, adding more vehicles and creating more processing facilities, in the chance that there is an immigration surge sparked by Trump’s presidential election victory. The moves are a change in direction from Trudeau’s public declaration in January 2017 that Canada was a “welcoming” country and that “diversity is our strength” just days after Trump was sworn into office the first time.

The Daily Caller notes the differences in response from the Canadian government verses Mexico’s:

Trudeau’s recent overtures largely differ from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has indicated she is not willing to bend the knee to Trump’s tariff threats. The Mexican leader in November said “there will be a response in kind” to any tariff levied on Mexican goods going into the U.S., and she appeared to deny the president-elect’s claims that she agreed to do more to beef up border security in a recent phone call.