Donald Trump Hits Record Lead, Support Among Republican Candidates For 2024 Election: Here Are The Details

Former President Donald Trump continued to lead the shrinking field of Republican presidential candidates ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Here's a look at the latest.

What Happened: Trump has dominated political headlines for months with an ongoing civil fraud lawsuit against the Trump Organization and a decision to skip the fourth Republican primary debate.

Despite multiple courtroom appearances and a calendar full of court dates alongside his 2024 presidential campaign, Republican voters appeared to be unphased by Trump's legal challenges.

The former president continued to be backed by a majority of Republican voters and was the odds-on favorite to win his party's nomination for the 2024 presidential election, barring any future setbacks or surges from rival opponents.

The latest Morning Consult poll of GOP voters showed Trump with a comfortable 54-point lead over his Republican opponents.

Here's a look at who Republican voters would vote for today, with the percentage from last week in parentheses.

Donald Trump: 67% (66%)

Ron DeSantis: 13% (13%)

Nikki Haley: 10% (10%)

Vivek Ramaswamy: 6% (6%)

Chris Christie: 3% (3%)

In the latest poll, Trump holds a 54-point lead, up from a 53-point lead last week and setting a new record since polling began in December.

Trump has continued to post leads of 50 points or more in recent weeks.

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Why It's Important: Trump's 67% support among Republican voters marks the largest percentage for the former president since polling began in December.

DeSantis, Haley, Ramaswamy and Christie all held steady with their percentage of votes from last week.

Of the voters who selected a candidate other than Trump as their preferred choice, 30% selected Trump as their second pick.

Recent polls from Morning Consult break down the Republican candidates in individual states, including the January caucus for the state of Iowa.

Here's a look at how Republican voters in the state of Iowa would vote today:

Donald Trump: 50%

Ron DeSantis: 18%

Vivek Ramaswamy: 13%

Nikki Haley: 10%

The latest poll saw Trump decline from 57% in October to 50% in November for the key state. The 50% support also marked the lowest monthly total for Trump for the state in 2023.

A poll from Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom for Iowa showed Trump topping the 50% level and gaining from the previous result.

The results of the poll are:

Donald Trump: 51%

Ron DeSantis: 19%

Nikki Haley: 16%

Vivek Ramaswamy: 5%

Chris Christie: 4%

In that poll, Trump gained eight percentage points from the previous poll for the state. DeSantis also gained three percentage points from the last poll, breaking a tie with Haley to move back into second place by himself.

Several candidates dropped out of the Republican presidential race, which only minimally boosted any non-Trump candidate.

"The field may have shrunk, but it may have made Donald Trump even stronger than he was," pollster J. Ann Selzer said. "I would call his lead commanding at this point."

Selzer's company helped conduct the Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom poll.

Trump's lead at 50% in Iowa in the Morning Consult poll was one of his smallest of the states tracked by the polling company. Most states saw Trump with 60% of the vote or more, including a couple of states (Kentucky, Louisiana), where he had more than 70% of the vote.

The state of Florida, which is the home of both Gov. DeSantis and Trump, watched Trump gain steadily in recent months. Trump previously trailed DeSantis in the state 42% to 47% back in December 2022.

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