As of: March 6, 2024, 3:57 p.m
By: Alexandra Heidsiek
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Trump wins states, but not hearts.
Many Republicans are uncomfortable with his ideas.
There is also a lack of euphoria among occasional voters.
Washington, DC – With a clear victory in the US primaries on Super Tuesday, Donald Trump has won the race for the Republican nomination.
His last remaining competitor, Nikki Haley, withdrew from the election campaign on Wednesday (March 6).
But the former President of the United States is not as popular as he seems.
At least that's what the American news magazine
Newsweek analyzes.
Trump can hardly gather a clear majority behind him
On the one hand, Trump was able to win most of the states on election day - but not all: Haley, who had previously emerged victorious in Washington, won in Vermont.
In many other states, Trump's victory was anything but a landslide.
Hailey was able to win more than a third of the votes in Massachusetts and Colorado.
According to a survey by the American television network NBC, between 33 and 36 percent of Republicans in Virginia, California, the Carolinas and Minnesota also said they did not necessarily want to support the current candidate.
This is at least a clear warning signal to Trump, according to
Newsweek
.
No reason to let your guard down: Trump is quite unpopular, but he is ahead in the US election.
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On the other hand, there is a large group within the Republican Party that categorically rejects another Trump presidency.
After all, according to recent polls by
FiveThirtyEight
, almost a fifth of Republicans have a negative attitude towards their presidential candidate;
Overall, it is over half of the Americans surveyed.
According to Newsweek
, enthusiasm among first-time and occasional voters
to vote for Trump in November is also significantly lower in these US elections than in 2020.
Donald Trump's program for the US election holds out the prospect of many strange projects
In addition, most of the measures Trump promises to implement during his second term in office are unpopular.
The
Washington Post
examined approval of all the promises.
Accordingly, the proposals that neither Democrats nor Republicans support include the abolition of the Department of Education, the establishment of tent cities for the homeless and the reversal of the transport transition.
Only four of his ideas received positive feedback, including a ban on hormone and surgical treatments for trans people.
Forecasts currently see the billionaire, who has been accused of, among other things, sexual harassment and election interference, ahead of his Democratic rival Joe Biden - but only just.
Biden's candidacy has not yet been determined.
The incumbent president has no significant challengers within his party.
In 2024 there will likely be a repeat of the US elections from four years ago.
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