With not quite four weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, that first-in-the-nation presidential election indicator, former President Donald Trump appears to be holding a comfortable, maybe even overwhelming lead in the polls. On Wednesday, a new Emerson poll has him holding a comfortable 50 percent support among Iowa caucus voters.
A new Emerson College Polling Iowa survey finds half (50%) of Republican caucus voters support former President Donald Trump, while 17% support Nikki Haley, and 15% support Ron DeSantis with under a month until the Iowa Caucus. Eight percent support Vivek Ramaswamy, and 4% support Chris Christie. Six percent are undecided. Since the September Emerson Iowa poll, Trump, DeSantis, and Ramaswamy’s support has increased one percentage point each, while Haley’s support has increased ten points.
A deeper dive into the numbers, though, is worth doing. While…