{"id":1966,"date":"2023-12-12T00:28:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T00:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2023-12-12T00:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T00:29:34","slug":"trump-surges-in-iowa-strengthening-historic-lead-new-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/trump-surges-in-iowa-strengthening-historic-lead-new-poll-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump surges in Iowa, strengthening historic lead, new poll shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With 35 days until the Iowa caucuses, former President Trump has expanded his lead to 51% first-choice support among likely caucusgoers, according to a poll out Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why it matters: <\/strong>Trump&#8217;s lead is the biggest recorded this close to a competitive Republican caucus in the poll&#8217;s history, per NBC News, which conducted the survey with the Des Moines Register and Mediacom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Driving the news:<\/strong> The poll \u2014 which surveyed more than 500 likely GOP caucusgoers earlier this month \u2014 showed Trump surging by eight percentage points, compared to October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Between the lines:<\/strong> Trump&#8217;s lead is fueled by majorities of evangelical and first-time likely caucusgoers, NBC reports, &#8220;as well as by nearly three-quarters of Republicans who believe Trump can defeat President Joe Biden next year despite the legal challenges the former president faces.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 35 days until the Iowa caucuses, former President Trump has expanded his lead to<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/trump-surges-in-iowa-strengthening-historic-lead-new-poll-shows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump surges in Iowa, strengthening historic lead, new poll shows<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}