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2024 ELECTION: Mike Pence Officially Announces White House Run
Mike Pences' Chances of Beating Donald Trump, According to Polls
BBC 6 JUNE 2023
Former Vice President Mike Pence is officially entering the race for the Republican presidential nomination, setting him up for a head-to-head collision with former running mate Donald Trump and several other White House hopefuls who see themselves as the heirs of the conservative movement Trump helped to stoke more than five years ago.
If early poll numbers are to be believed, Pence has much work to do to make space for himself in what is becoming an increasingly saturated field that has already faced challenges contrasting their positions with those of the former president.
In addition to former administration officials like onetime U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the field, Pence will also have to pitch himself as a viable alternative to candidates like South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, and millionaire Vivek Ramaswamy. All support policies that largely represent the boilerplate issues embraced by Republican voters: strict laws on abortion, tight oversight of the border and the rejection of an American culture "gone woke."
But beyond the others in the race, Pence will also have to craft a pitch to voters that can steal support not only from Trump but candidates like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whom polling shows to be the most viable direct challenger to Trump at this early juncture in the race....
If early poll numbers are to be believed, Pence has much work to do to make space for himself in what is becoming an increasingly saturated field that has already faced challenges contrasting their positions with those of the former president.
Even with the stature afforded Pence as vice president, the numbers aren't too optimistic. Across all polls—conservative-biased, liberal-biased, or right down the middle—Trump is, by and large, the leader of the Republican field, with numbers showing support from more than 50 percent of likely voters in the GOP primary.
Out of the remaining half of the field, DeSantis is routinely the only candidate earning a double-digit percentage of the vote, with the support of roughly one-fifth of the Republican electorate according to polling averages compiled by aggregators like FiveThirtyEight, Real Clear Politics, and Race to the White House.
But at this point, that's not much: in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, a May 25-30 YouGov/Yahoo News poll found DeSantis would lose to Trump by approximately 24 points in a one-on-one primary, while Pence—regularly the third-leading candidate in most polls with a weighted percentage of 5 percent across the entire field—would lose to Trump by nearly 60 percentage points.
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