President Donald Trump annihilates all of his Republican rivals in a hypothetical 2028 primary race.
In a new Daily Mail/J.L. Partners survey marking Trump’s first 100 days, pollsters also looked ahead to the next presidential race.
Republican respondents were told to presume that Trump’s Constitutional hurdles of getting on the ballot again had been cleared to see if there was an appetite for a third Trump time.
A whopping 39 percent said Trump would be their first choice, followed by 19 percent who selected Vice President J.D. Vance.
After that, failed 2024 candidates, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley garnered 6 percent and 4 percent support, respectively.
Trump’s current Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who ran for president in the 2016 GOP primary, received support from 3 percent of Republicans.
As did Trump’s 2024 primary rival Vivek Ramaswamy, who exited DOGE early to focus on an Ohio gubernatorial run.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Virginia’s term-limited Gov. Glenn Youngkin received support from 2 percent of respondents.
President Donald Trump blows away the opposition when Republicans are asked who they want as their nominee in 2028. The only problem? The Constitution currently forbids presidents from serving more than two terms
Other potential GOP hopefuls got 1 percent support or below including Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, longtime Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and New York Rep. Elise Stefanik.
Without Trump in the equation, Vance dominates the 2028 GOP primary, the new polling found.
Forty-eight percent of Republicans chose Vance to be the GOP nominee, followed by just 8 percent who selected DeSantis.
After that, 5 percent said Rubio and Haley, 4 percent said Cruz – who ran against Trump in the 2016 primary – 3 percent said Ramaswamy and 2 percent said Scott.
Even with an actual Trump in the race, GOP voters currently back Vance.
If Donald Trump Jr. were to throw his hat in, Vance still gets 40 percent of the GOP primary vote, while Trump Jr. sucks up 11 percent.
In that scenario, DeSantis earned 10 percent of the GOP primary vote, while every other candidate got 5 percent or below.
Polling took place between April 23 and 28 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percent.
Vice President J.D. Vance (left) appears to be the heir apparent of the MAGA movement, getting the support of 48 percent of Republicans in the 2028 GOP primary race, while failed candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (right) gets just 8 percent
Even with a Trump in the race – Donald Trump Jr. (pictured) Republican primary voters were more keen to see Vice President J.D. Vance as the party’s 2028 presidential nominee, new polling found
Trump is barred from running again due to the 22nd Amendment in the U.S. Constitution.
Republicans could try and amend the Constitution again to allow presidents to serve more than two terms, as one pro-MAGA congressman has suggested – but there’s an extremely high bar to do such a thing.
The amendment would need to be proposed by either two-third of both houses of Congress or by a national convention called by two-third of the states.
And then the proposal would need to be ratified by three-fourths of the states – either by their legislatures or by special conventions.
Still the ‘Trump 2028’ chatter hasn’t gone away.
Last week the Trump store launched a ‘Trump 2028’ hat for $50 a piece, which could be looked at as a serious push to change the rules, or a way to troll the president’s liberal detractors.
