Trump dominating Republican race

Former U.S. President Donald Trump remains far ahead of his nearest rivals in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, both in the polls and in campaign donations


2024 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
(Aug 22, 2023 poll average, %)
     
55.4		14.3		7.2		4		Others: 19.1
Donald Trump	Ron DeSantis	Vivek Ramaswamy Mike Pence


Candidates announce presidential run 

Nov 15	Feb 21		May 23		Jun 7
Trump 	Ramaswamy	DeSantis	Pence

CUMULATIVE WEEKLY DONATIONS  
($m, Oct 1, 2022 to Jun 30, 2023)

80 
70					
60
50
40 
30 
20 					
10
0
	Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 
	2022 		2023

Trump 
$72.6m

DeSantis
$17.2m

Ramaswamy
$3m

Pence
$0.9m
      
Trump’s war chest is over 300% larger than that of nearest rival, DeSantis

                   
Sources: Bloomberg, RealClearPolitics 
Pictures: Creative Commons, Getty
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