Vivek Ramaswamy now 2nd in Republican presidential race, simply behind Trump

An Indian-origin entrepreneur and the Republican Party’s youngest presidential hopeful, Vivek Ramaswamy, is now within the second spot within the Republican presidential race. Former President Donald Trump is within the first place because the latter holds a large lead within the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination in New Hampshire, in keeping with a brand new University of New Hampshire ballot.

However, it’s a detailed contest for second place amongst 4 candidates searching for to achieve traction as a substitute for the front-runner — Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, Chris Christie and Ron DeSantis.

Donald Trump continues to be the primary selection of 39 per cent of seemingly GOP main voters within the first-in-the-nation main state, CNN reported.

Vivek Ramaswamy is subsequent to Trump with 13 per cent assist, carefully adopted by Haley at 12 per cent and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie at 11 per cent. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who stood out as Trump’s chief rival within the final UNH survey on the New Hampshire race in July, has dropped 13 factors since then to 10 per cent assist.

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott is at 6 per cent assist within the ballot and former Vice President Mike Pence holds 2 per cent.

According to the CNN ballot, Ramaswamy’s improve is concentrated extra amongst those that are usually not registered Republicans and amongst youthful seemingly voters (he is up 28 factors amongst these youthful than 35 and 11 factors amongst these within the 35-49 age group whereas holding about even amongst these aged 50 or above), reported information company PTI.

The ballot suggests a large share of voters is open to altering their minds between now and the first

The ballot additionally means that there are broad variations between Trump backers and people supporting different candidates on what they’d wish to see in a Republican candidate for president, the problems which might be most vital to them and on a number of coverage proposals which have been outstanding in the course of the Republican main marketing campaign.

Those seemingly main voters who are usually not backing Trump broadly say they prioritize the economic system as the highest concern in making their choice about whom to assist, with far fewer pointing to immigration.

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Edited By:

Manisha Pandey

Published On:

Sep 22, 2023