Trump’s Iowa lead grows to largest EVER in Republican primary at 51% – as DeSantis trails 32 points with just five weeks until caucuses

Donald Trump leads the Iowa caucuses polls with his largest lead in history, leading the rest of the Republican primary by at least 32 points, with less than 30 days left until the start of the caucuses.

The former president has 51 percent support in the Hawkeye State, according to the agency. Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Poll released Monday and held Dec. 2-7.

Meanwhile, second-place Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has just 19 percent, and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley trails even further with 16 percent ahead of the caucuses.

Iowa is the first state to hold its caucus primary on January 15, followed by the New Hampshire primary just two weeks later on January 23.

Trump consistently led in primary elections in all states, as well as nationally.

A new Iowa poll shows Donald Trump with his biggest lead in polling history this close to the caucuses.

The 32-point lead in the latest Iowa poll is “the largest recorded so close to a competitive Republican caucus in the history of the Iowa poll,” NBC News notes.

The next closest polling lead over Trump in Iowa in Des Moines was in 2000, when George W. Bush led Steve Forbes by 27 points, according to NBC’s Steve Kornacki.

Bush won Iowa, the nomination and the presidency.

Beyond the primaries, Trump is also ahead of incumbent President Joe Biden in general election polls in some battleground states from late November to early December. Hypothetical 2020 rematch CNN/SSRS Poll shows Trump leading Biden in Michigan by 10 percentage points and in Georgia by 5 percentage points.

Both states, which flipped blue in 2020 from red in 2016, played key roles in Biden’s Electoral College victory over Trump and are vital to either of them winning in 2024.

Notably, Trump’s lead in Michigan is supported by many people who say they did not vote in the 2020 election.

Despite an early surge in polls after the first few Republican presidential primary debates, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is struggling to gain much momentum in Iowa, with just 5 percent support in the latest Iowa results.

Trump will enter the caucuses in five weeks with a huge lead after crushing the still thinning Republican primary in every single national and state poll.

Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old millionaire and father of two, is aiming to surpass the “full Grassley” twice, visiting all 99 Iowa counties twice before the Caucasus.

DeSantis accomplished the feat, named after Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, one day earlier this month.

In October, DeSantis and Haley were tied at 16 percent, but the Florida governor gained 3 percentage points to move her into second place with 19 percent.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is in fifth place with 4 percent, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is in sixth place with 1 percent. Both former governors are the most anti-Trump candidates in the race.

Christie has called out Trump at every debate so far, but Hutchinson only qualified for the first debate in Milwaukee this summer.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) decided to stop hosting debates after holding four debates that Trump did not attend from August to December.

But CNN is preparing to host the Republican primary debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, just six days before the caucuses. The network will also host debates in New Hampshire ahead of the election there.

It remains unlikely that Trump will enter the debate arguing that the showdown is beneath him as he maintains a huge lead over the remaining field, which is still thinning out.