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Former President Donald Trump got some more good news in the form of a new poll after Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris.
According to the CNN survey, 49 percent of respondents supported Trump, while 46 percent backed Harris. SSRS conducted the poll. The poll was conducted among registered voters who had previously participated in CNN surveys in April and June, where Trump was leading Biden by 6 points.
According to Newsmax, the poll found:
- 64% said Republicans have a better chance of winning the presidency in 2024 if Trump is the party’s nominee.
- 50% said their vote is more in support of Harris than against Trump, compared to 37% of Biden’s supporters who said their vote was mainly to express support for the president.
- 74% said their vote is to express support for Trump rather than their opposition to Harris.
- Among Harris supporters younger than 45, 43% say their vote is more in support of her than against Trump, up from 28% of Biden voters in that age group who felt the same way about the president in June.
- Democrats and Democrat-leaning voters are split over whether the next nominee should continue Biden’s policies (53%) or take the country in a new direction (47%).
- 88% of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters say Republicans have a better chance to win with Trump at the top of the ticket.
The polling comes just a few weeks after Trump was nearly assassinated during a rally in Butler, Pa., which led to new criticisms of the Secret Service.
Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall hammered the agency over “systemic failures” that he says contributed to the assassination attempt. He is now calling for a “crisis intervention team” to address and rectify issues within the agency.
“We don’t have to wait 44 months to realize that the Secret Service has a huge cultural problem — There needs to be an intervention team to come in there, take it over and make sure President Trump is safe and secure,” he told Newsmax this week.
In a separate interview with the Fox Business Network, Marshall also criticized the FBI and said that a growing number of Americans do not trust either agency after a Senate hearing this week featured high-ranking officials from both agencies who were grilled about the security failures ahead of the assassination attempt.
“What I would share with you is that folks back home don’t trust the FBI. They have no faith or competence in the Secret Service right now. And this hearing did nothing to relieve those fears that the Secret Service has significant institutional problems, cultural issues within it. And that’s why they need a big change. We need somebody to come in there, a crisis intervention team,” he told the network.
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“And I’m just telling you, there’s nothing that this Secret Service director is gonna be able to do right now. He cannot see the forest for the trees that he’s not objective. He’s trying to protect everybody’s job. People should be at least placed on leave until we get to the bottom of it,” Marshall continued.
“He would not tell us who was responsible for denying President Trump more security, he wouldn’t tell us who makes the decisions to say no, we’re not going to use a drone. He would not say who drew this security line and left 10 buildings within the direct line of the president,” the Kansas Republican continued.
“So even within days, a normal post-mortem on a event like this should reveal those basic stops to say, here’s where the basic mistakes were, these are the people that we’ve relieved of their duty, we’ve made these corrections to protect President Trump at the next rally,” he said.
“He [Secret Service Acting Director Rowe] did deflect the blame to the local police, and my specific question for him was, did the Secret Service hold their meeting that morning with local police? Local police officers said that meeting never happened. I did not get a direct answer from the acting director. And he says on the one hand that he wants to cooperate with investigations, but he’s not taking full accountability,” he said.
