Trump hits all-time high support in 2024 cycle, polling average shows
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Former President Donald Trump has reached an all-time high of national support for the 2024 election cycle, according to the RealClearPolitics polling aggregate.
As of mid-September, Trump rests at an average national vote share of 45.6% while President Joe Biden has 45%, handing Trump a narrow 0.6% lead.
The 2024 general election tracking extends as far back as Nov. 1, 2022, a couple weeks before Trump officially jumped into the race.
Since this cycle’s poll tracking began, Trump previously peaked at 45.4% support.
Notably, poll tracking has shown Trump spiked in support from late-August, jumping from around 43% support to nearly 46% in just under a month. For the same time period, Biden has remained stable.
The spike began just around Aug. 25, the time when Trump had his historic mugshot taken in a Georgia criminal case against him.
Trump’s mug shot came out of Fulton County, where he faces 13 criminal charges relating to allegations of trying to overturn the 2020 election.
Those charges include conspiracies to commit false statements, file false documents, commit forgery and to impersonate a public officer, along with making false statements and writings, filing false documents, soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer, and violating Georgia racketeering law.
Trump’s Georgia arraignment involves his fourth indictment since leaving office.
The other indictments include two investigations from Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Jack Smith surrounding classified documents and the events of Jan. 6, 2021, along with charges from New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg surrounding alleged hush money payments to a porn star.
