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Steve Bannon marked Thanksgiving with a message to his supporters on Gettr, a conservative social media platform, where he wrote that Donald Trump will win the election next year.
"Trump won, Trump will win again," the right-wing media personality and former White House strategist wrote on Gettr late on Thursday. The post included a link to an article from The Hill reporting that Trump "tops Biden in polls despite mountain of baggage."
It's not clear if Bannon meant that Trump previously won the 2016 election, or whether he was supporting debunked claims that the former president won the 2020 election. Newsweek contacted his show, War Room, for comment by email on Friday.
Despite Trump facing multiple criminal and federal cases, two of which are linked to his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election won by Joe Biden, the former president is the frontrunner in the Republican primary by a significant margin.
As of November 22, Trump had 60.3 percent of the Republican primary vote, according to FiveThirtyEight, while his immediate rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, trailed him with 12.6 percent of the vote.
In a recent poll by The New York Times and Siena College, Trump was leading Biden in five out of six battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. In these five states, voters said they trusted Trump over Biden on tackling issues surrounding the U.S. economy, immigration and foreign policy.
Biden was ahead only in the state of Washington, where he had an advantage of 2 percentage points. Trump's advantage over Biden was 10 percentage points in Nevada, 6 percentage points in Georgia, 5 percentage points in Michigan and Arizona, and 4 percentage points in Pennsylvania. The poll was conducted between October 22 and November 3.
Trump is facing 91 felony counts across four criminal cases, one of which could lead him to lose his business license in the state of New York.
While it remains to be seen how Americans will vote in a year's time, other recent polls have shown that voters seem willing to close an eye to Trump's legal troubles and give him another chance at the White House.
An NBC poll published last Sunday showed that Biden's popularity has declined to the lowest level of his presidency—40 percent—and that Trump was leading the Democrats 46 to 44 percent among registered voters. Another poll released this week by Yahoo News/YouGov found Trump ahead with 44 percent of the vote over Biden's 42 percent—the same margin as the NBC poll.
Another poll released this week by Quinnipiac University gave the Republican 48 percent of the vote compared to Biden's 46 percent.
The 2024 election is likely to be a rematch of the 2020 race between Biden and Trump, though many American voters—according to the Quinnipiac University's poll, a majority of 52 percent—would rather see other candidates running.
Age has been an issue for both candidates, though significantly more for Biden. The Democratic president has recently turned 81 and would be 86 at the end of a second term if reelected. By Election Day next year, Trump would be 78.
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Giulia Carbonaro is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on the U.S. economy, housing market, property ... Read more