Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders might be getting lots of media attention as the battle for their party’s presidential nomination is slowly heating up, but voters in Iowa appear to be solidly behind President Donald Trump for November, Fox News informed.
Trump is ahead of Biden by 10 percentage points (51-41) and leads Sanders 53 percent to 41 percent in Des Moines Register/Mediacom survey results published Thursday.
The same poll, conducted March 2-5, also revealed that Trump’s approval rating in Iowa is 50 percent, which is his highest ever in the Hawkeye State, according to the Register.
The President’s strongest support in Iowa was among Republicans (94 percent), rural Iowans (68 percent), evangelicals (63 percent), men (60 percent), and those with annual income of $100,000 or greater (57 percent).
Iowans gave their support to Barack Obama for president in 2008 and 2012 but they chose Trump in 2016 over Hillary Clinton, supporting the New York businessman by a greater margin than traditionally conservative states such as Texas, The Hill reported.
Trump won Iowa by 9.5 percentage points over Clinton in 2016, according to the Associated Press. Republicans control the governor’s office, the Statehouse and both U.S. Senate seats there.
In the Iowa caucuses held Feb. 3, Sanders finished second, slightly behind former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, 26.2 percent-26.1 percent.
Biden finished in fourth place with 15.8 percent of the vote – but has since surged in the Democratic race with a series of primary victories.
On the Republican side, President Trump won handily, with 97.1 percent of the vote, over former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld and former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois, who ended his campaign soon after.
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