Trump leading big in Georgia after landslide Iowa win

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - On the heels of a major Iowa caucus win, former President Donald Trump has a 45% to 37% lead over the man who ousted him from the White House in 2020, incumbent Joe Biden.

A new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Tuesday morning also showed almost 20% of Georgians aren’t ready to Trump or Biden.

The poll was conducted Jan. 3-11 by the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs, involved 1,007 ed voters and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.

Trump’s Georgia ers hailed his landslide victory in Monday night’s nationally watched Iowa caucuses.

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Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, one of the electors who attempted to falsely certify Georgia’s 2020 presidential election for Trump, posted on X (formerly known as Twitter):

“Congratulations to President Trump on a huge win in Iowa last night! The party is coming together behind the best candidate to beat @JoeBiden and save our country from the radical Democrats and their disastrous agenda.”

“Georgia is Trump Country!!” exclaimed Debbie Dooley, co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party, also on X.

The AJC poll found soft levels of for Biden among Democrats and independents, groups that, in 2020, helped him become the first Democrat since Bill Clinton in 1992 to carry Georgia in a presidential race.

Biden is hurt by soft , according to the poll, among many Democratic and independent voters who were crucial to his narrow 2020 victory over Trump in Georgia, including 10% of Black voters who say they don’t plan to vote in the White House race at all.

On the other side, nearly one-fifth of Republicans polled by the AJC say they aren’t ing Trump or are undecided.

In Georgia, Trump is facing several organized crime-like indictments from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Willis’ indictments say Trump and his allies suggested Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, could find enough votes for him to win the battleground state; harassed an election worker who faced false claims of fraud; and attempted to persuade Georgia lawmakers to ignore the will of voters and appoint a new slate of electors favorable to Trump.

Trump is charged alongside several others — including Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows — with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law by scheming to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss.

One of the 19 people charged in Willis’ indictment is Michael Roman, a former White House aide who served as the director of Trump’s election day operations. Prosecutors allege Roman was involved in efforts to put forth a set of fake electors after the 2020 election, a charge to which Roman has pleaded not guilty.

Last week, Roman and his attorney Ashleigh Merchant accused Willis of having a “personal, romantic relationship” with Wade. Roman also claims Willis and Wade benefited financially from the alleged relationship.

On Sunday, Willis made her first public comments since the accusations, speaking at Atlanta’s oldest black church, Big Bethel AME. B Willis never confirmed or denied the accusations, or mentioned Wade by name.