Cor Strategies Releases Poll Results Which Show Illinoisans’ Preferred Candidates and Whether They Would Support Gov Pritzker Running for President
Illinois political experts Cor Strategies released the first Illinois presidential poll following last week’s first Republican Presidential Debate on Live from the Lincoln Desk today.
Headlining the poll results, 81% of Democrats say they will vote to nominate Joe Biden and 53% of Republicans support Donald Trump. Trump does slightly worse in the head-to-head matchup than the next Republican candidate, DeSantis: Biden holds a 20-point lead (55%-35%) over Trump but that lead slips nearly 2 points if his opponent is DeSantis (53%-35%).
“Republicans aren’t winning the presidential race in Illinois,” said Cor Strategies founder Collin Corbett. “But an improvement at the top of the ticket would help our candidates down ballot in November of 2024. In this poll we saw a Republican nominee not named Trump improve the Republican numbers by 4-5% among Independents, 5% among moderates, and 7% among Hispanics. That swing would be significant in battleground congressional, legislative, and judicial districts.”
The poll drilled down a level further, asking Republicans and Democrats who they would support if Trump and Biden were not in the running. For Republicans, 26% would nominate Ron DeSantis, followed by Vivek Ramaswamy (16%), Mike Pence (10%) and Nikki Haley (10%). On the Democratic side, Kamala Harris (28%) is the leading choice, followed by JB Pritzker (14%), Stacey Abrams (9%) and Bernie Sanders (9%).
“At this point, it seems to be a matter of ‘when’ Pritzker will run for president rather than ‘if,’ so we asked Democrats and Independents what they think about him running at some point in the future, and the results are interesting,” said Corbett. “Pritzker has done a great job courting progressives, and as a result 72% of Illinois Democrats support him running for president. But appeasing the far left comes at a cost, and you see that in these numbers: Independents strongly oppose him running (15% support to 60% opposition).”
For an in-depth analysis of this poll, including a deep dive into the demographic splits for the results, watch Collin Corbett analyze the results on Live from the Lincoln Desk here. And click here for a pdf of the poll results.
