Trump is so far ahead of his rivals they aren't rivals

It's still about a year way from the moment when the Republican party will nominate its candidate to stand in the November 2024 presidential election. The Republican National Convention will meet in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from July 15-18, to choose their nominee to take on Joe Biden. But the polls are unwavering. Donald Trump, despite facing multiple crimimal indictments and the possibiity of a prison sentence, is so far head in the latest polling figures that it seems a total waste of time and money for anyone else to consider carrying on contending for the nomination. The figures published in The New York Times say Trump has 54 per cent of the vote and the second place has only 17 per cent. That's Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who attracted massive publicity not that long ago as the man most likely to unseat Trump. Judging by his campaign so far he has absolutely no chance of doing that. As for the rest, no candidate has more than three per cent of the vote according to the poll. Chris Christie, the most bumptious and outspoken of the candidates who has been more critical of Trump than any of the others is right at the bottom on just two per cent which should tell him a lot. Criticise Trump and you get shafted. The Times/Sienna poll makes devastating reading for all the also-running. There's a year to go but does anyone honestly believe the poll ratings are going to change sigificantly. Trump is on a roll to the nomination and no one can stop him. Not even the US Justice Department I suspect.