Regardless of the thousands of lawsuits against former President Donald Trump (and the onslaught of perpetual bad press against him), he’s still leading the polls to be the Republican presidential nominee in Michigan.

In a landslide.

A new Mitchell Research and Communications poll that was commissioned by MIRS was done July 11th through the 13th, surveying Michigan registered voters entirely by text messaging voter’s cell phones and sending them to a SurveyMonkey site to answer questions. 96% of the voters said they would be “definitely voting” in the November 2024 election and 87% planned on voting in the primary.

38% of the respondents were Democrat, 38% Republican and 22% were independents.

The poll shows that Trump received 69% support from Republican Michiganders who are planning to vote for him. His closest competitor, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has 13% support. Undecideds made up the next highest percentage with 11%. Pence, Scott, and Haley got 3%, 2% and 1% respectively with presidential candidate Perry Johnson, who is actually a Michigan resident getting zero support.

The survey also shows that Trump and Biden are basically neck and neck when up against each other for round two in the presidential match-up, with Biden getting 45% support and Trump receiving 43%.

Steve Mitchell, CEO of Mitchell Research & Communications, said in a news release, “It is clear that Biden and Trump are both very strong among their partisan supporters. Both are getting close to three-fourths of the vote in their partisan primary which is even stronger than the leads both have in national polling. Since Michigan is the fifth or sixth state holding a Presidential Primary, it is very difficult to see a scenario where either loses the primary in Michigan.”

FiveThirtyEight analyzed 76 polls that Mitchell has done and found that 70% of the races were called correctly.