Iowa poll: Trump maintains GOP lead with 51 percent support

With five weeks until the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump continues to gain support in Iowa while Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley battle for second place, according to an NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll released Monday.

The former president’s support grew in the state with 51 percent of likely Republican caucusgoers picking Trump as their first choice for president, an uptick from 43 percent in an Iowa October Poll. Trump’s lead is the largest recorded at this point in the race in this Iowa poll’s history, according to NBC News.