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TRUMP’S RIVALS CAMPAIGN MUCH MORE THAN HE DOES, WITH LITTLE PAYOFF

Some of Donald J. Trump’s competitors are lapping him in the number of days on
the trail, but he remains solidly the Republican front-runner for 2024.

By K.K. Rebecca Lai, Alyce McFadden and Neil Vigdor Dec. 6, 2023

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Polling averageDays campaigningTrump59.8%55
daysDeSantis1379Haley10.587Ramaswamy5.1145Christie2.935Hutchinson0.584

Source: FiveThirtyEight (polling averages)

Note: Data is as of Dec. 6.

In the 2024 Republican primary race for the White House, money matters. Polling,
too. Viral debate moments. Endorsements. But one other ingredient has been
helping to make this a race unlike any other: the road.

Many of Donald J. Trump’s rivals have far outpaced him campaigning, in terms of
days spent on the trail. But their prolific campaigning has not shifted the
dynamics of the race or the polls, which Mr. Trump continues to dominate. An
analysis by The New York Times shows that who’s on top and who’s at the bottom
of the polls is out of sync with who’s been hitting the campaign trail the
hardest. As the Republican front-runner, Mr. Trump has been one of the most
uneven campaigners, while one of the biggest long shots has been the busiest.

Mr. Trump has spent less than half the number of days campaigning as Vivek
Ramaswamy, the Trumpian entrepreneur who has spent the most days campaigning.


VIVEK RAMASWAMY

Days campaigning 145
Polling average 5.1%
Iowa 59 N.H. 40 S.C. 9 Fla. 8 D.C. 5 Texas 2 Mich. 5 Calif. 2 Ga. 2 Pa. 3 Ohio 8
Wis. 2 N.Y. 2 Ind. 1 Tenn. 2 Conn. 1 Md. 2 Ill. 2 Ala. 1 Ky. 1


DONALD J. TRUMP

Days campaigning 55
Polling average 59.8%
Iowa 16 N.H. 8 S.C. 5 Fla. 8 D.C. 3 Texas 3 Mich. 2 Calif. 1 Nev. 2 Ga. 1 Pa. 2
Ohio 1 N.J. 2 Ind. 1 N.C. 1 Ala. 1 S.D. 1

The Times spent more than a year tracking the candidates and their planned
events across the country and in the early voting states. The analysis counted
the number of days spent campaigning rather than individual appearances. So if a
candidate made six appearances on the same day, those appearances counted as a
single day.

As of Tuesday, Mr. Trump had logged 55 days of campaigning, compared with 145
days by Mr. Ramaswamy. No candidate has blanketed the map more than Mr.
Ramaswamy, the first millennial Republican to run for president. While he has
racked up 100 days in Iowa and New Hampshire, Mr. Ramaswamy has also charted
more of a national footprint, visiting Kentucky, Illinois, Maryland and other
states that some of his rivals have bypassed.


NIKKI HALEY

Days campaigning 87
Polling average 10.5%
Iowa 30 N.H. 28 S.C. 12 Fla. 2 D.C. 4 Texas 2 Calif. 1 Nev. 1 Ga. 1 Pa. 1 Wis. 1
N.J. 2 Va. 3 Okla. 1 Conn. 1

Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, spent 87 days campaigning, the
second-highest total of the top Republican contenders. Ms. Haley has spent 70 of
those days in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, her home state. Rivaling
her schedule is that of Asa Hutchinson, the former Arkansas governor, who has
spent 84 days campaigning but who has failed to qualify for recent debates and
is at less than 1 percent in the polls.


RON DESANTIS

Days campaigning 79
Polling average 13%
Iowa 33 N.H. 15 S.C. 8 Fla. 4 D.C. 4 Texas 2 Calif. 3 Nev. 3 Ga. 2 Pa. 1 Wis. 1
N.Y. 1 Ind. 1 Tenn. 1 N.C. 1 Okla. 1 Ariz. 1 Utah 1

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has dropped in national polls, a slide often cited
by his skeptics. His standard reply to them has been, in effect: Wait until
Iowa. His campaign announced on Saturday that he had visited all 99 counties of
Iowa, where The Times found that he had spent 28 of his 79 total days of
campaigning. His schedule stands out in another way — for breaking campaign
norms. His super PAC, Never Back Down, coordinated at least 35 of his total days
on the trail, handling the kind of logistics that are traditionally the work not
of outside groups but of campaigns themselves and that are testing campaign
finance laws.


CHRIS CHRISTIE

Days campaigning 35
Polling average 2.9%
N.H. 22 S.C. 3 Fla. 3 D.C. 2 Calif. 1 Nev. 1 Ga. 1 Wis. 1 N.Y. 1

Chris Christie, a former New Jersey governor and Trump critic, has all but
written off Iowa and its more conservative electorate, one that remains fiercely
loyal to the 45th president. He has concentrated instead on New Hampshire,
spending 22 of his 35 total days of campaigning there, as he searches for
momentum with independent-minded Republicans in the state.



Additional work by Leanne Abraham and Susan Beachy.


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