{"id":233296,"date":"2026-05-15T03:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-support-weakening-but-fragmented-opposition-could-hand-him-2027-lifeline-poll\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:13:12","slug":"kenya-ruto-support-weakening-but-fragmented-opposition-could-hand-him-2027-lifeline-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-support-weakening-but-fragmented-opposition-could-hand-him-2027-lifeline-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Support Weakening but Fragmented Opposition Could Hand Him 2027 Lifeline &#8211; Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto&#8217;s political dominance appears to be weakening ahead of the 2027 General Election, but a deeply fragmented opposition could still hand him a second term, according to a new national survey by TIFA Research.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The poll shows Ruto remains the single most preferred presidential candidate at 24 per cent, but the figure underscores his vulnerability, with three-quarters of Kenyans currently backing other candidates or remaining undecided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The opposition vote remains&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605140387.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto&#8217;s political dominance appears to be weakening ahead of the 2027 General Election, but a deeply fragmented opposition could still hand him a second term, according to a new national survey by TIFA Research. The poll shows Ruto remains the single most preferred presidential candidate at 24 per cent, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":233297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,45843,11851,4688,430,14266,257,5675,7517,11238,254,6096,32036],"class_list":["post-233296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fragmented","tag-hand","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-lifeline","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-poll","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-weakening"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}