One in three Republicans now think Donald Trump was wrong candidate choice
One in three Republicans now think Donald Trump was wrong candidate choice
A new poll has revealed changing attitudes to Trump from his Republican supporters.
One in three Republican voters would have preferred a different candidate to Donald Trump for the upcoming presidential election.
In March, the former president won enough primary races to secure the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election.
However, according to a survey of 1,003 Americans by Canadian polling firm Leger, Trump does not command the full support of his base and 33 percent of this demographic would have preferred another politician. Meanwhile, this proportion is higher (47 percent) among Republican voters aged 18 to 34 years old.
3 out of 3 will probably vote for trump in the general election.
Yup, exactly. That's the question that actually matters. Tons of Republicans were very vocally against Trump in 2016 too, but fell in line as soon as he was named their official candidate. The Republican Party is great at unifying around candidates and messaging when it counts (probably one of their only legitimate strengths.)
Democrats fall in love. Republicans fall in line.
The problem with Democrats is that because it's a big tent, it's harder to coalesce around one or two issues. Some Democrats really care about the environment and won't come out to vote unless the candidate says they'll do right by it. Other Democrats care about prison reform and won't vote for a candidate that has a history of supporting laws that put more people into prison.
When the Republican platform is "At least we're not liberals", it's much easier to get your people out to vote.
Loyalty is their core attribute, like hand-wringing and second-guessing is for Democrats.
There was just another poll that said only 10% of Republican voters WONT vote for trump.
So that means 23% of Republican voters dont want trump but still will vote for him.
That also means 2/3 want him flat out.
As someone who's a registered Democrat who doesn't want to vote for Biden but will still vote for him, I feel their pain.
Nobody changes how they vote, but turnout might be more depressed among Republicans, in which case maybe only 1 in 3 will for for trump
But would it even make a difference? The Republicans haven't won the vote in about 2 decades, and in 2016, the Supreme Court said that the Electoral College doesn't have to vote the way that the voters that they represent voted when multiple representatives said that they were going to cast their votes for Trump despite Hillary winning the state.
Yep, even if he ends up in prison by some miracle.
Oh NOW they think that. It took until NOW to figure it out.
If they're still voting for him, being non preferred isn't exactly a damning opinion.
Party over country
They will still vote for him. They're Republicans for a reason.
Stop riding dead horses, uhm?
I've seen my parents abandon all the values they once claimed to have to follow that man. I don't have much respect for his followers' ability to snap out of it.
Hope I'm wrong.
Better headline: 2 out of 3 Republicans (the party of "Law and Order") support a candidate convicted of 34 felonies. And 3 out of 3 will still vote for him in the general election.
The original headline is just them saying I wish there was something better, but we got what we got. Which is the same thing I am saying on the left.
Doesn't matter. Get out and vote.
They'll vote for him anyway.
Some will, but some will also just not feel as engaged and stay home.
Real question is, how large a percentage of potential Trump voters will be demotivated enough to stay home, vs how many potential Biden voters are being turned off by his age and ball-less stance on the war crimes in Gaza.
Real question is, how will around 2000 people in the midwest vote? Cause that's what usually decides the outcome.
You get a president that does nothing to stop Isreal or a president who signs the bombs with an erection. Those are the choices. As always.
I really think Biden is secretly more popular with Republicans than individual Republicans let on. He hasn't spoken much on abortion and queer support (kind of like it belongs in the background unseen and then we will tolerate it mentality), he wants to lock down the US-Mexico border more, and is very Zionist. He's honestly a good fit for the Republicans before Trump "consolidated" the Republicans under a[n even] crazier branch of conservatism.
I think that's his "plan", whether it works or not we'll see.
The reality is, most "progressives", that are screaming about Gaza, etc. Are in deep blue states. Their votes don't matter in the electoral view. It's a total of like 3 states that are going to decide the presidency.
Which is one of many reasons our system sucks so bad...
In March, the former president won enough primary races to secure the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election.
However, according to a survey of 1,003 Americans by Canadian polling firm Leger, Trump does not command the full support of his base and 33 percent of this demographic would have preferred another politician.
Another way of writing that 33 percent prefer another politician is that 67 percent prefer Trump. Last I checked, 67 percent support is enough to secure the Republican nomination.
Meanwhile, this proportion is higher (47 percent) among Republican voters aged 18 to 34 years old.
Again, another way of writing this is that 53 percent of Republican voters aged 18 to 34 years old support Trump. I'll double check my arithmetic, but even this seems to be enough to win primaries.
With a title like "One in three Republicans now think Donald Trump was wrong candidate choice," I would expect to see a poll which showed that fewer than "One in three Republicans" used to "think Donald Trump was wrong candidate choice." That seems like a straightforward way to make the point this article is trying to make. Yet none is provided. Instead we are treated to some general electorate polling showing some minor fluctuation and some republicans who were already critical of Trump continuing to be critical of Trump.
The centrist will to make the Republicans look better than they are is so powerful.
Those numbers are worringly low. I have been assuming that the vocal group, the ones taking to the streets with their little hats and grumpy faces, were a very verbal minority. I'd expect way more than 1/3 to prefer some other candidate. Not great.
I don't know why. These numbers are better than I expected. The GOP has become a cult like organization. Those usually don't tolerate non believers.
I'm pretty sure 'thinking' never got in the way of them voting for him before.
Something about laying in a bed you made yourself...
*peeing
Vote for biden and get trump going to jail for free!!!
Maybe, just fucking maybe... enough will attrition off to Libertarian to split the vote.
Not while the libertarian candidate is gay.
It's a fair point but - counterpoint - libertarians are famously contrarian.
Maybe, but 2/3 is a majority.
Which means 2 out of 3 will gleefully vote for him with visible metaphorical (?) erections; the 1 out of 3 will maybe metaphorically cover up their metaphorical erections with a pillow...
Which means 2 out of 3 will gleefully vote for him
Listen, I don't like him any more than you do, but he's the only candidate who can beat Other Candidate, alright? If you don't want another four years of Disastrous Joe Brandon's Economy Killing Policies of Doom ruining our country with Woke, the only man who has consistently succeeded in Making America Great Again is the guy who won the primary.
the 1 out of 3 will maybe metaphorically cover up their metaphorical erections with a pillow…
They will be shamed into compliance by their MAGA neighbors, because if you're not voting for Trump then you must secretly support Biden. You need to prove that you aren't a soy transgender liberal pedophile or we won't invite you to the next wine cave fundraiser / good ole boy tailgate party / Epstein Island junket.
You're either with us or you're with the Terrorists.
The other two will threaten the first.
The first is married to one of the other two and will vote the way he does because Jesus.
The third is their offspring who has been raised on a steady diet of talk radio and fox news and knows exactly what is true and right and will vote republiQan accordingly.
How many had their choice made for them before they even had a chance to vote in a primary?
Nikki Haley was the last to drop out on March 6th, when there were still dozens of primaries to go.
I'd love to see a national primary. But people complain... But... but... it's not fair to small candidates who can't run a national campaign...
Yeah, if you can't run a national campaign, you have no business being President either.
If we're going to be proposing things that will never happen: Total public funding of elections, so everybody can run a national campaign if they get enough signatures.
That or we get a watery tart to lob a scimitar at someone.
meanwhile two of three republicans can still taste their colons.
when will these people pull their heads out of their asses?
But when all the choices are shit, go for the shittiest shit that ever shitted in shitstown.
LOL they'll certainly try another 1/6, but this time the place will be crawling with plainclothes feds, dozens of snipers (visible; even more out of sight), swat, MRAPs, helicopters, etc etc. and it would be dumb to assume they haven't installed more cameras with audio everywhere
One guy with a mounted machine gun at the top of the capitol stairs should be enough of a deterrent I would think.
Only if he uses it. They'll need some people dressed up as black people and vegetarians rushing the position to trick him.
Sounds like a lot until you consider the fact that 3/3 informed adult humans of sound mind absolutely despise him..
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In March, the former president won enough primary races to secure the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election.
However, according to a survey of 1,003 Americans by Canadian polling firm Leger, Trump does not command the full support of his base and 33 percent of this demographic would have preferred another politician.
Newsweek contacted a representative for Trump by email outside of business hours to comment on this story.
A similar pattern emerged in other states and Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate for the election and the incumbent president, has too been hit with protest votes in his own primary races.
Meanwhile, Trump has now been found guilty on all 34 counts in his high-profile hush money trial concerning payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Nevertheless, polls are still tight and when Trump and Biden face each other on November 5 in a rematch of the 2020 election, the verdict is expected to be close.
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I fully endorse Trump if it means it's sabotaging the GOP fascists from the inside lol
Who could've known that an extremist criminal as your leader might cause issues.
That's okay, 3/3 democrats think that Biden is the wrong choice, but here we are.