One in five Republicans said Trump “threatened American democracy” with his actions on January 6, according to the New York Times/Siena College poll.
Nearly half of all Republican primary voters want a candidate other than former President Donald Trump as president in 2024, according to a New York Times/Siena College p
released on Tuesday, the latest sign the former president’s grip on the Republican party may be slipping as the January 6 committee continues to spotlight bombshell revelations about Trump’s actions during the Capitol riots.Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reservedNearly two-thirds of Republican voters under 35 as well as adults with at least a college degree said they would not vote for Trump in a presidential primary, according to the poll, which was conducted from July 5 to 7.
Roughly 16% of GOP voters said they would support Democratic President Joe Biden, a third party candidate or would abstain from voting altogether if Trump were the Republican nominee, in what would be a jump from 2020, when 9% of Republicans voted for a candidate besides Trump,Some 20% of Republicans believe Trump’s behavior on January 6 threatened American democracy, while three-fourths of GOP voters said Trump was “just exercising his right to contest the election.
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis came in second place behind Trump in a potential primary match-up, with a quarter of Republican voters saying they would vote for him in 2024. DeSantis was the No. 1 pick for younger and college-educated GOP voters and Republicans who voted for Biden in the last presidential election.Monday Trump was too old to run in 2024 and said he should “hang up his hat & sail into the sunset.” His series of tweets came after the former president called the tech billionaire “just another bullshit artist” for endorsing Trump’s opponents in past elections and trying to terminate his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter.
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