POLL: Half Of GOP Voters Don’t Want Trump Back

The New York Times reports:

By focusing on political payback inside his party instead of tending to wounds opened by his alarming attempts to cling to power after his 2020 defeat, Mr. Trump appears to have only deepened fault lines among Republicans during his yearlong revenge tour.

A clear majority of primary voters under 35 years old, 64 percent, as well as 65 percent of those with at least a college degree — a leading indicator of political preferences inside the donor class — told pollsters they would vote against Mr. Trump in a presidential primary.

Overall, Mr. Trump maintains his primacy in the party: In a hypothetical matchup against five other potential Republican presidential rivals, 49 percent of primary voters said they would support him for a third nomination.

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Donald Trump’s quest to consolidate support among Republicans has instead left him weakened, with nearly half the party’s voters seeking someone different for president and a significant number vowing to abandon him if he wins the nomination.https://t.co/PyZIpQbKii

— Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) July 12, 2022