• Nearly half of Trump voters would leave GOP for Trump party, poll finds

    From slider@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 06:08:08
    From: slider@anashram.com

    (NEXSTAR) – A poll of Trump voters from past elections found that almost
    half of the former president’s supporters would drop the Republican Party
    for Trump if he created his own party.

    Forty-six percent would switch their loyalty to a Trump third party, with
    27% voting Republican and another 27% undecided, according to a Suffolk University/USA Today poll released Sunday.

    https://www.dailypostusa.com/2021/02/23/nearly-half-of-trump-voters-would-leave-gop-for-trump-party-poll-finds/

    Despite losing his re-election bid and his social media channels, the poll shows the political cache that Trump still wields and the potential
    influence he could have on elections in 2022 and 2024.

    “These voters more than identify with Donald Trump,” said David
    Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. “They feel like they are part of him. Many of these voters feel no real connection to government or Washington, D.C. but they are still very
    connected to Trump.”

    When asked about loyalty, 54% said they were loyal to Trump himself, with
    just 34% loyal to the Republican Party.

    The poll also found that a majority of Trump voters still believe in false conspiracies like Antifa allegedly orchestrating the Jan. 6 mob attack on
    the U.S. Capitol (58%), and the Trump-supported claim that President Biden wasn’t elected legitimately (73%).

    In what appears to be a bad sign for Biden’s chances of uniting a sharply-polarized electorate, only six percent of Trump supporters support
    the job Biden has done so far.

    There has also been a sizable shift when it comes to preferred news
    sources among Trump voters. While 58% named Fox News as their most trusted provider in 2016, four years later that number has fallen to 34% among the
    same voters. In 2016, the nascent Newsmax (17%) and One America News
    Network (9%) were barely four years old and weren’t offered as options.

    ### - on the basis that the 'world' is always slightly better off under a left-wing US government, the best thing that could possibly happen now was
    if trumpy-dumpty formed his own competing party out of spite just in order
    to teach the gop a lesson haha... coz that would effectively split the
    minority right-wing vote in half and then neither right-wing party(s)
    would be able to muster enough votes on their own to win an election for
    maybe as much as a decade or possibly longer?

    and then, even if/when dumpty's party eventually became the main
    right-wing party (if it ever did i mean, coz that's doubtful anyway) the
    left 'still' has all the numbers on their side to just crush them, see?

    iow: he does that and there might not be a right-wing party in-office in
    the US for maybe a whole generation lol :)))

    cool + fingers crossed heh, coz 'innovation/change' only ever comes from
    the left :)

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