Majority of Republicans want Donald Trump to remain party leader following second impeachment acquittal

Even the second impeachment trial against him does not appear to have undermined Donald Trump’s popularity with members of the Republican Party.. According to various polls published this week, The mogul continues to have majority support among supporters of the current opposition, and with a very wide margin over other potential candidates in the 2024 presidential elections.

The brutal division the Republican Party faces over how to deal with the controversial former president was exposed during the impeachment trial that ended last weekend, after 10 members of the House of Representatives and 7 senators voted in favor of condemning him. And while some members – even more than those who have spoken out against him – assure it is time to turn the page, Trump has hinted at a possible political future that could include his desire to run again in the next election. .

Polls

A Quinnipiac University study was released Monday that placed Trump’s support at three-quarters of those affiliated with the Republican Party: the 75% who want the former president to continue to play a leading role comfortably beat the 21 who would like someone else to take the leadership position.

Meanwhile, 60% of all Americans said they did not want Trump to play a major role in the Republican Party again, including 96% of Democrats and 61% of Independents.

Most respondents, 55% also said the former president should not be allowed to hold office in the future. On the same topic, 87% of Republicans said they should be eligible for elected office.

“It may be in decline, but it certainly hasn’t fallen out of favor with the Republican Party. Twice indicted, vilified by the impeached Democrats and almost silenced on social networks … despite everything, Donald Trump maintains a strong position within the Party, “said Tim Malloy, poll analyst at Quinnipiac University in a press release quoted by American newspapers.

The Quinnipiac University survey interviewed 1,056 adults from February 11 to 14 with a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

For its part, an overview of the chain CNBC conducted in the days preceding the political trial of the former president concluded that a Most Republicans want him to remain leader of their party, but most Americans want him out of politics.

The economic study of CNBC All-America shows that the 54% of Americans want Trump “to get out of politics altogether.” This was the sentiment of 81% of Democrats and 47% of Independents, but only 26% of Republicans.

As for Republicans, 74% want him to stay active in one way or another, including 48% who want him to continue leading the Republican Party, 11% who want him to form a third party and 12% who say he should remain active in politics but not at the head of a party.

“If we are talking about the future of Donald Trump, now the poll shows that he still has this strong central support within his own party that he really wants him to continue being their leader ”said Jay Campbell, Hart Research partner and Democratic pollster of the poll.

But Micah Roberts, the Republican poll’s pollster and partner at Public Opinion Strategies, pointed to the change since Trump was president. Polls before the election regularly showed Trump with a Republican approval rating of around 90%, which means some of his supporters have been disappointed with the events of the past few months.

The survey was conducted online among 1,000 Americans nationwide and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5%.

Finally, a Politico-Morning Consult poll released Tuesday, three days after Trump’s acquittal of the “incitement to insurgency” charges, found that among Republican voters, thl 59% said they wanted Trump to play a leading role in their party. Also, a slightly smaller number, the 54% said they would support Trump in the primaries if they were held today.

Mike Pence, whose life was in danger during the Jan.6 episodes on Capitol Hill as he presided over the ratification of the Electoral College results in his role as vice president, obtained 12% of the votes in the Politico-Morning Consult pollaway from Trump.

Donald Trump Jr. shared third place, with 6%, with Nikki Haley, who has repeatedly tried to distance herself from Trump since the Capitol riots.

“We have to admit he let us down”, Haley told US media shortly after the attack. “He took a path he shouldn’t have taken, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we cannot allow that to happen again, ”he said.

Mitt Romney, a 2012 Republican nominee and now a senator from Utah who twice voted to convict Trump in impeachment trials, got 4% in the new poll. Ted Cruz of Texas, one of the senators who backed Trump’s attempt to reverse his electoral defeat, got 3%.

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