Posted on 12/05/2017 4:05:07 PM PST by Hadean
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump continues to enjoy robust support within the Republican Party, but about a third of his own political partisans still say they would prefer a different Republican at the top of the ticket in 2020, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute.
Three in ten Republicans — 31 percent — say that they’d like to see a different GOP nominee in the next presidential election, while 63 percent say they’re happy with the current president running for reelection as the party’s standard-bearer.
While Trump’s support for reelection is solid among those who backed his 2016 run, he has done little to assuage the concerns of Republicans who supported one of his opponents during the 2016 GOP primary. Among Republicans who didn’t back Trump’s primary run, 60 percent say they would prefer to replace him on the ballot for 2020, while just 34 percent want him to be the nominee.
The new survey finds that Trump’s stalwart base — those who backed him during the 2016 primary and support his reelection — stands at about 40 percent of Americans who identify with or lean toward the GOP. About 18 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents declined to support Trump in 2016 or for the 2020 primary contest.
The divide appears to map onto the strength of those partisans’ level of attachment to the GOP. About three-quarters of self-described “strong” Republicans want Trump to be the nominee in 2020, compared to only 42 percent of Republicans who are not strongly attached to the party.
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Well if NBC says so, it must be true.
And 69% do not.
Yeah, the 30% that voted for Romney in the Republican primaries. They’re moderate pantywaists!
Yeah, sure, NBC.
....and 70 percent don’t. 100 percent of NBC News does, so they wrote the story.
There are no Republicans outside of Trump.
He’s the only one.
Sure they do........
The MSM has lost their minds.
So that means almost 70% don’t want a different nominee?
It all depends on how you report it.
NOTHING BUT CRAP=NBC!!!
Any Republican hoping to take on Trump in a fair fight in 2020 is MORE THAN WELCOME to try.
Me, I'll hold off until Brian Williams confirms, and Brian Ross verifies it at ABC.
Hmmmmm?
I wonder what percentage of Republicans wanted a different candidate in 2016?
I suspect you might have gotten similar numbers in 2004, and even more in 1992! Heck, even in 1984 there were Republicans who wanted a Rockefeller/Weicker/Packwood type, that’s how we GOT Rockefeller, Packwood and Weicker!
As far as liberals are concerned, 31% is considered a majority.
Fake news gets funnier and funnier everyday!
Yes, and probably a number of those voted for Egg McMuffin last year. Wouldn’t be surprised that at about this time in 1981, there were probably those who’d have wanted Reagan replaced by GHWB or even Jerry Ford as the nominee for ‘84.
LOL. Just three years to go. I can’t ever remember a similar poll for anyone of either party who was in their first year of office. It is part of the TDS insanity.
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