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34% is a big number. The question would be, what happens to those people if Trump is the nominee? Do they suck it up or sit home on their hands?

Trump is carving out a new political coalition made up of conservatives (most of them), political independents, common-sense main street republicans, and disaffected Democrats. Left out of this coalition are country club republicans, neoconservative foreign-policy adventurers, Chamber of Commerce no-borders types, and a small segment of social-issues-only conservatives. In the process, by eliminating the groups that are actually less conservative, he is creating a coalition that is both more conservative than the Republican party, and at the same time has much broader appeal.

I fully expect those republicans who will suddenly find themselves marginalized (neo-cons, CoC types, etc.) to sit out the general election, or to vote for Hillary (since she actually would be closer to most of them than Trump is). But I don't think they constitute 34%. I think a significant chunk of that 34% is merely put off by Trump's personality, and they will hold their noses come the general election.

It’s definitely the personality. I know a few people that were ready to vote for him that will now vote Hillary or sit it out. They were just aching to find someone besides Hillary to vote for.