Posted on 04/07/2016 2:38:31 PM PDT by Steelfish
Poll: Hefty Slice Of Virginia’s GOP Will Bolt If Trump Is Nominee
By Laura Vozzella April 7
RICHMOND — Nearly a third of Virginia Republicans will vote for Hillary Clinton, pick a third-party candidate or sit out the election if Donald Trump is the GOP’s nominee for president, a new poll finds.
Democrats in the key swing state are far less likely to defect if Clinton is the nominee, with just 9 percent saying they would vote for someone else or stay home on Election Day, according to a Christopher Newport University survey released Thursday.
Trump’s “loyalty gap,” as CNU researchers dubbed it, could cost the celebrity developer the race in Virginia, where the survey finds the former secretary of state leads Trump 44 percent to 35 percent.
The poll, conducted CNU’s Wason Center for Public Policy, comes just two days after Republicans and Democrats alike expressed dissatisfaction with their parties’ respective front runners by handing Wisconsin primary victories to Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Bernie Sanders.
The CNU poll was designed to see how that intraparty angst would play out in Virginia if Trump and Clinton ultimately face off in the general election.
“We found a real loyalty gap,” Quentin Kidd, director of the Wason Center, said in a written statement. “If Donald Trump turns out to be the Republican nominee, it’s clear that a very significant proportion of Republican voters will either defect or stay home. But it looks like most Democrats — even those who backed Bernie Sanders in the March primary — would support Clinton.”
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A hefty slice of GOP RINOs are nothing but traitors!!
If stories like this are true, I don’t understand why the WP and the rest of the Left aren’t encouraging a Trump candidacy at every opportunity.
Sucks to be the stupid party.
Would that be the Northern beltway GOPe?
They want to see the corrupt status quo remain in Washington. Plain and simple as that. With Hillary it will remain the same.
True Republicans/Conservatives will not do that.
Those in the NoVa region who depend on the government teat.
The GOP is a suicide pact, it seems.
If the media thought for one minute how bad Trump is then they would be promoting him like they did to Romney and McCain, and now cruz.
Right... That’s the new talking point I guess. How many Republicans will bolt if the GOP favorite is the nominee.
Guess how many bolt if Trump is not the nominee?
Why don’t you ask how many Democrats will bolt if Hillary is the nominee. Or how many Democrats will bolt if Sander’s is the nominee.
Some of them may not like Trump, but when it comes to Trump vs Hillary, they will vote Trump.
There aren't really as many of those as I once presumed.
only a MORON would vote for hillary or bernie to begin with...
cut off nose to spite face
S T U P I D
one term of either woud finish the country off
with the cooperation fo the rinos
the country needs an American in the WHITE HOUSE ..
we’ve had 8 years of a traitor
And what fraction will bolt if Trump is NOT the nominee?
The GOPe is spreading lies again, to discourage voters.
GOPe is in bed with the Democrats for a Hillary presidency.
See:
Tech billionaires (major Dem donors) plot with GOP leaders at exclusive island resort to stop Trump
They see their gravy train coming to an end and they would lose their job, thus have to move and get a real job.
The untold story is the number of Democrats who will not vote for Hillary if she is the nominee, but are saying they will support Trump instead in such an eventuality.
Trump will lose the RINOs and gain the anti-establishment vote from each party, including the Unions and independents.
40% will bolt if Cruz and his GOPe buddies get their way.
I would support a Trump 3rd parry very soon.
Apparently, they polled Republicans with government jobs only.
But when many of the rank-and-file stayed home because the nominee was Romney, those ‘purists’ got blamed for the Romney loss and were hammered one way or another for the next several years.
But all those jerks have nothing to say when the Establishment sellouts threaten to ‘bolt’ if Donald J. gets the nomination.
GOPe is also the GOPh, as in Republican hypocrites.
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