Republican Voters Remain Loyal To Trump In First National Poll After Video

Morning Consult ^ | 9 Oct 2016 | MEGHAN MCCARTHY

[mandaladon]

A video of Donald Trump making lewd sexual comments prompted plenty of party stalwarts to abandon the GOP nominee, but Republican voters aren’t ready to leave their man behind: Only 12 percent of Republicans say Trump should drop out of the race.

Overall support for Donald Trump dropped just one point in a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll taken immediately after the 2005 Access Hollywood video leaked. Trump would get 38 percent of the vote if the election were held today, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton would get 42 percent. The poll is the first national survey to test voters’ opinions after the video became public Friday afternoon. A POLITICO/Morning Consult poll taken days earlier on October 5-6 had Trump at 39 percent and Clinton at 41 percent.

Trump’s numbers remained stable thanks to the loyalty of the Republican base, a fact that could give pause to party leaders considering publicly abandoning the nominee. Nearly three-quarters of Republicans say the leaders of the GOP should stand by Trump,

[mandaladon]

Republicans were more than twice as likely as Democrats to say most men talk like Trump in private, 67 percent to 31 percent. Independent voters were split, with 46 percent saying most men talked as Trump did in private.--------------------The are more hypocrites among Democrats...

[ronnie raygun]

The loyal republican base will be coming after the rhino a## first after this election

[Timpanagos1]

You got to remember that it was Billy BUSH that was having a private conversation with Trump.

What is not known is how Billy Bush was able to place a hot microphone on Trump without Trump knowing he was wearing a hot mic.

[Psalm 144]

Eat that, establishment concern trolls.

[SelmaLee]

That name should be repeated into infinity:

Billy BUSH
Billy BUSH
Billy BUSH

Remember when el Jeb said that he would be the nominee, regardless of the outcome of the primaries?

The connection must be made in everyone’s mind.

[hecticskeptic]

The media is horrified that despite their most outrageous efforts, the needle didn’t move. Let’s just pray that Trump deals with this in a way that exposes the media, the democrats and the Paul Ryan republicans for the hypocritical unethical pricks that they are....

[jacob allen]

He is our last best hope for the country. Everyone that can should go to his next rallies.

[God luvs America]

yup- they send me mail asking for money and i send the return reply envelope telling them to F-themselves..

[75thOVI]

Interesting. The people the party supposedly represents are sticking with Trump. Meanwhile, the Party elite who supposedly represent those people, are runnning as fast as they can to hide behind granny Clinton’s skirts.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’m going to sign up on some of their mailing lists just so I can do the same!

[jjotto]

This was part of something for Access Hollywood. Billy Bush had been hosting Trump’s Miss Universe pageant. Not exactly two strangers on a golf course.

[RoseofTexas]

According to townhall there are two more drops on trump to happen...oboy hang on!!

[needmorePaine]

prompted plenty of party stalwarts to abandon the GOP nominee

Party stalwarts are the problem. They didn't abandon him because they weren't with him to begin with. They connived behind closed doors to take him out.

Why would voters abandon him? They flocked to him in the first place because he is not one of the political class.

The more I think about it the more I see how pathetic this "surprise" was. I only hope it galvanizes his support.

[DoughtyOne]

Too funny...

They run this hit campaign and then run polls quick to see if any of it is sticking.

Poor things. No such luck...

[tired&retired]

Here is a YouTube video of Bill Clinton with Hillary on 60 Minutes in 1992..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwXE52e9JFg

This is not a matter of forgiving or trusting Donald Trump.

It is a matter of knowing Hillary is a lying snake who needs a “Public and Private” view vs not liking some of the spots on Donald Trump.

[Boardwalk]

I don’t think I have ever been this pissed off at the Romney Rino’s as I am now! Go Trump and may God keep you strong and make America great again. Let the light shine! Clear out the evil personified in the democrats and rino idiots once and for all!

[PGR88]

Real conservatives know the games the media and the uniparty will play to destroy anyone who goes against their interests.

[Enchante]

Terrific statement in support of Trump and castigating MSM and Democrat lies and hypocrisy!! This needs to go viral. This is the template for what should be a massive counter-attack against the vile MSM and Democrap hypocritical assaults on Trump:

Statement of GOP donors Robert and Rebekah Mercer

Their complete statement is below:

“If Mr. Trump had told Billy Bush, whoever that is, earlier this year that he was for open borders, open trade, and executive actions in pursuit of gun control, we would certainly be rethinking our support for him. If he had admitted to Mr. Bush that he had profited privately by allowing the sale to Russia of 20% of US uranium deposits or that he had amassed his personal fortune not by hard work in the private sector but by selling favors to foreigners on the American taxpayers' dime, we would certainly be rethinking our support for him. If he had argued that he needed both a public and a private position on issues facing the American public, we would certainly be rethinking our support for him. And finally if Trump had serially terrorized and silenced the victims of violent sexual assault whom he feared could damage his political career, we would most definitely be rethinking our support for him.

“Donald Trump's uncensored comments, both old and new, have been echoed and dissected in the media repeatedly in an effort to kindle among his supporters a conflagration of outrage commensurate with the media's own faux outrage. Can anyone really be surprised that Mr. Trump could have said to Mr. Bush such things as he has already admitted saying? No. We are completely indifferent to Mr. Trump's locker room braggadocio.

“The same media that resolutely looked away when the most powerful man in the world, a sitting U.S. president with multiple violent sexual assaults to his credit, snared an impressionable young intern in his web and ruined her life, now expects us to gasp with revulsion at Mr. Trump's irreverent comments. America is finally fed up and disgusted with its political elite. Trump is channeling this disgust and those among the political elite who quake before the boombox of media blather do not appreciate the apocalyptic choice that America faces on November 8th. We have a country to save and there is only one person who can save it. We, and Americans across the country and around the world, stand steadfastly behind Donald J. Trump.”

[WENDLE]

This way a dirty trick to use this to cover Hillary’s million dollar bank speeches calling for open borders and no taxes on imported goods. The media fell for it and the American People don’t care.I think Trump wins Democrat votes big time here!! If Bill can rape and assault women and get blow jobs from an intern in the White House, a man can say “pu$$y” to another man in private . There is absolutely no there there. Go TRUMP. I hope Trump doesn’t “pu$$y out” tonight. She will throw a punch and his counter punch will be be devastating if he just hits her with the absolute truth of her crimes and lies. If the issue is what you say—— she loses big time.This was a cheap rotten trick right out of the gutter— time to fight!!

[OrioleFan]

Shelby Holiday of the WSJ just said on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, “there are voters who will hold their nose and vote for Trump.” I for one don’t have to hold my nose to vote for Trump. Donald Trump says something. Hillary has done it. She defends Bill when he sexually assaults and rapes women. After all the years of Hillary’s invective, the “holier then thou” press is disingenuous. Obama has used all of the words in the same context as Trump did. McCain has. The videos and audio are out there. The kingmakers in the MSM and establishment party are not going to destroy my candidate. I want a serious shakeup in Washington, and a better climate for business, and hence jobs. I want someone to take action on our southern border, and someone to take on gang violence. With the release of Hillary’s wall street speeches, Hillary is not the change agent. Bernie was called a loser - his voters should flock to Trump.