Posted on 10/31/2018 6:57:27 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
More GOP voters associate with President Trump than they do with the Republican party itself, underscoring the degree to which the president has taken over the party's brand, according to a new poll.
The Harris Poll, conducted with Harvard University’s Center for American Political Studies, found that the GOP is "Trump's party," as 46 percent of Republican registered voters associate with Trump compared to 25 percent who say they associate with GOP itself.
Eighteen percent said they associate with both, and nine percent replied they associate with either.
The Democratic party and GOP approval rating are the same for the first time in a over year at 41 percent, the poll found, after the GOP's approval rating has been trending upward since December.
Trump is a historically unpopular president among the general U.S. population, but consistently retains extremely high levels of Republican support. Recent polls have put him at around a 90 percent approval rating among Republicans.
Over four in ten American voters told Harris Poll pollsters that their midterm vote will be a signal of opposition against the president while over a third said it is a vote of support.
"Today the Republican Party is the party of Trump," pollster Mark Penn told The Hill over email. "He won the nomination for the same reason he dominates over old guard leaders — the voters wanted a disruptor of the status quo and he is that disruptor."
The Harris Poll, conducted online between Oct. 26-28, surveyed 1,835 registered voters. The sample included 1,224 likely voters; that subset of data has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
Trump is now the brand.
Trump IS the GOP.
Boy, these people are real experts!
The Hill is admitting to this?
If it wasn’t for Trump, the GOP would be toast!
The GOP-e needs to be resuscitated and Trumpified, and spin all the way down to the state, county, and local levels. My state, ILL-ANNOY, needs it badly.
The GOP-e needs to be resuscitated and Trumpified, and spin all the way down to the state, county, and local levels. My state, ILL-ANNOY, needs it badly.
This IS very true!
This is the logic of our "mainsteam" media.
Some Dems upset with the socialist agenda and/or the Stalinist mobs?
Losertarians having second thoughts?
Makes sense.
I’m in the MAGA party now. I hate the GOP, the party of bush—the party of rinos and neverTrumpers, with a fargin passion.
That’s because most of the GOP is still not on the side of the citizens and the rule of law.
They have known for years that the citizens wanted the border secured and the laws enforced and have refused to do it.
Worse, some of them openly side with illegal aliens and their employers.
Heller, Alexander, Graham, McCain, Murkowsky, Hoeven, Rubio voted for the last amnesty.
Tillis, Burr, Lankford, Gardner, Cornyn, Cochran, Collins, Sasse, Kennedy, Shelby, Ernst, Blunt, McConnell, Wicker, Portman, Isakson, Johnson, Toomey, Rounds, Thune, Gaines, Barasso and Enzi are all available top vote for the next one if their vote is needed.
If it wasn’t for Trump, the GOP would be toast!
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True that. Imagine a flyweight like Jeb as Pres. He’d be beaten by the MSM like a baby seal.
Republicans who are smart can learn something from him.
I believe most of them are still listening to their pollsters and consultants with their fingers in the wind instead of the people who elected them.
I’ve always been a straight ticket Republican, but after seeing how the GOP closed ranks with the jackasses in response to Trump they are going to have to earn every single one of my votes from now on.
Rubio was the first Republican I ever let go by without my vote, but I sure there will be others to join him.
Good bet Paul Ryan hasn’t seen these results...
“...That’s because most of the GOP is still not on the side of the citizens and the rule of law....”
Exactly. GOPe = RAT = UniParty = Deep State = Communists.
ALL fake Americans.
“Trump is a historically unpopular president among the general U.S. population.”
More fake news. If I’m not mistaken it was Rasmussen or one of the MSM national polls that showed Trump had a higher approval rating going into the midterms than Obama had going into his first midterm election in 2010.
Trump’s got the bigger tent. No room for people like me under the McCain and Romney versions of the party.
This is so dumb. Of course people associate with the President more with the GOP brand. I’m sure if you polled this question during Reagan, Bush, or Nixon you would get the same response.
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