Posted on 01/27/2021 3:31:56 PM PST by Hojczyk
A majority of GOP voters support the prospect of former President Trump forming a new party, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Tuesday found.
The survey, taken January 21 and 24, 2021, among 1,000 likely U.S. voters told respondents, “Former President Trump has suggested he may start a third party. Is this a good idea or a bad idea?”
While a plurality of likely voters, or 45 percent, believe it is a bad idea, a majority of GOP voters, or 53 percent, consider it a good idea, as do 41 percent of those surveyed overall. The survey coincides with rumors of the former president considering forging a new political party outside of the current Republican Party — a rumor which Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Ronna McDaniel has vehemently denied.
“I’ve talked to the president [Trump]. I’ve talked to others around the president, who are talking to him every day. He’s not going to start a third party,” McDaniel told Fox News on Tuesday.
Thirty percent of Republicans said that it would be a bad idea for Trump to start another party, and 17 percent said they remained unsure. Those outside of either major party remain virtually split in opinion, with 43 percent expressing the belief that it would be a good idea for Trump to form another party and 42 percent indicating otherwise. Sixteen percent remain unsure.
The survey also asked respondents, “If former President Trump started a third party, would you consider the Trump party better or worse than the Republican Party, or about the same?” A plurality said they would consider it to be “worse,” followed by 34 percent who said “better,” 17 percent who said “about the same,” and six percent who said they were not sure.
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Why? he controls the Republican party. This makes zero sense.
Need to clean out GOP leadership or start a new party..
The GOP machine is beyond broken. And any new party structure would need to be wise about old-guard “infiltraitors”
How does Trump control the GOP...the GOP wants him gone
Don’t believe it....With 75,000,000 known followers, why would he do that? Fake news...just to keep the pot boiling...aka...slow news day.
The hell he does.
Remind me where all his support was during the election cycle
investigations?
They piled on him something fierce, or remained mum.
And when we look back at the House and Senate support, it
was non-existent.
He had to pry every singly thing out of them, even when we
had the majority.
The RP is over!
Turn out the lights, when you exit...
Republicans are like battered housewives who can’t leave their abusive husbands.
Far from fake. Time to start over with a new party.
Thats stupid. Dems would love that. Republicans are on every ballot. A new party would be on a third of the ballots and they would split the ticket everywhere.
Take over the republican party. Vote the RINOs out. If you can’t do that, then you certainly can’t create your own party.
They’re globalists, Jim, they’ll never be American again ...
Go for it! The GOP has willed itself into irrelevance.
The GOP will never represent MAGA, they are opposed to MAGA.
They have been working for 30 years to Make America North Mexico.
Far from fake. Time to start over with a new party.
Give him until Dec. 31 to make the call. By the 2022 primaries it should be settled.
He controls the party?
Then how did they collude with Democrats to cheat him out of office?
Have you been living under a rock? The Bush Crime Family controls the GOP.
This is Stupidity. Conservatives just need to take control.
You are advocating we do the same thing that we have been trying to do for 50 years without result. GOP is not reformable, it needs to die.
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