Posted on 12/20/2023 1:24:39 PM PST by Reno89519
Almost a quarter of former President Donald Trump's supporters said he should not become the Republican presidential nominee in 2024 if he is convicted of a crime, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll.
The poll released on Wednesday showed that 24% of Republican voters who would vote for Trump next year said that "even if he has won the most votes in the primary," if he is convicted, Trump should not become the GOP's standard-bearer.
Trump faces 91 indictments across four criminal cases and is in the middle of a $250 million New York civil fraud trial. And on Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled he should not appear on the state's presidential primary ballot, citing Trump's violation of the 14th Amendment, which bars anyone who has incited an insurrection from office. The former president will spend some time in the primary nominating contests in court as he battles the charges.
Despite the legal baggage, Trump remains the leader of the Republican primary field by double digits. Trump has painted himself as the victim of the "weaponization" of the Department of Justice and FBI, calling on his party to support him against the "deep state." And to a large extent, it has worked.
An overwhelming majority of Trump supporters surveyed, 70%, said he should be the GOP nominee if he "won the most votes in the primary, even if he is convicted of a crime." And 84% of his supporters said the charges against him "are mostly politically motivated," while 12% said he was "charged mostly because prosecutors believed he committed crimes."
However, the poll indicates there is some limit to Trump's advantageous lead. Two of the four criminal cases Trump faces are related to his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. While 72% of his supporters said he should not be sentenced to prison if convicted, 20% of his supporters said he should be sentenced if convicted. Another 23% of his supporters said he committed "serious federal crimes."
Trump's legal drama could cost him enough votes to ensure a second loss in 2024 if he were to get the nomination.
A set of New York Times/Siena College polls last month showed Trump losing around 6% of voters to President Joe Biden across five battleground states that could decide the fate of the presidency — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.
But Trump's allies have repeatedly signaled they will not abandon him if he were convicted.
"I've been traveling all over the country for his campaign," said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), one of Trump's staunchest defenders. "Everyone is solidly supporting him. The only theory that exists about that garbage is up here in this stupid city. He's going to blow away the primary whether he's sitting in a jail cell or not. Everybody hates this government, they think it's a bunch of communist bulls***, and he's going to win the general [election]."
I like his many,many huge accomplishments a lot better than some of his statements.
Yes, but 40,000 votes would have given a different result. Yet, Trump did not pay for full recounts, he relied on drunk has-been Guiliani and a bunch of crack-pot attorneys instead of paying for good attorneys. And, yes, the Republican party didn’t step up to help either. Here in Nevada I was a Republican and Trump precinct observer, I observed and reported issues, illegality at the polling place, no one cared, no one followed up.
Don’t care - I’m voting for Trump even with a write-in. I’m not voting for these milquetoast rinos ever again.
Oh BS. Stop drinking the kool-aid.
If you think DeSantis or Nikki Haley is going to “save” the country you’re blatantly wrong.
I’m probably one of the more solid supporters of Trump here on FR and I don’t recall ever viciously attacking you. I am passionate in my beliefs and even more in my utter contempt for the Rinos that make up your Party leadership. The Uni Party of course is thrilled. Perhaps this is what you are referring to?
What’s the % if you subtract out Christie, Romney, Kinzinger. Cheney and the Bushies?
You can start with the man in the mirror.
BTW - while you’re here earning your keep for shilling have you donated to the freepathon so you can keep your grift going?
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What do you mean WE
You’ve have an awful time of it with your losses. I wish you the best going forward.
We are headed for civil conflict eregardless.
I think Trump said on several occasions that the Dems were going to steal the 2020 election. So the decision was made to let them do it and have space force catch it in real time. I would I’m that’s the irrefutable evidence Trump plans to bring forward in March at the Jack Smith trial.
Can’t wait to vote TRUMP - especially if he is convicted or jailed.
You nailed it. Nice!
ALL great marketing works this way bro.
He insults Republican governors
Deservedly so.
demands fealty
I don't see a problem with
and plays the narcissist drama queen martyr
No, that is your opinion only reno
And supporters?
Glorious deplorables! Magadonians!
Consider here on FR as an example, several Freepers miss no opportunity to repeatedly trash DeSantis,
Deservedly so. $200 million squandered for what??
prop up illegible Ramaswamy
Rare.
or Haley
Rarer! Trump keeps his core support but no one else.
The polling says the opposite over many weeks and months.
“…A fractured party…”
Screw “the party”, we don’t like Republicans either.
Actually, far more have moved on from single-digit DeSantis — which is obviously true from the downward trajectory of his support. There isn't a single day since announcing that Ron had more support than the day before.
MAGA voters know there are only two people running that follow this agenda.
RDS clearly is not one of them. Neither is Haley or the whale. It's clear now that RDS is a fraud, a pretender to the MAGA mantel, and most MAGA voters know that. Those who hope for another to take the place of DT aren't going to abandon him, and at this point would never follow RDS.
The biggest question to me is why you don't understand this. I think the answer is an obvious one, an answer that doesn't make you, and so many other traitorous RINOs look very good.
>>”Add to this, Trump rallies his core base, but alienates others.”
That particular line of foolishness outshines all the others. It’s definitely not based on an objective view of the facts. Trump is beating Biden, head to head, in poll after poll. He rarely outpolled Clinton in 2016 and yet, still won. Trump’s virtually even among Hispanics and polling at levels among Blacks that we haven’t seen from a Republican in 50 years or more. Trump’s gains among these groups far outweigh the supposed alienation of voters you cite.
At this point, anyone who finds Trump’s style off-putting, likely already felt that way prior to this election. If they decided to hold their noses and vote for him the last two elections, they’re even more likely to do so this time. If they didn’t vote for him in the past, he’s not losing them. They were already lost. And yet many of them are taking a second look at Trump and deciding his style and rhetoric weren’t so bad when weighed against Biden’s dismal record.
Moving on to other points, you continue to treat Trump’s “mistreatment” of DeSantis as somehow relevant. Nobody except his small band of sycophants cares about that. DeSantis is irrelevant. Whether he survives politically or doesn’t is inconsequential to the grand scheme of things. What matters, is getting someone into the presidency who can dismantle the administrative state. There’s only one candidate running who can do that, and it’s not DeSantis.
Your argument that the lawfare aimed at Trump is a reason to vote for DeSantis is just an excuse for you to surrender. The rest of us will support Trump because he’s the only candidate worth fighting for.
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