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This New Poll Should Terrify the GOP Establishment
Townhall ^ | 02/21/2021 | Bronson Stocking

Posted on 02/21/2021 12:54:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind

According to a new poll, nearly half of Republicans say they will leave the Republican Party to join a third-party created and led by former President Donald Trump. That doesn't bode well for the Republican establishment. 

The new poll by Suffolk University-USA Today found a whopping 46 percent of Republicans are willing to leave the GOP in order to a join new party created by Donald Trump. Just 27 percent of Republicans said they would stick with the GOP, and the rest are undecided. 

"We feel like Republicans don't fight enough for us, and we all see Donald Trump fighting for us as hard as he can, every single day," said Brandon Keidl, a 27-year-old Republican and small-business owner from Milwaukee. "But then you have establishment Republicans who just agree with establishment Democrats and everything, and they don't ever push back."

No wonder establishment Republicans jumped at the opportunity to disqualify the former president from running for office again. Nearly half of GOP voters are willing to abandon ship to join a new Trump party. 

And Republican voters aren't looking the other way when it comes to GOP lawmakers who supported the failed second impeachment against Trump. Eight in 10 Republicans said they are less likely to vote for a Republican politician who supported impeachment. Ten House GOP members aligned themselves with Democrats to impeach Trump, and seven GOP senators did the same in the Senate. Many of the defecting Republicans are now facing censures and primary challenges back at home. 

The poll also found that a large majority of Republicans aren't overlooking voting irregularities in November's election either. Some 73 percent of Republicans said Biden wasn't legitimately elected president, and most Republicans don't want to see their elected representatives cooperating with a president they consider illegitimate. 

A third party sure sounds like a losing strategy, but so does the Republican establishment. The polls seem to show that a large majority of Republicans simply want someone like Trump to fight for them every day. People are tired of Republicans who seem to only have a spine when it comes to denouncing their fellow Republicans.



TOPICS: Parties; Polls; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: establishment; poll; republicans; thirdparty
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To: deport

I give up explaining that. Too many thick skulls to understand.


81 posted on 02/21/2021 8:16:34 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: ThunderSleeps

You are exactly right... I am voting against incumbents until such an option presents itself.

I am done with Republicans ( who work with democrats against us )


82 posted on 02/21/2021 11:16:42 PM PST by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hell yea and most of the remaining will follow


83 posted on 02/21/2021 11:18:47 PM PST by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
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To: SeekAndFind

Only half?


84 posted on 02/21/2021 11:29:22 PM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: SeekAndFind

With scum like Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and Liz Cheney in leading the republican party there is little difference between the party they want and the democrat party.
I am a small gub mint conservative not a go along get along we all be making money a-hole MAGA, you go Donald.


85 posted on 02/22/2021 3:58:47 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Molon Labe')
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To: SeekAndFind

I am a registered Republican voter for over 60 years.

I will follow Trump where ever he goes...


86 posted on 02/22/2021 7:13:24 AM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: Colo9250
I would say that 46% is a low number. They didn’t poll my house.

Keep reading because it gets better:

Just 27 percent of Republicans said they would stick with the GOP, and the rest are undecided.

So 73% are undecided or new party joiners!!!

87 posted on 02/22/2021 7:17:57 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SeekAndFind
Time for a trade in

GOP:

America First Party:


88 posted on 02/22/2021 7:21:17 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: qaz123

A good start costing nothing,but showing how we all feel is for both Republicans and Democrats to immediately register as independent. The msg, if strong enough will shake both parties to their foundations if enough of us do it. I most certainly will!


89 posted on 02/22/2021 8:30:24 AM PST by pepperdog
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To: qaz123

A good start costing nothing,but showing how we all feel is for both Republicans and Democrats to immediately register as independent. The msg, if strong enough will shake both parties to their foundations if enough of us do it. I most certainly will!


90 posted on 02/22/2021 8:30:35 AM PST by pepperdog
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To: SeekAndFind

Almost everything PDJT tried to do was for the benefit of USA, our defenses, our energy independence, our citizens’ liberties, and jobs for our people.
All of which are of little to zero (to negative) interest to the GOP-e, which only serves itself and the DemoNaziCommie party.

I will try out a new party that seeks the goals that PDJT set forth for us. The GOP-e can GTH as far as I am concerned. It is usually party of the problem, not the solution, and Mitch McConnell’s recent slurs against PDJT were totally unnecessary (as well as, of course, complete DNC lies).


91 posted on 02/22/2021 9:15:55 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: frnewsjunkie

I am very pessimistic for this country and for my grandchildren. We have no real leaders. Trump and Rush have been all we had. That is shown by all the good people appointed by DJT turning on him at the end. All our stalwarts want only to be comfortable in the right now. None have any sense of he future.


92 posted on 02/23/2021 6:41:26 AM PST by ThanhPhero
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To: ThanhPhero

This country has lost 2 important voices.. Trump isn’t lost but removed from where we put him.. they pulled the steal of the century.. totally illegal.. and there was nothing done.. it was accepted even by gop leadership.

we are past being polite across the aisle. they have turned into anti American globalists.. there is no God in their midst.. just more power and control.

they have been testing our resolve with this virus and closing the economy .. jobs gone and families hurting..

I know God is up there... I know He cares ..
It looks bleak.. but Trump has not quit..

if the gop leadership had defended our
President..... but they didn’t... they are afraid of Trump’s power with the people.. and they are afraid of his voters.


93 posted on 02/23/2021 9:50:54 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: BrexitBen

Maybe the GOPe aren’t so scared.

After all a CPAC poll had only 54% supporting President Trump in 2024.

That scares me that our own conservatives are wavering.


94 posted on 02/28/2021 5:43:59 PM PST by Auslander154 ("Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred." Jacques Barzun)
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