Posted on 04/09/2016 7:37:35 AM PDT by mandaladon
(Reuters) - A third of Republican voters who support Donald Trump could turn their backs on their party in November's presidential election if he is denied the nomination in a contested convention, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The results are bad news for Trump's rivals as well as party elites opposed to the real estate billionaire, suggesting that an alternative Republican nominee for the Nov. 8 presidential race would have a tougher road against the Democrats.
"If it’s a close election, this is devastating news" for the Republicans, said Donald Green, an expert on election turnout at Columbia University.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted March 30 to April 8 asked Trump’s Republican supporters two questions: if Trump wins the most delegates in the primaries but loses the nomination, what would they do on Election Day, and how would it impact their relationship with the Republican Party?
Sixty-six percent said they would vote for the candidate who eventually wins the nomination, while the remaining third were split between a number of alternatives such as not voting, supporting a third-party candidate, and switching parties and voting for the Democratic nominee.
Meanwhile, 58 percent said they would remain with the Republican Party. Another 16 percent said they would leave it, and 26 percent said they did not know what they would do with their registration. The online poll of 468 Republican Trump supporters has a credibility interval of 5.3 percentage points.
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Don’t feed the trolls anymore, soon you will be called a noob and paid shill. The GOP is already a dead man walking, just a matter of time when the switch is flicked. Save your breath.
We shall see.
There will be the primaries coming up in the northeast, which could very well end up being a blow-out for Trump.
Won’t it though???
I sure hope it does...Go Trump....
Really who’d have guessed?
Understood.
Of course they can be that stupid.....They have proved that the last 25 years....
I guess it’s probably even worse than that. Are they even factoring in a lot of us who general vote Republican but have left the party affiliation? This poll only covered registered Republicans.
.....Or a “historical first”, that Trump could very well get in.
The Republican party is giving Donald Trump every reason to run as a third party. I hope it doesn’t come to that. But it may.
And you know this...how?
Cruz Core Math.
Yep. We're doomed no matter what. The Democrats are hobbled with Hillary as their standard-bearer and in an election when practically anyone should've been able to soundly wallop her, we've managed to rally behind the only two candidates who can't.
The same polling that guaranteed a second Carter term? Those polls?
It doesn't matter. It's no longer about winning. It's about leaving the GOP in smoldering ruins.
Sorry to say I think I’d be one of them. Been a long time party member, precinct chairman, state convention delegate, all-round schlepper, but I’ll be damned if I’ll vote for someone who the ‘party leaders’ install in lieu of someone who joined the primary fray and won state after state ... all because they are afraid he will upend their little self-serving game. If that means Clinton Criminal 2, I guess I’ll have to live with that result.
“But, but, but the polls said....”
Words from the UNIPARTY after the election....
This "true conservatism" of which you speak...where is it to be found?
You true adherents to Conservative, Inc...you just don't get it.
Trump is not the cause, Trump is a symptom of the cause...and the cause isn't going anywhere, regardless of the fortunes of Trump.
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