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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Yes, they want to blame Trump at home and scratch out the win one way or another then go happily back to D.C. to “work with” Hillary.
Scum.
1) If Trump is **not** the nominee, the number of Trump followers who will not vote for anyone else, even against Hillary; and
2) If Trump **is** the nominee, the number of voters all across the country who cannot bring themselves to vote for Trump, even against Hillary.
The question is, which group would be larger?
” 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 GOPe has destroyed themselves by attacking Trump. What party turns on their frontrunner? These people are idiots.
Well stated.
Many in my family have already changed to Independent.
We are a very conservative family.
And are tired of the establishment.
Ready to stand with any group that will help us to form a Conservative Independent Party.
I am 81 and won’t be much help but will do what I can.
I am so fed up with the likes of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
I think it’s too late for him to get on the ballot in a 3rd party in some states.
I’ll just write him in if he doesn’t get the nomination. IF Cruz had acted ethically, I’d vote for him. But not now.
Ken Blackwell (yes, that Ken Blackwell) said as much a few days ago. In their fantasy world, everyone will come together because Hillary is so horrible. Like they came together in 2012 because a second Obama term was too horrible? Riiiight.
“Lies, Ted has won 4 whole primaries where people can go and actually vote, I’m sure he would do just as good in the general”
All polls I have seen say that Trump loses outright to Clinton. And Cruz has a bit of an edge on her. Can Trump supporters not see that the crossovers in voting were so Hillary would BEAT the snot out of Trump in the general elections? I feel a bit sorry for them if they fell for this bit of tripe
I seriously doubt that. A lot of them seem to be former Rubio supporters.
with a third of your base not voting, Cruz would lose by 15 percent or more.
Better to roll the die with trump and see if he can somehow turn back the tide of women against him in the next six months.
we need to keep an eye on shady Bernie
Check the head to heads lately? Cruz loses, too.
Oh, and Trump’s terrible, horrible, very bad unfavorables? Cruz is at 59% unfavorable, and climbing.
The caucuses are different. Candidates can bully, lie, sway people to vote for them AS THE VOTING OCCURS! That’s just asking for fraud. Cruz proved in Iowa he was willing to intimidate voters (the threatening mailer) and lie (Ben Carson leaving the race).
He’s hardly the principled conservative he pretends. And I supported him at one time. Now, I doubt everything he says - if he’s even against amnesty. He lies awfully easily. And with no conscience.
Blocking Mr. Trump will cause the GOP nominee to lose between 30 and 40 states, plus loss of the Senate. An yuuge disaster.
Nominating Mr. Trump will cause the GOP nominee to lose between 40 and 50 states, plus loss of both the Senate and House. Yuuge disaster squared.
But ironically, the latter course just might turn out to be better for the long-run health of true conservatism, because it might have the potential to obliterate Trumpisticism once and for all.
Still, either outcome is perhaps too gruesome to contemplate.
It would probably be close. What’s funny is the Trump supporters who say the GOPe wants Hillary to win, and at the same time say they’ll refuse to vote for the non-Trump GOP candidate, which then would result in a Hillary win.
And this boys and girls is why you should never smoke crack.
The only thing that the Republican Party had going for it was a belief that it was the 'pubs who played by the rules and supported traditional and constitutional values. If Trump doesn't get the nomination, they have NOTHING, except for the elite preserving their turf and enhancing their wealth at the expense of the little folk.
The elite of the Republican Party can't even say with a straight face anymore to vote for "the lesser of two evils".
If Trump and his supporters are denied, he should go third party and seek donations. There's a plurality in a lot of states that are "mad as hell".
The RNC/GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Cheap Labor Express.
Their purpose is to block the citizens from electing a President who would stop them from flooding the country with fraudulently documented foreigners.
They do not care if they lose the White House.
They only care about blocking the citizens from keeping the rule of law and our country.
It may result in something completely new:
Kamikaze Voter
Every Democrat for every office in every election until there is no more GOP.
Then maybe the citizens will have a chance to be represented by a new party.
>> the best thing Trump could do is run as a third party candidate <<
He probably wouldn’t have the money.
Even now, it looks as if maybe Mr. Trump needs to use part of the “veterans” donations he received back in February to keep his campaign liquid. And he’s surely not going to sell or mortgage his real estate holdings to finance a losing 3rd party race.
No one’s “blocking” Trump from anything. The same rules apply to him as to everyone else. I know the Trump Humpers don’t like that. But stomping their feet and complaining about how unfair it is won’t change anything.
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