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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What you “see” and what actually “is” are two very different things. Just like suppositions of event outcomes not yet joined.
Trust how you will, but when the Cruz-Hillary contest is concluded, you will be here blaming those doggone Trump supporters for walking out and making YOU lose your choice for the election. All the while Cruz supporters adamantly demeaning, discounting and marginalizing other Americans’ thoughts and wants of something different and against the idea of the established Uniparty. Good luck with all that.
This is getting real, now that Senators actual jobs are being threatened by voters that stay home on Election Day. Is stopping Trump worth your seat? Lindsey must be speaking out because he is safe this election.
“Here’s another headline for you. “Nominating Trump Could Hurt Republicans in Election”. Trump loses to both Clinton and Sanders so why does nominating someone besides Trump hurt republicans”.
Ted stands NO chance in Florida, Ohio or NY, Ted Loses
I have yet to see a Cruz supporter “adamantly demeaning, discounting and marginalizing other Americans’ thoughts and wants....”
He's a lawyer, and that is what lawyers are trained to do. Their goal is to win the case, not reveal the truth.
I think it is more likely that those who claim they could never vote for Trump will, at the moment of truth, give in and vote for him over Hillary. IOW they may be, to some degree, posturing to support their position. I feel it is much more likely that burned Trump supporters will retain that emotion through the election. ymmv
If Trump goes into the Convention 500 delegates and 2,800,000 votes ahead of everyone, and they deny him the nomination, I not only don’t vote in this election, to screw the Republican party, I vote for the Democrat nominee, and a straight Democrat ticket.
Ken Blackwell is delutional.
“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.”
Oh, I agree completely. Both are terrible candidates. It appears the voters in the GOP primaries are determined to have Hillary or Sanders as their candidate. Amazingly, only 12% of those in the Wisconsin exit poll choose ‘someone who can win’ as their primary reason to support a candidate. That was behind ‘someone who tells it like it is’. Who cares if someone ‘tells it like it is’ if that someone is a loser?
We have the most winnable presidential election in the history of the world and we appear to be determined to screw it up. I certainly hope we enjoy “Madam President’.
No thanks!
If the rules, known only to the inner apparatchik of the state level GOPe, are perceived by Joe Six-Pack to be unfair against Trump & his voters, the GOPe will be forever damaged. I realize many are fine with that notion, but the nation will not recover from the Supreme Court nominees that will be added by Hillary. Only a Trump/Cruz ticket, as remote as that seems, can win the day for the Rs.
Then you just aren’t looking or you refuse to see in your bias. Go away.
Used as a stalking horse by the GOPe.
A dark horse as a presidential candidate.
And now, a talking horse, the famous Mr. Ted.
Glad to hear that!
There were videos in Iowa that showed the candidates’ workers going from person to person, plus the mailer we all saw here on FR.
Maybe Kansas reins in that sort of behavior. That would be smart because - always being from a primary state - I had no idea a free-for-all like that could even happen in this country. It just seemed wrong.
Only 25% of Bernie supporters say they will stay home. Hillary wins.
The sad thing is that this WAS a winnable election. Hillary is a weak candidate. Once again, the republicans are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s almost like they don’t care if they win. Hmmm...
Aye!
I guess you don’t spend much time on FR then.
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